Clara is six months old! This is prime chubby baby age--I loved this age with Luke. She's giggling and babbling up a storm, and rolling over like a champ. I spend so much of these days savoring the roly-poly weight of her and how lucky I am to cuddle this perfect little Gerber chub that we adore so much. Even when she decides that 5 a.m. is ...
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clara’s 100 days
It's been 100 days with my Clara girl! (Well, more like 115.) Like we did with Luke, we celebrated Clara's 100 days with her baptism and a teeny tiny baek-il with family. We had red bean steamed rice cake, pat tteok, and pretty pastel song pyeon; I made the excellent double-vanilla cake from Tessa Huff's new ...
baby bowl: round 2!
Hi from Clara Young! Just like that, it's already been a month--four weeks of vanilla-scented newborn cuddles, milk drunk faces, swaddle blankets and Lilliputian diapers. Like her brother, she came into the world with a head full of hair, a button nose, and powdery soft cheeks. She has perfect little oval fingernails (on spidery long fingers, my ...
2018
Can it really be 2019 already? We've spent our last week of 2018 on the couch or in the kitchen (or scattering toy trucks from one end of the house to the other, one guess as to who is doing what), thoroughly unwinding and nonstop eating and generally super enjoying ourselves, and I hope you have been too. ...
a thanksgiving round-up and some news
It's a baby musubi--for a baby musubi! Now that A Common Table has been out in the world for almost a month (phew), I can finally tell you all about this little secret we've been holding onto. B4 is on the way! This time, we're having a little girl--and we could not be more excited. Or bewildered. How does one raise these "little girls" you speak ...
more bits and bats
Today is the very last day of B2's trip to Korea! For the last week, B2 has been taking depositions in Seoul and we odd-numbered bowls have been fending for ourselves in a papa-less wilderness. For me this has meant subsisting solely on the weird-but-maybe-balanced diet of roasted Brassicas (of which B2 is not fond), ramen, and gigantic M&M ...
halloweens and first birthdays!
summertime bits and bats
Hi friends! Are you having wonderful summers? Here are just a few odds and ends from ours -- it's mostly been a sunny mix of visits from friends, recipe testing and manuscript scribbling, baby cuddles, and the occasional baked treat. I have also rediscovered the glory of regular old ice cream sandwiches, that kind with all the hubbub about not ...
baby bowl: 100 days
100 days! Last week was Luke's 100th day in this big wide world of ours. He was baptized at the church down the street, and after the baptism we had a teeny 100th day party, or a baek-il. His halmuni made Luke a miniature tteok-themed lei and a baby-crown out of silver posterboard, which has nothing to do with Korean tradition but everything to ...
baby bowl b-side: his birth story
So I was a little hesitant to share this post. I had so many emotions over the fact that Luke was born by C-section, but didn't want to write anything negative about it, because we don't want to forget for a second how fortunate we are to have had our little man, however he arrived. Still, in the weeks leading up to Luke’s arrival, I found other ...
