Air Baguette

Sometimes grocery shopping with a 4 year old can be a fun experience.  Usually not, but sometimes.  This weekend we went suburban grocery shopping (complete with parking lot!) and we were entertained by our Little Hammy.  King Coffee Bean greeted me among the sacks of coffee beans and offered to get some coffee for me.  Sure, I said, as the real coffee guy ground my French Roast.  The king demanded that I address him properly.  Okay, King Coffee Bean, what kind of beans do you have?  He then gave me a tour of the beans of the world, including the popular blends mint chocolate chip, coconut, cocoa 215, forty-one forty-nine, black, dark brown, and blueberry muffin.  I ordered a pound.  Then he led me to the left-hand side of his kingdom, ducked down behind a burlap sack, and emerged as the Service Master.  I didn't understand and addressed him as "King."  I AM NOT THE KING.  I AM THE SERVICE MASTER.  Now, here is your coffee.

After we checked out, we naturally put all our bags in the cart to take it to the car.  Little Hammy offered to carry the baguette.  It annoys me to no end that Fairway insists on putting 2 feet of baguette into 10 inches of plastic bag, but they always do it.  Immediately he started playing air guitar like a rock legend.  All the way out the store and down the sidewalk.  Thoroughly entertaining, especially since we have no idea where he learned his moves.  I caught the last little bit on video, but unfortunately missed the bulk of the performance.  For your viewing pleasure:

Later in the evening after we got home, our neighbor saw us in the hallway and gave Sasha a little Diego doll. He was thrilled and started dancing Diego all around our apartment. I thought I'd join in and grabbed Dolly Doll to dance, too. He stopped short, rolled his eyes, and said, "Mamu, there's no Dolly Doll in this part. It's the opening credits."

Color Scheme

Nerdy has just brought today's purple theme to my attention. No, I did not coordinate the new blog colors with the Obama family's inaugural outfits.

Robot Function Bird

Behold Sasha's latest creation.

Zayde's New Chapeau

Waiting to see the chipper

Reading with Zayde

Post-Christmas fun in da Bronx!

Starting off the morning with some Connect Four (from an anonymous gifter)

Then later outside to play in some snow

Special guest this weekend up from DC!

Aunt Margot celebrating a snow ball toss

Merry Christmas!

Sick Ducky

Yikes!  I'm behind the commenting times.  Yes, readers, the Bub is sick.  He had a fever for much of last week.  Developing it, of course, upon arriving at Nana and Zayde's house for an overnight stay.  Some things seem always to happen there in the Bronx: fevers and binge eating.  I can't explain the fevers, but I suspect that he likes to eat more when someone actually cooks good food for him.  I'll be the first to admit that one of the bad habits I am passing on to my son is sporadic snacking and rarely actual meals.  Poor child will probably grow up to experience hives whenever someone offers him cheese and crackers.  I just read on the internets that eating vegetables in front of your children will influence their lifelong intake of veggies, even if they don't begin to eat them themselves until they're older.

But I digress.  So Sasha had a low-grade fever for much of last week.  We took him to the doctor Thursday when his fever got higher and he started complaining about his stomach hurting.  That, and he couldn't breathe from the wheezing and the cough.  So the photo in the last post was from me taking him outside where he promptly fell asleep.  (The stroller is almost outgrown and only gets used on those rare days when a nap is inevitable.)

After three days of prednisone doses and nebulizer treatments, he's feeling somewhat better, though his cough is still sounds painful and it wakes him up at night.  If he starts smoking at any point in his life, I may have to "slap him upside the head" as a psychopath recommended when Sasha dared to walk in front of him yesterday.  Anyway, he's feeling well enough to be very excited about Christmas and we have plans to make creme wafer cookies today. Yay!!

Sick Little Ducky Fell Asleep