christmas part 1

I thought about only posting 1 photo a day - that would last a nice long time! Ultimately that would be more work, though, so here's a whole bunch of photos from Christmas. There was a lot of reading, and a lot of pretzel eating! We don't get the nice Utz sourdough pretzels out here, and Eric and Oscar both took full advantage. I was alright, having sated my need for them years ago by eating them for dessert.

More to follow!

haircut!

One day soon I will post the Christmas photos. But today, since it is very nice out and I don't feel too tired, we cleaned and reorganized and took stuff to the Arc - and I gave Oscar a haircut! He's a bit of the mushroom-head now, but as Eric kept saying, it will grow out. He also looks astonishingly like a boy and not a baby anymore.
Before:

Hello rat's nest!

During: (he mostly held still because the games had his attention. He was playing Toca Hair Salon - his choice!)

After!

His hair is so fine it's hard to see how goofy he looks from the pictures - once the flash goes his head just looks golden.

an Oscar bonanza

First of all, see if you can guess the song Oscar's singing in this video.

Oscar had a great birthday. He got lots of toys and good books and new outfits - all the important things. We sang the birthday song and he looked a candle in the eye and threw up after eating cake - all the other important things. So here he is in all his glory, enjoying all his presents.

Sweepea

a few more items

All the animals relaxed together for once. Pocky and Garage even looked at the camera.

I made delicious onion rolls. The pink part on top is onion. It is unclear why it turned pink but it was definitely not poison. The internet thought maybe the onion was on its way to caramelizing but when we tried broiling the rolls to encourage it to finish caramelizing, all that happened was it turned black.

We just turned our heat on Nov. 1, and here is the bold daylily that decided to bloom the very next day! 

Oscar enjoyed some blanket forts this weekend. He really likes when I take pictures of him and then show them to him. He knows that it's Oscar in the picture!

He was very helpful when Eric changed out the screen door for the glass door. I really like how the glare totally obliterates Eric's head.

That is all!