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Ess Loves Tomato Plants

Ess Loves Tomato Plants

Ess is holding a basil leaf, which she calls baytil. She eats them, like just bites off fresh basil leaves.

Cooking

Cooking

These little pots and pans are from my mom; Ess loves to shuttle little cashew pieces between them and “heat UP”.

Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty

Opening

Opening

Belting In

Belting In

Trike Expedition

Trike Expedition

Thinking

Thinking

Eggplant!

Eggplant!

We grew this Japanese eggplant in our garden. Mykala sampled it: tasted awful. The tomatoes, though — Brandywine heirloom variety — have exceeded our wildest expectations in taste, sweetness, and quantity.

Trike

Ess loves this. Doesn’t know how to pedal yet (her legs don’t reach, which doesn’t help); so we’re going to add in the ‘Ess gets to steer’ feature soon.

Counting Caterpillar

A gift from Auntie Katy to Ess. She (Ess) has her own unique counting style right now. Colors are down pretty well, working on numbers.

Birthday Selfie

Birthday Selfie

Cards #3

Cards #3

Cards #4

Cards #4

Ikea Poäng

Ikea Poäng

This Ikea Poäng chair was from Emily and Nick (and their twin boys, of course).

Reading

Reading

Monkey Book

Monkey Book

This book is called I Know a Monkey and it is about Ess’ stuffed monkey Marge. In the book, it calls the monkey “he” but we change it to “she”.

Cake

Cake

“What do you want for you birthday, Ess?”
“Pink deek.”
“Pink cake? Anything else?”
“Pink deek.”

Custom-baked by Mykala.

Cards #1

Cards #1

Cards #2

Cards #2

Humpy Dumpy

Humpy Dumpy

This animatronic goose recites poems. The first one is Humpty Dumpty. Ess calls her ‘humpy dumpy’ and thinks she’s a hoot.

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