HAPPY WEEKEND, WE'VE NEARLY MADE IT!

and here we have huck, accurately reflecting the way january makes all of us feel, inside.

oh but it's almost over! we've made it to the last weekend! january . . . i don't know you're just a jerk january.

but here is some more good news! tonight, we are finally seeing the new bond movie. date night, what-what! and also this: peanut butter m&ms and welch's strawberry fruit snacks go surprisingly amazing together. 

on family style this week:

WHAT YOU SHOULD BE BUYING AT FOREVER 21 THIS WEEK

WOULD YOU WEAR A BOW IN YOUR HAIR?

11 GOOD-LOOKING, GOOD-FOR-YOU SHOES

and on the great beauty experiment:

BEAUTY CRUTCHES: COULD YOU GIVE YOURS UP?

HAPPY WEEKEND

it's the end of the week. we made it! 

BUSTER'S FAVORITES + ALL THE NEWS

it has been quite a week, hasn't it? lots of big news on the sandy front today (power back on! marathon canceled! benefit concert!), but instead i thought i'd share the news in the holbrook house... you know, clearly unimportant news in the grand scheme of things but what does this look like to you, cnn or something? 

here first, are some of buster's favorite shots from the week:

and now! terribly unimportant news from our house!

soooo.. today i bought stroller hand muffs. stroller hand muffs i said. it's the smartest thing i've ever done. they're actually motorcycle gloves, but who's counting. i also bought a cup holder for the stroller today. it's suddenly really swanky to be my stroller. (i'm being lighthearted here, but shoot, this does excite me.)

and here's something else exciting: brandon told me last night that he plans on letting his beard grow in while he's out of town on his training assignment, and YES! orange beards for me! i've missed that orange beard pret-ty badly since brandon graduated and got all 'employed' and 'respectable' on me.

last bit of news for the day: thanks to huck and his exposure therapy methods i can now sit through an entire showing of dumbo without crying. (twice a day, this child!)  just now i started to ask huck if he wanted a snack, but he interrupted me and said, "duh-doh? ohh-tayyyyyy." so. gosh dang it duh-doh.

BUSTER'S FAVORITES

what we've been up to lately:

brandon's older brother and his family are in town this weekend 

to celebrate our niece taylor's 16th birthday. bully for you, T!

we've covered most of the island by foot and tomorrow we are braving the chinatown.

wish us luck!

KISSES FROM THE DICTATOR

kisses from "the dictator" are a natural mood enhancer, you know.

AND A HAPPY NERDY US HISTORY WEEKEND TO US!

and the holbrooks are off! we're taking a mini US history road trip for an extended birthday weekend excursion (a few years ago we did something similar--birthday road trips are really fun, you should try it). for the occasion, mazda's lent us a very  rad, very electric blue mazda 3 for the weekend (we will not be losing it in any parking lots). we're hoping to bottle up some of this lovely early fall weather and see the historic sights of philadelphia, washington d.c., maybe some virginia, hopefully some amish country too. this is something i've wanted to do for a long time, ever since we moved back to the east coast. just two history buffs in a borrowed blue car with a mostly amenable toddler... it's going to be one really nerdy weekend. i'm excited!

here are some babbles to keep you entertained while i'm gone

i did a series of "how i wear my ..." posts for levi's

day one, day two, day three, day four

and what you should be buying at forever 21 RIGHT NOW

TALLER BABIES

huck and i spent our afternoon yesterday on an organizational spree. every cupboard and drawer and storage box and closet, sweeping out the dust bunnies, putting away the summer shorts, and trying on old sweaters to see if they'd fit. we came across his halloween costume from last year, and just as i was about to let the "my baby's so big!" blues drown me in sorrow forever, we slipped it on him and i realized he's not as much bigger as i figured. it fit like a glove! as did all of his sweaters from last year, too... 

i scratched my head for a minute. i swear he has gotten taller.... 

of course he has, except that sometimes i forget just how really really, really fat he was back then. like, soooooo fat. the fattest baby. all tasty and sugary. so all this old stuff that fit him tight across his belly then fits him just a little short in the arms now. it's kind of hysterical. and super depressing and is this the little boy i carried? and et cetera.

huck was so thrilled with his lion suit that he asked to wear it for his nap. i said yes because of course i was planning to never take it off of him ever again for the rest of his life. loooooook at hiiiiiiiimmmm!

BUSTER'S FAVORITES

buster thought this post had too many photos in it too.