Entries from January 2006 ↓

Using her Christmas money from Gram, we ordered a ballino for Linnaea. It arrived today. She likes it. I love it. It makes the very best “clack” sound ever. It’s about the size of a baseball, so it fits in one (adult) hand quite well. It’s made of wood pieces strung together on two taut elastic cords. Between each of the disks is a bead the diameter of which is slightly less greater than the diameter of the holes in the disks. The result of all this is that the disks move freely but stay where you put them. It’s lovely.

I’m curious to see how long Pater will let me keep it after he gets home. The clacking is probably not so satisfying if someone else is doing it. Moreover, I tend to be easily entertained, which means I could play with this thing forever. Oh, and it’s not my toy…

>_< This biting thing is getting old fast. How does a nice bowl of mashed peas sound? Yum!

This has nothing to do with the ostensible focus of Bubblesplat. I simply must pass along a great blonde joke.

We tried carrots today. She ate a couple of spoonfuls without problem.

Then she started making faces. Faces that indicated to me that I had insulted her dignity by daring to put such a substance in her inoffensive little mouth.

Foolish, I attempted to continue feeding her the hateful mash. I’d get the orange stuff in, she’d stick out her tongue and cough in an apparent attempt to expel the pulpy, runny mess without accidentally swallowing any of it.

She won the battle, yes…