busy busy busy

It’s been a busy few weeks here at the 611. We’re learning to eat with our hands and from a spoon, look like a zombie when we’re done eating strawberries, spend lots of time on our bellies and play with friends.

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Pics from the Europe trip

Miraculously avoiding serious travel snafus surrounding the volcanic ash, we’ve made it back home safe and sound. Lots of good visits with friends and family in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany.

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laughing fit

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A new rolodex

And now for something completely different.

I’ve spent a few hours these last few days going through my digital address books and trying to sync them up. We’ll see if the system maintains itself. That’s the key — that I don’t really want to have to think about it much going forward other than the occasional adding/changing of an address. More details below the fold for those of you who want to skip to the baby pictures (I don’t blame you).

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one busy weekend

A visit from the cousin (and parents) was followed by a visit to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll. It was a madhouse and the first brutally hot sunshine of the year, but still kind of nice to check out Chateau Obama.

And OMG Justin Bieber was so cool.

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shameless

A crop of new(ish) photos to add to the mix.

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snow day

Now that’s what I call a real winter storm…

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new adventures

The latest crop of photos…

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cornbread (and baby pics)

As promised to a Christmas visitor, here’s the recipe for Emmet’s cornbread. We just made it again last night and it hit the spot. Whatever you do, don’t skimp on the butter.

[Celia says she often doubles or triples this recipe -- I usually just make it as is.]

Ingredients:
1/2c butter (1 stick)
1c milk
4T brown sugar
1c corn meal
1c flour [I usually do 50/50 white/whole wheat flour]
1/2t salt
2t baking powder

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375. Melt butter in cast iron skillet in oven. Mix wet and dry ingredients separately , then together. [I sometimes add a dash of cumin and not as much sugar. Also, frozen corn, cooked sweet potato and/or diced jalapeno add a little je ne sais quoi.] Pour into pan, bake 20-30 minutes. Drizzle honey and enjoy!

And, as promised, here are a crop of photos from Christmas.

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a highlight

This may just be my favorite picture from xmas up in Leverett…

Taken immediately after Christmas dinner with the best Yorkshire Pudding ever. We say that every year but this year we meant it.

More photos to come soon. Go Sox.

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