Some Girls Prefer Carnations: My ROOMMATE was the film student, not me

Sunday, July 24, 2011

My ROOMMATE was the film student, not me

Eleanor Rose turned two last Wednesday. I'm commemorating it here with some digital goodness that we captured over the weekend. More photos of our fun can be seen here, although I still need to snag the pics from Lori that she took at Nori's wading pool party. Let's start with a movie. I think I tried too hard to channel Sofia Coppola, but hopefully you won't get too dizzy. Below you can watch Nori blow out her candle all by herself. You're welcome (for sparing you from listening to us sing).

I had chemo (herceptin) on her birthday, so Ian brought the girls and some lunch to my appointment. One of my favorite nurses made the girls balloons out of nitrile gloves. A glove balloon is shown below, with the card from Azalea and a page of the raddest book in the universe.

This weekend we had too much fun, and I don't have enough energy to recount it. Hopefully you'll forgive me if I jack up the cuteness quotient. The two pictures below really do say 1,000 words. Try to hear all of them.

And finally, a movie of us enjoying a break from the midwestern heat wave with one of Eleanor's new toys. Only Ian could make bubbles a little gross.

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HeidiJuly 25, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Who else but Ian would come up with bubble poop and bubble turds!!!!! Ice cream sandwiches for birthday, why didn't i think of that? You are a genius!!!! Too cute! Glad the book was a hit! Love you all,
MOM
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BeckyJuly 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM
Happy, happy birthday to Eleanor!!
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TRUTH AND BEAUTY by Ann Patchett "'Grief isn't something to "be gotten through." It has no life of its own like that, it's just plain and simply there.'" and "History is strangely incomprehensible when you're standing in the middle of it."
THE PATRON SAINT OF LIARS by Ann Patchett "I wanted to be able to stop hoping that she would turn into something else."
MY OWN COUNTRY by Abraham Verghese "I remember the acts of human kindness that illumine our world."
IN THE COMPANY OF CHEERFUL LADIES: No. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY NOVEL #6 by Alexander McCall Smith
CEREMONY by Leslie Marmon Silko
THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery "There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature..."
A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson
THE LACUNA by Barbara Kingsolver "'Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.'"
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE by Lucy Grealy "Sooner or later we all have to learn the words with which to name our own private losses..." and "Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people..." and "Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them."
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sarah Gruen "Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse."
THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett "'I have decided not to die.'" and "Oh, I just break down then. It's like two years a doing and trying and hoping all come out at once."
THE TENNIS PARTNER by Abraham Verghese "Would that I had the chance in my sons' lifetime and my own to one day explain to them all the forces that moved me."
THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison "And then the tears rushed down his cheeks, to make a bouquet under his chin."
REMARKABLE CREATURES by Tracy Chevalier "My life led up to that moment, then led away again, like the tide making its highest mark on the beach and then retreating."
RAMONA QUIMBY, AGE 8 by Beverly Cleary "Mrs. Quimby smiled and said, 'I can tell you're beginning to get well when you act like a wounded tiger.'"
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway "You see, Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived so very much that now I can enjoy everything so well."
THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN by Kate Morton "The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe." And, speaking of hospitals: "An irony that a place relying so heavily on routine should operate so resolutely outside time's usual rhythms."
THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins "Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late."
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot "That cancer was a terrible thing."
THE THIEF OF ALWAYS by Clive Barker "Was there some way...to take back the stolen years, and live them here, with the people who loved him, and whom he loved dearly in return?"
CUTTING FOR STONE by Abraham Verghese "The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." Best book I've read in a year

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