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Tag Archives: birthday
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I got older today! “You get older everyday” a wee baby coworker pointed out Friday….
erm.
Search your memory-buckets now… who is the very best birthday girl ever??
PIPPI!, right? Remember how great she was about birthdays?? EVERYBODY got presents! Pluttification be damned!
Today, I would give you the happiness that these songs have been giving me. 
Sort of an all-sizes gift. Maybe one will make you smile.
Button Cake
This happened while I was napping today. What do you think happens to you if you eat the Coraline cake?
I’m scared.
6
How?
How can it be that my little Buddah girl has turned into Cato??
I need to make a film– this is what she and papa are like these days– It’s awesome. She sneak attacks him.
Well, for one thing, she’s SIX. Yes, SIX. 6.
Really, it cannot be…
Yesterday
And the day before
How does that even make sense?? It DOESN’T, that’s what!!
There was a GIANT HAMSTER CAKE– Jim said he that he just never knew that hamsters were so delicious!
There were Pirates. Lots and lots of Pirates. Big ones and little ones.
There was a really wonderful sushi dinner with Memom at Kyodai Rotating Sushi Bar.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a plate of sushi at a rotating sushi bar??
Memom and Marigold tucking in. Memom also taught Rosie a mean game of Go Fish ( GOLDFISH). We are sending her to Vegas soon to earn money for college. She beats everyone. I am pretty sure she cheats. For one thing, she confuses you by calling Octopi, KRAKEN! Who can beat that kind of card-shark?
Marble soda. Like a Japanese cream soda with a glass marble in it. Strange but real. Makes your eyes glow RED.
BIg and S-I-X.
6.
Tune in next for ALL KNITTING THINGS GNOME!
Simultaneous contrast and Visionary Art
So we had the birth and the half-birth day. I just want to show you the cakes we ate to celebrate. ‘
See if you can figure out whose is whose.
and
There was fairie princess world-for-a-day, and then, um, Friday-the-13th birthday turns into Saturday’s The Unfortunate Party with a few friends from school. Tiki torches. Cookies shaped like real LADY FINGERS ( pegaloo of course) Voodoo-baby-esque dolls ( thanks to Aunty Matryoshka’s brilliance) and death-by-chocolate flourless torte with shrunken heads. y.u.m. The day was masterfully pulled together by Jim, said Pegaloo and Carol– Thanks from the bottom of my Davey Jones Heart. I just sat around winding string dolls.
All were happy. That’s what counts right?
Today
It’s finally Summer Veecation as Rosie calls it. I have lost track of what day of the week it is– mostly because we have been so b.u.s.y. I am hoping next week to settle in to a sort of groove where we work on things we want to create, experience and accomplish –balanced with a good healthy dose of summertime serendipitous spontaneity. We couldn’t really keep it all together otherwise.
Grandparents are visiting from a plane ride away. For an adventure today, we had a pilgrimage down to the American Visionary Art Museum. My favorite museum EH-VAH!– and one of the gems of Baltimore that makes me happy to be right here now.
I get sooooo inspired there. Just crazy. I am a nut for mosaics, and junk and the stupefying gorgeousness of Outsider Art. The kids loved it. My brain is just buzzy with it. The whole family was pretty well spellbound. I wish we could spend days there. Maybe move in? There’s loads of room, anyway.
Here are some photos to tell a sliver of the story. The current show ALL FAITHS BEAUTIFUL ends in August. I hope we get to go and spend some more time with it.
This is one of those days that I think my cell phone camera sort of rocks. It’s only a stand in, but it did O.K.
(fuzzy art photo… not the cell phone rocks variety 
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ART COMA
Loads more pics of the day on flickr
Lastly– Here’s some spinning from last week. I have a bit over 400 yards of this. Don’t know what it wants to be yet, but I am digging the colors.
There’s creative lava flowing around here– bet you get to see more in the next few days.
Gnome-out.
How? I ask you.
How in the world does this happen so fast???
The “I will only sleep ON you” stage.
The “I totally fit in the kitchen sink like it is a pool” stage.
The “OH MY STARS, YOU ARE A GIANT! ” stage. 10.
Yes, I skipped a few pictures in between…. But really! Marigold is T.E.N. tomorrow!!! I am sort of stupefied over it. I rummaged up the one photo album that has baby photos–( the rest still live in the virtual digi-land. Bad mama.) and I was misty and leaky looking at the pictures of her little self and thinking about the big girl I took to the hair salon today for her annual birthday-beauty-day. Wow. I am so amazed by and proud of her. I think of all the wonderment and struggles that have been with us, and the many that are yet to come to us and I just really can’t believe it. ANY of it. There were pictures in there of Jim and I, and even my sisters soon before we had kids, and then as we were brand-new-first-time parents. It was really strange looking– really looking — at those too. Seeing the innocence and youth in our faces. The smiles that were yet to be touched by parenting and its many joys and challenges. The physicality of youth. The changes that are all too apparent in the contrast of those youngsters and the people we are today. Wouldn’t trade it– as they say– but isn’t life just amazing?
I remember that when Marigold was born and then wee, Jim and I would sometimes look at her and crack up– we’d point at the two of us and hiss to her a hysterical tone– ” WE are your PARENTS!” As if to say “LOOK AT US! HA! You have no idea what you are in for, and neither do we, and HA, isn’t that a SCREAM!”
Still the same right?
This day, I hope if you have kids, you go and give them a big sweet hug. Feel their growing bodies. Smell their lovely skin. Eat ‘em up. And be so thankful.
If you don’t have any… grab someone else’s kid and hug them . They all have so much to teach us about love, and humanity, and observation, and listening, and the things that are truly important in life.
yum.
Happy Birthday, Flower.