Eating, Underwear, and More Eating

Aleaha and Mommy went to Pastini's the other night (while Daddy had a work session for racecar with his crew). It was a more upscale place than I would normally patronize with a little kid, but she was pretty good. Noodles with butter, how bad could it be? And chocolate cake for dessert. Yeah, it rated pretty high.


Should we be seeing this? Clearly not. (First, it's a flash of her underwear, which we are teaching is not something to be shown in public. Second, uh....if I can read it like this, it means they are on inside out!) Obviously there was a dress-yourself opportunity earlier in her day.



Happiness is sharing a big chocolate milkshake with your dad. :)


I've gotten some requests to post "belly shots" here. Will try. We are so danged busy lately it's hard to find a few minutes....

This weekend we finished setting up the pig pen for '09, and we trekked out to the farm and picked up our 5 little oinkers for this year. Pics of those soon, I hope. Two of them are smaller than the others -- small enough to escape through the side pannels of the pen! We had a bit of a situation yesterday when a little one got on the wrong side of the fence. He got a little scared, jumped the hot wire, went through the openings in the pannel fence, and was free. After a panicky moment where we all sort of froze in place, I thought to turn off the hot wire and let his social instinct to be with his friends take over. He quickly found his way back in, at which point I promptly turned the electricity back on, to discourage that sort of thing again! That seems to be the only escapee case. The piggies are pretty fun to watch, as they frolick in the dirt, lay in the sun and shade, and learn to eat from the "big pig feeder". They are still struggling to learn how to drink from the hose, but they are getting there. They were accustomed to living in a barn, no access to the outdoors. So they seem to be understanding that this ranch is a pretty good deal . Yeah, that's the way we want them to think about it.... a really great life. With purpose. A higher purpose. More on that later. ;) (And no, NONE of them are named "Babe" or Wilbur"!)