Juliet @ Six Months

According to Juliet's pediatrician, she's 50% for height, 30% for weight, and 100% for adorableness (the doctor's words, not mine). I'm surprised by where she falls on the size charts because she looks plenty big to me. I guess all those obese kids in the news are skewing the charts. Maybe we should feed her real pizza instead of that fake stuff laying next to her head. Juliet's latest feat? Crawling backwards.

What Would You Pay For A Profiterole?

Each year Heather makes a dessert for the Young Women's Dessert Auction at church. The money raised is used throughout the year for activities. Her desserts always receive rave reviews. This year she was almost embarrassed to submit her profiteroles, a choux pastry filled with cream and topped with chocolate ganache. This is an actual photo of her dessert. Why the embarrassment? Because she said they are too easy to make. Too easy? I could split an atom before I could make a profiterole. And Heather's profiteroles are one of the most delicious weapons in her baking arsenal. I love them, and so did the bidders. Sister Lee, bless her heart, loves a bidding war. She'll push you to your limits, bid $5 more than your willing to pay, buy the dessert, and then hand it to you. One plate of Heather's profiteroles raised 45 bucks. Sister Lee must have purchased 10 desserts and then gave them away. I tried to share a dessert with her with her but she said "I don't eat sugar." I would guess that Sister Lee's generosity is responsible for a third of the Young Women's budget and a third of the congregation's cavities.

Oui Oui On The Bed

Erika loves her new bed. Our home is mostly modern but we've decided to make her room French frilly chic. We're going for that obnoxious mix of modern and baroque found in 70s Hollywood homes. The room is pink with a white chandelier and the Olivia furniture set from Pottery Barn for Kids. We planned to buy the Olivia set for months. Suddenly the set went on sale but we pulled the trigger a day to late. The entire stock was sold out nationwide with no plans to offer it again. Our pleas to purchase the display set fell on deaf ears. We searched for a replacement without success. But Heather does not give up that easy. She called Pottery Barn again and they remembered her immediately. In fact, they had contacted corporate headquarters who agreed to sell her the bed, but they had failed to take her contact information. By luck, she called before they gave the bed to another buyer. She found a second display model Juliet at the Manhattan Beach store. The sale price less the discount, less the display discount, less shipping added up to huge savings.

Who Thought Instant Cameras Were So Hard To Use

I'm still trying to dial in my Polaroid 600 SE. Here's two more recent photos.

Coming To An Artery Near You

Behold. The breakfast cupcake. Step aside Egg McNothin, there's a new cholesterol bomb in town. A month ago I dreamed of a breakfast cupcake and blogged about it. My chief imagineer Heather and I set about realizing that dream; a pan-cup-cake wrapped in bacon, topped with a fried egg, and soaked in maple syrup. The sausage link is an extra 39 cents. Best served with an icy cold glass of white gravy. Mmmmmm.