Fire, Friends and Fun

We met up with Becca, Harvey and Alastair for a day out on Saturday. We went antiquing; which is another way of saying I went shopping for expensive used stuff. I thought everything was mislabeled, as if they added an extra zero or two to the end of the price. The broach is $95 but maybe they meant $9.50 which still seems high so maybe it’s suppose to be .95? I mean its not made of real stones, its costume jewelry. I just don’t have an eye for it but Becca, she totally gets it. A self proclaimed ‘old lady’ she can spot the treasure in the pieces that I just pass by or pass off. After she pulled the $95 broach from the case where is was lost amidst all the other shiny objects, I was able to see it, the clear and black stones winding into each other like a zebra print carefully set in tarnished silver to create a leaf, it was beautiful and I had missed it, passing its value off to mere cents. Still not worth $95 in my opinion but no longer junk as I had believed it to be. For lunch we went to a Japanese Steak house. Ali was enthralled for a few minutes as the chef tossed knives in the air and made a big fire. After he messed up a few times Becca and I were a little weary keeping our babies there, rightfully so, Alastair ended up with shrimp flung at him. It didn’t stop him from showing off his walking skills later in the day! I can’t believe he is walking and Ali is crawling, we’ve come a long way. Rob played flying baby with Ali in the mall. She went nuts for it, she laughed so much it wore her out and she fell asleep.

Watching the chef throw knives

Walking Alastair

Flying Ali

babies and daddies