LOOK TO THE COOKIE! AND ETC.

here is huck, bubble boy extraordinaire, enjoying his black + white cookie. as a mom you have to do a lot of strange things to appease your two-year-old, such as blowing on lukewarm bites of chicken so he knows they're not hot and "opening" black + white cookies before they're eaten so that the flavors stay separate. i feel like jerry seinfeld would feel terribly disappointed by this.

so today it was very rainy. 

we woke up and sleepily opened yogurt cups and entertained texts from husbands about "flash flood warnings" and then we walked through the rain to the gym at the church to play with some friends. if there is one thing i've learned about rainy days in the city it's that it is always too hot out for rain boots.

huck is the smallest big boy of his big boy friends and sometimes it's hard for him to keep up, but he sure tries hard. after a particularly emotional plastic truck tug-of-war i asked huck to give his friend a turn. poor huck sobbed out "ohh-taaaaayy" and then slowly unclutched his fingers from the plastic wheels. he never did get the truck back but that's life, isn't it? i was so, so proud of him. he's got such a sensitive spirit, and sadly in this life there's really not much justice for us big-hearted fools, that's what i've learned anyhow. i'm trying to teach my baby to be the bigger person always and to expect nothing in return, but that's a hard lesson to learn when you're two. it's still hard when you're 30. 

later huck face planted on the hardwoods and then requested a hot dog. so that is exactly what we did. 

and now LET ME JUST TELL YOU. so i've been watching pretty little liars, the holbzombie has been watching the walking dead, both of us after huck is in bed at the same time on our various tv watching devices, and both of us sitting together on the couch and jumping at various scary moments and then saying things to each other like "wow this show is really great!" and "oh my gosh this show is so dumb why can't i stop watching this?!" huck has been going to bed early(ish), but also he enjoys watching toy reviews on youtube, in case you were wondering. it's really strange, these videos are really strange. who are these people. i'd like to thank them for providing such odd entertainment for my child. he is doomed, by the way too. many nerd genes swimming in this family pool.

and not that it's not obvious but i am SUCH a spencer. and the walking dead, from where i'm sitting, looks an awful lot like tremors. 

the end.