Little Helper

Tesla's new favorite activity is to stand on the step stool and watch me cook. She likes to be able to see the counter and I give her stuff to play with. We were making valentine sugar cookies when she got ahold of the beaters!!

Meal Club

Many of you know that Marcy and Guy, Jay and I and our friends Ava and Matt have been doing a dinner club. It has been going on for almost a year! We all love it. We used to call it Meals on Wheels, but now we call it Meals on Heels due to the fact that Marcy and Guy live next door and Ava and Matt live one street over and we can walk all the meals to each other. There are so many great recipes that have come out of this and instead of trying to write them down for each other we decided to start a blog! You can find the link on the side bar. So we post our favorite dishes to share with each other and with you!

Can't decide what to make for Dinner???

Stop by the blog, use the recipes and make comments/suggestions.

Good food nourishes the body, then the mind and then the spirit! It is worth it to eat well!

Happy Birthday!

We finally had a birthday party after having to cancel on Tesla's real

birthday due to her having the flu! It was a great day filled with balloons, cupcakes, family and a gorgeous sunset!

Waiting for everyone to get here!

Wow...I got a roll of toilet paper for my first birthday!

Her cousins are eager to help unwrap the presents!

Happy Birthday little one!

Getting Faster

Everyday Tesla gets faster and faster on those little legs. Here is a video that I got of her last night. I have to try and record her in secret otherwise she just wants the camcorder so she can chew on it.

Tesla is walking!!!

Last week she was busy with things like the laundry basket..........

Today she took 10 steps!! So far I have only been able to capture a few zombie steps on video. It is so much fun to see her learning and she is so excited by it too!

Thank Goodness for the Blog

I am feeling very grateful for our blog and the many photos that we have of Tesla on here. My laptop crashed and nothing is recoverable. That is where I had almost all our photos of Tesla. I am grieving the photos we lost but am happy that we have these. Here are a few from earlier this summer.

Chicago Summer of 2009!

In front of the Art Institute of Chicago

Tesla and I got to go to Chicago with Jenna and Willa last month. Jenna and I have talked for years about making a trip there together. She grew up there and her mom and Carl still live there. So we thought we better take a girls trip. Tesla and Willa did so well on the plane and playing together at Jenna's Mom's house.

Chicago is one of the most amazing and progressive cities for public art and sculpture. Millenium park is absolutely magnificent. You may have heard of "the bean" it is called Cloud Gate, simply beautiful. It rained on us most of the time but that didn't stop us from touring the artworks.

One of the largest works was this series of larger than life mummy like sculptures that were scattered across an entire park. They are so stark and intriguing!

Here are a few gorgeous photos that Jenna took. Thank you Jenna for your beautiful photography and cinematography!