Ida vs. Cooking/Preparing for Cousin Deluge

We're in mad preparations for the arrival of Grace, Jim, Phoebe, Bonnie Kate, Margo and Matthew Rock . . . Ida has taken it upon herself to sniff every spice they have to eat:



Uncle Jim's coming to run the Portland Marathon, and will need to carb up . . .



... so these ladies are working on a serious meat sauce for Saturday night.



Ida says, "Power to the carnivores."



For those aficionados among you, or those who like to travel back in time, here's a couple photos of these ladies cooking almost exactly one year ago:

Get Well, Alea!

Ida is quite disturbed that a motorist ran into her friend Alea Adigweme and Alea's bicycle; she's going to be fine, but we wish her well. And Ida is not so disturbed to not take a bath in Alea's honor.

"Gooking"

You may have been wondering just what Ida is up to, in this long silence. Believe us, she needs little entertainment. She is extremely busy. (So are her parents, which is part of the problem.)



One of her favorite activities these days is "gooking"; rhymes with booking, and involves getting all of the bowls out and putting potatoes and onions in them, talking the whole time.

Arthur vs. Elsie

Ida looked on as wonder as these Bradfords came to our house, ate steak and chocolate ice cream, and then battled like two mastodons:



This whole family, even Baby Theo, are heading to Italy.

Travel safe, as they say.

Ida vs. Spoons, Sandpaper, Colorblindness

For those who said "it's called a spoon" after the last post...



Ida eats "gogurt."


Here she is helping her mom with a sanding project:




IN a serious note, some worry that Ida is colorblind and will have to go to colorblind school and get a guide dog. But Chandler says Ida is not colorblind.

yogurt, Old Dad, etc.

For his birthday, Ida peed in the toilet for her Dad. Unfortunately, or fortunately, we did not capture this on film. Instead, here's some yogurt eating:

Old Friends vs. Ida

It'd been a long time since Ida saw her old pals Alina (pictured) and Anya (who took this photo and countless others); boy, nothing like playing with big girls.