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shopping bags

May 18, 2011

it’s become impossible to go to the store now without sparklet having her own shopping bag. of course, that means that she eventually needs something to put in it.

today, we had to pick up some spaghetti sauce for dinner — it can’t all be homemade — and i was slightly panicked. either she was going to freak out about not being allowed to put the sauce into her her bag, or i was going to freak out about what would happen if she did.

so we bought a box of pasta (that we didn’t need) so she could drop a good, strong, unbreakable box of pasta onto the concrete fifteen-times-in-half-a-block-on-the-way-home.

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shopping in mt. pleasant, washington, dc
found: snacks

May 17, 2011
found: solitude

May 16, 2011
bubbles

May 15, 2011

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bubbles, washington, dc
found: flexibility

May 15, 2011
out: somewhere

May 12, 2011

i just found these on the camera, and i have absolutely no clue where they were taken — we’ll never fully understand the secret life of nannies.

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out: somewhere
video: buhb-buh-bub-buhbb

May 11, 2011

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZeFI2U3uqw

about fourty minutes after going to bed tonight, sparklet woke up and started doing this… lasted for about fifteen minutes until, presumably, her lower lip finally gave out.
goodbye, boyfriend

May 11, 2011

today was the final day of sparklet’s bourgening love with her nanny-share-partner-turned-boyfriend, who has set sail for the golden shores of north carolina.

his replacement (as nanny share partner, jury is still out on the boyfriend part) doesn’t start full time until August 1st, so we’re finding her some interims (again, “shares” not “boyfriends”) to keep her occupied until el español picante swoops in.

and who knows, maybe they’ll give the whole long distance thing a try — though i’m not holding out hope, because sparklet has the attention span of, like, an 18 month old. yeesh.
frito pie

May 11, 2011

God only know why this is called a pie, but you can’t argue with it being good.

The traditional way to consume frito pie, according to our resident Texan, is to slit open a bag of fritos and pour in a cup or two of chili. To eat it any other way (eg. on a plate) is, according to the Dallas Morning News, “allowable but frankly lacks street cred.”

i’m fairly certain this chili recipe was based on something i got somewhere, but what you see here has been through (quite literally) a dozen different variations in search of perfection — so even if my memory was good enough to recall its origin, a citation would be wholly unwarranted.

you can tweak pretty much anything you like about the toppings (sour cream, onions, cheese) but don’t you dare add beans to the chili. seriously. my wife will hunt you down.

full recipe after the jump.

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video: dancing at haydee’s

May 8, 2011

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiQaq7JGjs

shakira, again — at least this time it’s with the bff.