immi 2.0

I’ve been noticing that immi’s lego creations are, increasingly, showing off both her understanding of ‘real’ world and her creativity. This little truck hardly captures much (her super castle-sanctuary for zoo animals with a flower forest got destroyed before I got a picture!) but I think that it looks a kind of realistic with window in the front. Of course it’s topped with a faery wand because…it’s immi’s creation!

Immi has also been really into putting her little toy friends to sleep. She made a cozy nest for her monkey and kitty on top of the ice cream shop. She tucked in teeny tiny toys under their blanket because that’s what she likes to do for herself when she goes to sleep.

We think that she thinks that she can take things with her to dreamland as long as it’s with her under the blanket. …Why else would she insist on sleeping with seemingly random assortment of not particularly cuddly toys (wooden kitchen toys, legos, glowsticks…)?

It’s really nice out and Immi, Ashland and I walking about and wondered into a store called PaperZone. They have lots of office paper, stationary and scrap booking stuff. Immi is having fun at the crayon station.

Immi sitting at the Pearl Bakery watching his brother hanging out in his car seat.

Immi taking a walk with her dad in Pearl District.

Immi riding her giraffe with her monkey and the cat wearing her princess shoes.

Immi is beading today.

Having coffee at Flying Cat Coffee. Immi, wanted to jump up and down on the couch because her little brother was jumping up and down on his daddy’s lap. So I had to tell her that she is too big for jumping on the couch, but that big immi gets to have a super yummy organic lollipop with vitamin C in it. She was happy with the arrangement

We are at the Children’s Museum with our new friend and her 3 year old girl from a meetup group. We wanted to come here while they had Clifford the Big Red Dog exhibit because Immi LOVES Clifford (she is the one who pointed out about this event in the Portland’s newsletter!).

Immi, her dad and her brother are learning all about the history of the Big Red Dog.

Immi is playing with the translucent shapes on the light table. She is, for some reason, obsessed with the isosceles (she won’t even look at the equilateral…). She stacked up all the isosceles triangles into a neat pile and won’t let anyone else touch them.

Here’s immi at the kid-sized [pretend] grocery store.

It’s been interesting having more opportunity to watch immi interact with other kids. Immi is quite specific about what she will share and what she won’t. She is willing to share most things actually, but not the very few selected items (…like the isosceles triangles).

Immi got her immi-sized HelloKitty pillow, HelloKitty and HelloKitty-sized HelloKitty pillow and appropriately sized blankets for each of them for a [pretend] nap time.

Immi loves making play-doh ice cream. She is just getting started here, prepping her little factory.

She loves making swirls in ice cream cone and making cup full of sprinkles!

Saturday Coffee at Seven Virtues. Immi is having hot chocolate. She seems to like it a lot (I tasted it to make sure it wasn’t too hot, and it is a very good cup of hot chocolate!).

Immi is playing dres-up. Tutu and princess cape and faery wand!

Saturday Coffee at Coffee Plant. …Just adventuring Portland one coffee shop at a time

Immi woke up feeling pukey this morning We think that she is just tired, since she seems to have had trouble falling asleep last night and didn’t get enough sleep. She is finally well enough to catch up on sleep, and hopefully feel better. Oskar is keeping her company.

Amazingly, immi made a nearly full recovery by the late afternoon, but she still seems a bit tired and hiding out in the corner in between jumping around and singing.

Immi and I are having tea-and-making-things party!

Getting some very tasty bread and pastries.

I’m very happy to say, going to a bakery (it seems we’ll never run out of new ones to find!) has become part of our weekly ‘errand’

Happy End of the Year! We are having sushi at immi’s favorite place. She is no longer really cheap here though since she wants to look at the menu, and then grab whatever she pleases from the conveyor belt… She wanted blueberries and strawberries and creampuff along with her usual cucumber roll and miso-soup.

At the beginning of dinner, immi tried to order a glass of water from the waitress! She had the right idea, when the waitress came around to see how we were doing, immi made good eye contact and made pointing gesture to get noticed and said …something. I knew she wanted water, so water she got

First snow is Portland!

We went out for a drive (<– is my new blog! Todd built it for me, and I’ve been modifying the wordpress .php and .css and it’s not done but nonetheless — I won’t have to crowd immi blog with non-immi photos!) to Multinomah Falls and on the way back, we stopped by the international grocery store that we had yet to try. Immi is pushing the cart!

This store is probably the strangest grocery store we’ve ever been in. When they said ‘international’ they meant middle eastern …as opposed to asian or mexican which was more common sort of international grocery store in NoVA. So they had all sorts of things we had no idea what they were. That and they had a lot of organic and natural items we usually get from WholeFoods at better prices…Also, lots of wine from everywhere (see, weird combo no?). Immi of course found her familiar item Annie’s Mac&Cheese and wants to put it in the cart.

Immi and I are decorating gingerbread cookies (I got inspired by my friend who was building the most amazing gingerbread house. Hi Allie!! I didn’t bake these though, and they are person shaped because they were sold out of gingerbread house kits…). Immi is not much help, she just wants to eat the cookies.

Here Immi looks like she is being a perfect little holiday cheers (photo deception!), but actually just picking off frosty candies off the cookies as I try to replace them as fast as I can