My friend Jane is in town from Switzerland.  Her husband Hayo's great aunt makes the best baby booties.  She dyes little blankets to match.  Jane brought Ollie 3 pairs.  

Ollie's friend Ella gave him monster socks for Christmas. Whenever he wears them I can't help but smile.  He wore his monster socks to bed last night.  He sleeps in a little crib next to our bed.  He was kicking as he was falling asleep and I kept seeing the little monster feet pop up.  

Saturday Morning Hotness

Nursing Ollie, reading a cookbook, wearing sweats I bought while I was pregnant, with unshaved legs, white Nike socks and my navy blue old man slippers*.




*Dearfoams. So fucking comfortable.

Wimmer Ferguson Infant Stim-Mobile

If you're looking for an off-registry* baby shower gift, I recommend the Wimmer Ferguson Infant Stim-Mobile.  According to every site that sells it, it's award-winning, though I can't figure out just what award it's won.  

Photo from the Manhattan Toy Company site

The mobile comes with interchangeable cards, so you can start with the very simple black and white shapes and as your baby's vision improves, you can add the more complex colorful cards.

Here are the cards:

Photo Credit

Ollie loves his mobile. We do too. We wouldn't be able to get dressed in the morning without it.

Edit: * I don't know why, but I woke up in the middle of the night and for some stupid reason, was thinking that duh, of course this could be on a baby registry somewhere. But Babies "R" Us doesn't carry it... And OH MY GOD I feel so much better having clarified this.

Deliberating

Do I want this jacket?



Do I want this dress?




Both are on sale...

Images from Steven Alan's site

Ollie Update

• Bonnie Prince Billy makes Ollie stop crying. Whenever I put on Master and Everyone and turn it up to a decent level his crying immediately ceases. It’s been a big help the past few days because Oliver has just come to the realization that crying gets a response and that he can make things happen when he cries. (Really, it’s probably a distraction but I like to pretend it’s because Ollie has impeccable taste in music.)

• I tried to take Ollie to story hour the other day and by the time we got there it was over. I know, mother of the year. We’ll try again next week because it looked kind of fun. It’s at the library on Ortega in the outer Sunset. The library is old and teeny tiny but there’s something cozy about it.

• Today Ollie and I went to San Jose. We had to drop something off in Mountain View so we made a day of it: we went to see my grandmother, we had lunch with one of my brothers and then we visited my folks. While we were at my parent’s house, I was making myself a tea and he rolled over for my parents. He did it twice for only me a couple of weeks ago. I’m glad someone else got to see it.

Shauna of small medium large did a great post today on affordable art.

I was just cruising my Google Reader and saw Jen Beckman’s project, 20X200, which does exactly what Shauna was talking about. The idea is, she offers a photograph and a work on paper in the following sizes and quantities:
8.5” x 11” 200 for $20
16” x 20” 20 for $200
30” x 40” 2 for $2,000

She was doing it once a week though I’m not positive if it’s still that frequent. Stuff goes quickly; in particular the $20 pieces so act quickly if there’s something you want.

Jen Beckman owns an art gallery in New York City. She opened her gallery with the intention of supporting up and coming artists. In addition to 20x200, she has a twice-yearly Hey, Hot Shot! contest to help emerging photographers. Winners get a two-week exhibition at her gallery.

Oliver will be attending his first birthday party on Sunday. If he understood what this meant, I'm sure he'd be very excited.

But that's not the point of this post. The point is, I love what we bought for the birthday girl:



Image from the Baby Leo site

Yeah, that's right, it's a cape. They're made in San Francisco - in the Sunset district no less.



The Panighetti family came to visit us today and Stephanie bought Megan a cape, too. Here's Megan's: