sailboat skirt

last summer, i made suki a few sailboat skirts, and now at the beginning of this summer, they still fit her. recently, i made her another one, the next size up, and it turned out really cute. i used some of the fabric debby gave me- a piece that she had left over from the rebe summer 2010 collection. now we can match!

susan made this sweet little felted bag for suki, and adam added the silver jews button. 

here suki was pretending to be a dog and chewing sticks with koji. she has a fun imagination and makes me laugh every day.

new camera strap

within the first week of using my new camera, the strap broke, or so i thought. for months i was keeping my eyes open for a new strap, but i never found one. last week, i was admiring the camera strap hillery made for matt's camera and discovered my strap was not broken, i had just put it on wrong. i kept the end pieces and made a softer, more colorful strap for myself. thanks hillery and matt for the tips, it makes using my camera much nicer. 

hair cutting and making

hillery got her hair cut while she was visiting us, and she gave adam a haircut. matt made adam a website and taught him how to manage it. i will be posting more about the website soon. suki had her first lesson on embroidery from hillery. 

water balloons and braids

suki was spending time with her favorite neighbor friends and playing water balloons. hillery braided C's hair while suki and R continued to soak themselves silly.

spicy fruit and the park

we went searching for treasures and stopped by the fruit stand at clyde park and hogan, outside of the mexican market. spicy fruit in a bag is such a refreshing treat on a hot day. it is easy to make at home but it's never as good because the experience of having the guy make it for you in his little cart makes it taste so much better. if you do not have a spicy fruit vendor near you try mixing in a ziplock cubes of cantaloupe, watermelon, or mango with juice from one lime, a dash of salt and cayenne pepper. 

at the park a young man wrote a poem about eleanor and recited it for us, his name was joel.

stacking toys with matt

future islands

our cousins hillery, matt, and doggie eleanor were visiting us for the week. they are leaving in the morning and we are so sad to see them go. while record shopping at vertigo, they picked a future islands lp for us. the band is from baltimore, their hometown. i have not listened to it much yet, but i have a feeling it will be fun for dancing with suki.