Love is Blind and Wine

I was still fondly recalling the Elysian Great Pumpkin Beer Festival and our own personal pumpkin beer tasting party, and I got this email about an Elysian pumpkin beer sale. Hurray!

Then a few days later I got this email canceling the sale because the entire Taproom location was closing! They still have two other locations but it was jarring. I really like that place so I hope they don't die.

Zoe was nice enough to invite me to a work party she had at her house. One of her new coworkers is a local celebrity due to appearing on Seattle season of Lover is Blind on Netflix. I picked up a couple of bottles of Love is Wine to be funny. She was amused but also seemed to be drowning in it at home. I got the impression she gets it for free or something. 

After Zoe's house we galavanted around Capitol Hill a bit.

I Now Know How to Xiao Long Bao

I was walking back from the dentist today and noticed a plethora of fungi.

This was my favorite: a water meter cover broke creating this perfect little cave for mushrooms to create their own little civilization.

Meanwhile Ern was doing some important science of his own at school.

While waiting for our table at Din Tai Fung we helped the nearby Container Store rearrange some of its merchandise.

How to Bao

Another good day for the record books.

Johnny Appleseed

It's hard to believe but after work and school I think we all enjoyed some time at home today.

I bought every apple flavor I could find and did a little taste test.

We can't throw boxes away until we thoroughly explore their potential for amusement.

One of my favorite games is to see how many balls I can stuff into Ernie's clothes.

The Wonder of the Journey

Ernie is very interested in who different objects belong to. He'll pick up a shoe, say "dada", then bring it to me. Even if we aren't going anywhere. He does this with our clothes and cups a lot as well.

With Ernie it's easy to fall into the sadness of him growing up and missing the previous versions of him but I'm starting to realize the magic of the growing up process. Each new word or new expression is a fun little surprise gift. If he stayed a baby forever we would would miss out on the wonder of the journey.

Surprise Tree

We put the Christmas tree up while Ern was taking a nap so he was very surprised and excited about it.

At Tot Lot Park I had time to consider that this was not the sort of swinging I thought I was going to be doing all day, but I'm satisfied nonetheless.