Asher finishes his lunch. Mommy decides to treat him to the other half of the large pumpkin cookie that she bought for him yesterday.

Mommy ruffles Asher's hair. "I love you, my little pumpkin."

Asher grins, his teeth full of orange sprinkles. "I love you, too, my big pumpkin."

[Leaving the Fish Market, Stacy hears the train signal going down, and sees the light rail going by.]

Mommy Stacy: The train is coming!

(Great excitement from the kids, who try and fail to see it.)

Mommy Stacy: But it's gone now. It was a short train.

Asher (sounding concerned): All gone?

Jacob (sounding confident and reassuring): The short train is all ( Read more... )

 Toddler-friendly indoor activities in the Bay Area that are a) open until 6 or 6:30pm, and b) not a restaurant, shopping mall, or store ( Read more... )

Asher experienced his first noticeable earthquake, a 5.6 that occured at 8:04pm NNE of Alum Rock, CA. (That's about 9 miles NE of San Jose City Hall.)

He was crying and obviously scared.

There was enough shaking that I picked him up and moved us to the office doorway.

I don't have time to fuss with fancy toddler food every day.

But once in a while it's fun to do something special.


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Weird foods that Asher has shown a taste for recently: olives and Japanese pickles.

Sisyphus: Greek dude condemned to eternally push a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down again.

That's me trying to make any progress on cleaning the house while watching a toddler.