grandfather and grandmother in hebrew.
little man, big car seat.
sheer cuteness
tired but happy family ready to go home!
so the little man and i have been working on breast-feeding and while we had a rocky start, things are progressing very well. latching and sucking happening, in the right order! i am also pumping to make sure he gets enough to eat and to stimulate more milk production. this is will's first time feeding our son (it was 4:00 am) i have never loved my husband more!
less than a day old and we are enjoying skin time. i think he kinda looks like will. 
this is my son.
i know its a little bit of gimmie and its not a great picture.. but still one of the best movies of all time! first one to answer correctly via comments gets a prize.
what is CSA you ask? community supported agriculture, i answer. we joined the stillman farms CSA and today was the first pick-up the bounty was plentiful despite it being early in the season. we got radishes, golden beets, argula, swiss chard, strawberries, spinach and lettuce. i am excited to play with greens in my cooking! (ok i'll be honest i'm excited to taste the things that will makes with the greens!)
this whole pregnancy things makes me feel like i am 1000 degrees all the time. while will tells me i am cool to the touch i feel like i am burning up. i have complained in the past about the reverse effects of the thermal camera on the isight, so invert all the blue to red and you will get a sense of just how hot i feel.
in my lifetime the furniture i have acquired was basically take it as is, either free or there are no choices you have to take it in this color if you want it. for this chair, will and i chose the color and the style and we are so happy! since its a glider type chair it lives in the little room, until such time that we can bring into the living room and enjoy it all the time. also extra style points come from jesse who gifted us the beautiful throw from mexico you see artfully draped along the back of the chair . (the artful draping is mine but i couldn't have done it with any other throw so easily.)
for those of you with cats or dogs, you know what it means when they start scooting their butts on the ground. well i noticed it happening which meant it was time to go get those bad boys "expressed" because i am a nice person "expressed" is what i will call it for you. really this is just a picture of jackson's butt much happier!
after a long night of watching the celtics win my boys, they were tired. it was all they could do to muster the energy to go for a walk.
tomorrow eli is going to start painting the dining room. so tonight we emptied it and stacked the big furniture in the middle, jackson was excited because the tarps we used smell like camping and he hearts camping. goodbye semi-gloss blue paint!
i love summer fruits. i would eat nothing but fruit if my digestive system would allow it. in this bowl is one quarter of a watermelon we got at costco last week. self control is not having cut the whole thing and eating it in one sitting.
today eli finished painting the little room. i love how it turned out and i also love that our house didn't smell because we used no-VOC paint, Freshaire Choice Paint available at home depot. we used summer dragonfly (turquoise) and distant star (white) for the colors. thanks eli it looks great!
this is what i look like 36 weeks pregnant.
today a good of friend of ours was honored by the community. there is no one i know who deserves this kind of recognition more than he does. so here's to you Alan, keep up the good work, I am proud and honored to call you my friend.
i was getting something out of the fridge this evening and i noticed this nifty shadow. while my camera is mostly awesome capturing dark lit shadows is not its strong suit, so while the picture is grainy you still get the idea (squint a little and you will see it even better)
this is what it looks like when i transfer tapes to mp3. its an annoying process (you have to do it in real time and the cord is short so i can't play on the computer whilst the dubbing happens) but thank goodness for AZ who clued me into the trial software (i have 18 days left to finish up the tapes) and what kind of cord to buy.
"he looks like one of the little guys from tatooine" says will. "huh? what is that?" says me. apparently in this picture jackson looks like a star wars character, news to me, i think he just looks adorable (full disclosure i had to look up online how to spell tatooine)
everyone likes to look into someone else's life. there are many ways to do this, open the cabinets in the bathroom, peek inside bedside tables, or open the fridge. well dear reader here is your peek into my fridge. what does this peek tell you about us? 
we are in the midst of reorganizing our house to make room for the kidlet. this is a complicated process, when will and i moved in together we got rid of ton of crap, when we moved we got rid of a ton of crap, when i started this blog (and we had the street sale) we got rid of a ton of crap. yet somehow we still have crap. we have given away furniture and we are still getting rid of crap. how are we solving the problem? we are getting a new piece of furniture to store the crap that we aren't getting rid of. so i was in the store today with the new piece trying to figure out what baskets would go in the bottom to store the linens that we want to keep there. there are two choices. the dark one or the light one. i know its a long post to basically ask one question. the room walls are tan, the floors are roughly the same color as in the picture and the piece will be in a well lit room but not super bright. (also keep in mind that you are only seeing the bottom part, there are three more shelves above that won't have baskets.)
will has been teaching jackson to fetch. its a simple concept i know, but our dog he is special, he didn't want to fetch, he just wanted to chase whatever it was and chew on it where it landed. however he is learning that he if he brings something back he will get to chase it again. here he is chasing the frog head down the hall into the kitchen, he then brought it back, ready to chase again. i am so proud!
I know that I now notice babies (of all types) more than I did before, for this I blame the fetus, but as I walking to class this morning, i had a flash forward walking with a kid and seeing this scene. I wouldn't be able to just walk by. We would have to stop and watch the baby geese and most likely talk about it. Usually thoughts like this overwhelm me, but today I was oddly at peace with the idea of it.
so this is meant to be a picture of my rake. but a picture of a rake hanging on a wall is boring, so if you add my husband it makes it a better-looking picture. i got this rake from my brothers-in-law at our wedding, its meant to symbolize how they have accepted me into the family (one of many sibling bonding indentured servitude tasks was raking the leaves in the yard on thanksgiving). every time i look at my rake, i smile and for that daily smile i thank my "brothers"
this morning i had breakfast with two of my-brothers in law and husband and there was something missing. . . saul
this is what is happening in kenmore square this weekend. i recommend you don't try driving through this weekend at all.
