Ah Nuts.

Very rarely do I spend an evening away from my Little Children and husband, but every few months, I tag onto a book club with my college friends. More often than not, I haven't finished the book because I only have time to read right before bed, which means two pages in...I'm out. It is not at all unreasonable to assume that one adult book can take me several months to read. Sad, I know. But give me a crack at Good Morning, Good Night or Alexander and the Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day and I'm golden. It just so happens that I DID finish the book club book, The Soloist. Last week, our book club met, which meant that Nate was on Little Children patrol by himself. This is the photo I found in the camera:

That would be Henry with his bee-hind stuck in a Lincoln Logs container.

After seeing this, I thougt it wise not ask what he served them for dinner.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery aka Charlie likes to copy anything anyone else is doing and it is soooo cute.

Two baby bottles without tops = Like $10 with inflation

Two large tumblers = Free, I would never buy those

A plastic watering can= Again, free because it was a gift

and 3 food coloring additives = $7

Entertaining Henry in the kitchen sink on a typical Portland rainy day for ONE AND A HALF HOURS???? Priceless.

Later, as I looked through my photos, I wondered to myself how wise it was to let Henry put several drops of red, blue and green food coloring into Charlie's BPA-laden (they were purchased well before BPA became a household acronym) bottles....but then I thought, whats a little red #3 and sodium benzoate going to do that Big Bad BPA won't cancel out? Am I right?

For the record, Henry didn't drink the colored water and I safely sanitized said bottles.
Because it was all Portlandy outside, Henry explored the deep inside the house:

Shirtless food fotos of Charlie are becoming quite common. I should work on that. Or not.

To a parent, they are adorable. To an outsider, I am sure they think said parent is nuts.

Here's to being nuts! Love, B