if it was the seventies you’d probably think I was talking about some sort of upper, but no, it’s 2008 and we have a kid. I am talking about elmo. the elmo phenomenon came swiftly and surely into our house about a month or so ago. we’d had a book called “how big is elmo” for months, but something just clicked recently and it’s been an all out elmo frenzy. Continue reading

Ryder and I took our first music class together last week. We signed up based on the fact that you had to purchase a maraca to be in the class. “A maraca” I thought, “Awesome.” In the past, I had avoided signing us up for other promising classes based on their respective equipment lists – most notably, “Self-Defense for Infants” and its requisite “baby switchblade.” Continue reading