Mary; Samuel; carrots; Samuel; Samuel

Happy birthday to Mary, who’s, what, thirty-three? Pretty old. Martin bought her a “unicorn” cake with an upside-down cone on top.

In Mary’s honor, Karin took these photos of Samuel:





A few days ago, for the first time, we gave him solid food: a jar of minced carrots.


Then Karin put this on Facebook and got quite a response:


And this just goes to show how, when you have a baby, you can start out writing about one thing (your sister) and end up writing about something else (your darling, darling baby).

Tonight we put the boy to sleep using Ravi Shankar’s Three Ragas. He kicked and cried at first but ultimately succumbed to the hypnosis of the sitar.