PIZZA WITH DAD

of course the first thing we had to do after dad had been gone so long, toiling away in deep dish territory, is get him back on track with a good old slice of the greasy stuff, new york style, folded down the middle. 

this wants to be a paragraph waxing poetic about pizza but look. i'll spare us all.

he point is i took this little series of photos on my phone, and after scrolling through them with brandon at least a five times in bed later that night and laughing every time, i decided they warranted a blog post. i call it, "no really huck, you do want that pizza. just eat it." 

(and i am sorry huck but you seem to have inherited my awful pursed lips face i make when i'm thinking about things . . . it's genetic and cannot be helped. blame your grandpa lovin.)

"yeah, that's pretty good, dad."

BUSTER'S FAVORITES

...new boots for henny this week (next to his first shoes ever)...

... peter pan and stick on nail polish...

...two hours on line at the polls were two hours well spent...

...fall in the park...

...pigs at the central park petting zoo...

...this kid is in the 10th percentile for height but the 100th percentile for rad...

...watching election results on the laptop and sending obnoxious "yes we can!" texts to brandon (his man lost, sorry babe)...

...jumping lilypads at the central park zoo...

... henny makes a good dinner for a giant spider and harry winston decorates for christmas...

....and henny takes his new snow boots for a spin in the first snow of the season...

some babble links for your weekend!

in family style:

what you should be buying at forever 21

in the great beauty experiment:

i went a full week without washing my hair 

(and emerged an entirely new person)

and tested the clarisonic mia ($100) vs the olay face brush ($20)

aaaaaand huck's blog!

A LITTLE PLUG FOR SOME FRIENDS

crazy hair natalie, swedish abba hair alison, and always perfect hair susan here,

with a little message just for you:

if you're looking for something magnificent to do between now and christmas day for all the peoples you love,

might we suggest buying a hip handmade holiday and getting your craft on? 

it's a downloadable ebook, it's filled with instructions, printables, and how-tos, it's only ten bucks, and it supports these two chicks who i love to pieces.

and now! a little video starring the yours truly.

ignore my crazy hair.

thank you again for having me, ladies! 

buy it HERE.

HUCK AT TWO UNDER THE BIG TOP!

for huck's big birthday last week, we took him to see the big apple circus. 

(blurry, but hilarious)

afterward we ran home for cake and candles and presents and tubs and bed. 

all in all, it was a pretty good day to be king henry.

and now, a little bit about henry holbrook on this his second anniversary of rocking our socks off:

• things huck likes to point out on our walks: "giants!" at the park (yes, those would be statues), fire trucks, puppies, all the puppies, and he also has a keen sense of where all the playgrounds are relative to his exact location and when we're in the area (or if we're close to church where he loves to go to nursery) he'll cry out in horror if we don't go there straight away.
• you know that one part of dumbo when dumbo starts flying and huck shouts at the top of his lungs from the ottoman, "he fwying! he fwying!" that's the best part of anything.
• speaking of, until you have seen henry holbrook flapping his wings and "fwying" from his stroller for a big kid who has his attention, you've never lived. 
• huck has the craziest attention span of any two-year-old i've ever known. we felt pretty confident that he'd make it the full two plus hours at the circus, and even after refusing a nap that day he was focused and well behaved. i'm starting to think maybe this kid is some kind of hero. 
• huck loves himself a good taco. seriously, slap anything between a tortilla and call it a taco and he'll eat it happily. "tato!"
• there is nothing sweeter in this world than the way huck says "ohh-tayyyy" when you ask him if he'd like something. oh gosh, melts my heart dead. the emphatic "no!"s are less fun, but even then i'm so in love with this new, english-speaking huck i've got here that i don't even mind. there's really nothing better than asking your kid a question and then getting a glimpse into how his little brain is working.  
• huck shows no sign of slowing down on the nursing. the boy loves to nurse. i love it too, so we've decided to keep on.
• wiping our face is the rudest. when he was a baby he loved having his face wiped but i guess nothing gold can stay.
• huck loves to brush his teeth, put on socks, try on daddy's shoes, and steal mom's underwear fresh from the dryer and wear it on his head. when i change his diaper he likes to hold the fresh diaper for me until i'm ready for it. sometimes he'll lay it dramatically over his face and say, "duck!" (only some of his diapers have ducks on them, but the ducks are apparently quite memorable.)
• huck feeds himself three-quarters of a yogurt cup for breakfast every morning, positively hates scrambled eggs, but like any good new yorker can do quick work of an egg and cheese on a bagel from the corner deli.
• he loves animals, making animal sounds, and especially enjoys animal toys that are small enough to fit in his chubby fists so they can accompany us on our daily errands around the city.
• huck likes a good slice of pizza as much as his mama (so, a lot).
• but he hates going into the j.crew passionately.
• huck has a surprisingly dry little sense of humor. he pulls these faces at me, right on the money, it's amazing. my favorite is the frown-smile when he finds something funny that he knows he shouldn't find funny. and i'm like, kid! where are you getting this from?! his comedic timing is pretty spectacular. the next couple years with this guy are going to be pretty flipping hilarious. 

oh, huck. you're it, kid. all of it.

and thus concludes the huck portion of holbrook birthday season, 

as well as the entire birthday season of 2012.

see ya next year, birthdays! 

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.