Tasty Cakes

Toni and I left for Philly on Saturday and came back on Monday. It was fantastic seeing Patrick and Jaren again, after 2.5 years of nada. Figured out that the last time I saw Patrick was directly after commencement, when we said hi and bye and he met Nina for a moment. P & J are funny, funny people. Went to the Academy of Natural Sciences and looked at the stuffed animals in the dioramas. Their dead, dead eyes. Wise cracks such as "It's not right that they keep these in captivity, you know" ensued. Jaren got into the live animal show before P, T, and I wandered inside ourselves, and she was witness to a small boy raise his hand, while the keeper was showing them a type of duck, and say, "This show is making me sleepy!"

T and I drove home yesterday, but first stopped off at Target so that she could get new curtains and I could get a measuring tape and batteries. Because, you know, this is the most important thing for me to buy right now. No, not food. I LIKE being hungry in the morning at work.

When I came to my parents' house last night after Target, Nina and Lucy were there. They told me that Looch could now say Aunt Sara. This apparently involves her stretching her mouth out and saying, in a Danny-from-The-Shining kind of way, "Ah-yah-yah-yah-yah" or "Ah-ba-ba-ba-ba." It was cuter than everything ever. And then the blood came flowing out of the elevator and dad went nuts, etc etc etc.