Guess the Cookie Shape

Friday December 22, 2007
This is a photograph of a gingerbread cookie I made today (while I was cooking dinner AND holding Susanna in one arm). As you can probably tell, I cut it free hand. Please submit a guess as to what it represents. I will reveal the answer (and an explanation) around January 4.

Here is a gingerbread family and a gingerbread house we also made (Yes, I am aware that I look more like Scott's daughter than his wife in our gingerbread family below. Maybe this had something to do with the fact that, as I mentioned above, Susanna was in my arms while I did this):

Susanna's Reading Room

Say it is 9:30 am and Susanna and I just got back from a run. Susanna goes down for her nap at around 1:00 pm which is longer than I want to wait for a shower. This is a time to break out the reading room (aka Pack-n-Play). I think I felt like calling it something besides travel crib or even playpen would make it more appealing to Susanna. Who knows whether or not this helped, but with Scott calling it "jail" I had to do something.

Susanna doesn't like the reading room when I'm making dinner (after 30 seconds or so she is very insistent that she come help cook), but for some reason, she loves it for showers; and its a wonderful blessing I take advantage of once or twice a week. When I announce that I am getting out her reading room she squeals and claps, and then runs around looking for books to drop in. By the time I'm done with the shower she's done with the reading room, but that's all I want it for anyway.