summer took the stage for a last curtain call.
saturday, we traipsed across the lush green lawn of a historic house in a leafy north shore suburb, and watched chocolate suze get hitched in jolly rollicking fashion under the impossibly bright and burny sun. afterwards, there was coca cola, and orange juice, and fairy floss, and a fat, sprinkled krispy kreme doughnut — and that was just the kid. afterwards, her head didn’t quite spin around, but the sugar gave her enough of a buzz to carry around, for the rest of the afternoon, the enormous lollypop she charmed out of the bride.
it was still summery when we got back to the city, so we sat a while in our box seat above the town hall intersection, watching the finely-tuned ballet of crisscrossing pedestrians in the golden light. and because the box seats are actually three big corner windows in the children’s department at kinokuniya, we also kicked back, made ourselves comfy, and fashioned a small pile of books to pass the hour.
on one of the shelves, i found a book called “all kinds of families!
clams in the sea make a clammily family
lambs in the field make a lambily family
jams in their jars make a jammily family
and yams in the cupboard a yammily family
i knew that i would have to take it home with us. books are family too!
happy days to you and the mister, mrs noods! we are honoured to have been there to see the beginning of your own little family. may your fridge always be overflowing with treats.
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I adore children’s books and that one looks sooo good! Love the rhymes and the illustations.
That lollipop by the way, is just.. wow, gosh.. wow. It’s bigger than her head! Is she allowed one lick per day?
It was a great day and also great to catch up with you again and also met the little one! I am surprise she can carry that lollipop whole day, it is heavy!
It was great to see you at suze and noods’s nuptials. My other half was most impressed with the Subway sandwiches, of all things…(!?!?) Has Maeve made a dent in the lollipop yet?
oh maeve! gazing at a lollipop bigger than you with your hopeful eyes how could i resist hehe glad you and the kid made it dude!
Y: i am totally recommending this book! the drawings are amazing. almost everything — animate and inanimate — has a little smiling face on it. we are still negotiating the consumption of the lollypop.
billy: yeah! i did wrestle the lollypop away from her on the way back to the train station, and was surprised by how much it weighed. any longer and she might have had to start dragging it on the ground.
belle: good to meet you too! say hi if you see me up the street. i missed out on a subway. probably shouldn’t have started with a chocolate glazed chocolate doughnut — it really did me in for the rest of the arvo. (by evening though, we were good for dinner in chinatown and a spell in LNC dessert house.)
suze: yesss. she is quite good at making things go her way. 😀