Elizabeth’s baby sitter greeted Scott this evening with ‘primer diente’!
Elizabeth has cut her first tooth!
You can just make out the hint of white on her bottom gum. Can feel it with your finger, kind of sharp. Counting the hours until she nails me with it nursing…
The closet has been removed and the walls are ready for paint. I tried out ‘Toasted Scone’, which is what we painted the living areas – looks nice in natural light against the cherry flooring. Not so much in the bathroom. Too dark and a faint green hue. It would have been nice if it had worked in the bathroom.
I also began recaulking the tub. All the way around the top of the tub and down two sides. Need to do the floor seam and then the shower stall corners.
And a premature change to the toilet.
How cool is this?
Tada!
We did lots of running around Sunday and finished our day at Great Northern Guns.
Scott took advantage of a flat spot on the ammo sale table to change EKA’s diaper. There’s so much to like about this photo. Happy baby, diaper changing’ daddy, nice rifles in the background, affordable ammo in the foreground.
It’s all good.
My mom is multi talented. This week we received an assortment of her hand knit hats for Elizabeth.
I stole a hat from my daughter.
Scott sez
Organic eggs with broccoli, cauliflower, chicken breast and cheddar
Fire Island Bakery Artisan White bread, toasted with butter and Shelissa’s Homemade Super Jam
Mom’s Homemade Banana Bread with butter
I won’t vote for the lesser of two evils.
I was voter #69 at my polling place.
Kate and Lucy’s pups are over six months old now and are eligible to enter conformation shows. This weekend there is a conformation, rally and obedience show at Raven hall on the state fairgrounds. I didn’t enter Kate or Bing but I sure wanted to see Smudge (out of Kate) and Sherlock (out of Lucy) at their first show.
Scott was awesome and took Bing and Kate herding do they didn’t miss their usual fun. He reports Bing had a good time and Scott took Kate in to work sheep himself. Kate was busy being silly until big brother Bing came in to lend a mouth. There was some hooting and hollering but with her brother bolstering her she worked the sheep.
Bing did some more serious work with our friend in the half acre field. They’re developing a longer fetch and working at greater distances. We need to put some time in bringing back his distance sits and downs.
Neither dog has received much training this year and it shows…
But they had a good time at herding as usual!
Elizabeth and I enjoyed visiting with friends and admiring all the lovely dogs at the show. She got kissed by a Great Dane (smiles all around), was entranced by Smudge, and was pealing in laughter with a Great Pyrenees that seemed to find her just as cool as she found him. She also got in some good socialization with friends, practiced nursing in a noisier environment, tasted chili broth, saw LOTS of dogs, and was generally fussed and cooed over.
Smudge and Sherlock made it around the ring – with greater grace than I remember Kate and I managing at her first show. Conformation is a lot harder than it looks. Pups want to wiggle and giggle their silly way around – twisting to see behind and bounding to play ahead. The judge took her time and was patient with the individual pups. Very nice. It was a pleasure to see so many Cardigan Welsh Corgis in the ring and in so many coat colors.
The judge really looked closely at three of the cardis at the end. She had them move out separately again at the end, carefully evaluating their gait and structure, great deliberation on placement.
I don’t recall who placed where except for the great joy if the day – our friends boy whom she’d been considering retiring went Best of Breed! That was great fun!
I loved watching Elizabeth and Kat interact. Elizabeth clearly loved it and was reaching out for Kat and flirting and laughing at all the play. Beautiful.
Scott picked us up after group (no placements for Arrow but he showed with great heart) and we finished up the afternoon with lunch at Whitespot and a Fire Island cookie. Elizabeth the dogs and I crashed, Scott headed out for a few more errands. Great day.
Our nightly baby related dishes. Plus a load of diapers (didn’t make it to the 144 necessary to outsource the laundry). Plus tonight was EKA’s bath night.
Baby’s are not environmentally friendly.
