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Mom was inspired by Chef's Table with Musa Dagdeviren so she made his Turkish chopped salad and zucchini musakka with chickpeas and spiced lamb, plus some lamb and feta meatballs from our new Ottolenghi cookbook. I LOVED the meatballs.

It was an extra special week. We went on a Thanksgiving hike:



Mom made broccoli soup:


Pop arrived:

Meera's mom got appendicitis. My lucky day! I got to hang out with Meera all afternoon!




Tom, Jess, and Sophie came over for Thanksgiving dinner #2 on Friday.

I wish we'd get some more snow. I need to shovel:

Winter is off to a late start this year. Our first day on skis:



Apres ski sledding:

I baked my very first loaf of bread all by myself.

My green knife could quite cut it though.

The work of a homeowner is never done. I've been doing some repairs:

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Time to dance! Everyone to the rug. Now!

I mountain bike now. Here I am on the trails at Shevlin Park:

When I wake up from nap, I am PITIFUL. I need hugs, lots and lots of hugs.

I've been doing a lot of concocting lately.

Oh no, we are out of yellow.

What? It's dark out? Let's go pedal biking!



A little morning reading before heading to the office for the day:

Headed to the pool:


After-swim bike by the river. The Bigs are having trouble keeping up now:

After all of that swimming and biking, my tummy was really talking to me. It said, "get me a ridiculously large marionberry scone, please."

After all that, the Bigs made me cook lunch. My work is never done.

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I have mastered the art of the costume change. Here I am as a bird dog,

then an owl,

and then a giraffe. Dad really has to hustle to keep up with me now.

When not in costume, I wear overalls. The same overalls every day.

What can I say? I love them almost as much as my scissors.


Mom didn't take very many pictures of me this week. She was too busy taking pictures of the amazing breads Dad has been making. Brioche:

Pane Bianco:

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Happy Halloween! Dad out did himself this year.


Allow me to point out the finer points of my costume. Horns, ears,

and a tail!

Posing with my buds.


Watch out. I'm going trick or treating!

Giraffe in the kitchen.

Giraffe pedal biking.

Giraffe in the playground.

I wear costumes even when it's not Halloween.

And sometimes, I find clothing to constrict my creative juices. Like when I am dancing. Mom couldn't really capture my Fame like moves, so some of these are blurry, but you get the idea.





Nan cracks me up. I crack Nan up.

Dinner at Global Fusion. Thai spiced pork and beef meatballs in coconut curry sauce.

Nan had the french seared wild salmon with house greens, artichokes, pickled onions, capers, roasted peppers,warm roasted potatoes, free range boiled egg with a creamy basil dressing

and here I am with my drunken noodles.

Dad had the Fusion Korean bi bim bop bowl with rice topped with spinach, mushrooms, onions, kimchi, carrots, fried egg, bean sprouts, Gochujan sauce and rice

Mom had the crispy tuscan eggplant stack with house made marinara layered with seared spinach, fresh
mozzarella, pesto, roasted peppers, zucchini, topped with parmesan

Mom had to take 25 pictures to get this kind of OK one.


Everyone was ready to go home after dinner, then I said 'Nan, want to get GELATO?'. I ordered my own. The lady behind the counter knew exactly what my order of pink meant.

I went to Eleni's birthday party this weekend. I had the ladies chasing me. That's how I like it :).