going on the slide

out with dad.  being a proper Big Girl!

lilah reads the wild things

lilah reading her bedtime story (where the wild things are) and calling it "night garden."  i can't tell you how much she loves this book.  she loves to smell the monsters stinky feet when they're swinging in the trees... but her favourite part is when the monsters say (and she says it with me): "oh PLEASE don't go!  we'll eat you up we love you so!!"

check out how killer she looks in her new head-gear.

daddy's guitar

daddy's new ta-tawr, which lilah loves.

glasgow art fair

on our way to the art fair, we sat on the steps of the GoMA (Glasgow Museum of Modern Art) waiting for luisa frangescangeli.

i didn't get any pictures of lilah in the exhibition... which is truly unfortunate, because she was a stellar appreciator of many of the works inside.  but i'll give you some examples:

(the painting: President Obama on the steps in Washington, behind him the banner "Yes We Can!" -- it's roughly 5' x 5') ... lilah's reaction: "Bama!! Bama!!" really, really loud.

(the photographs: four large [2.5' x 4'] B&W portraits of greyhound dogs from the neck up.  their ears all back, so they look like funny S shapes.) ...  lilah's reaction:  "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!"  until we get to another booth.  (dad tried to hush her, but i told him to stop.  it was the best reaction those photos will ever get.  they deserved to be adored.)

(the paintings: three heavily painted (and by heavy i mean thick, goupy, inch-off-the-canvas type oil paints) landscapes)  ...  lilah's reaction: to reach out and try to grab the "tweees".

we were inside the exhibition tent for 2 hours.  lilah did extremely well!  that was her first major exhibit, and she was told by more than one of the gallery representatives that she has "art in her soul".  

aw.

quite observant, lilah.

there is a tunnel down at the river walkway, which gives off this amazing echo.  when lilah was a baby-baby, she didn't like going through it at all.  today, she loved it.  i hope you can hear her echo in the recording... if it weren't for the wind, i tell you, it would be publishable!  

anyway, there's three things you should know about this one:

1)  lilah says "running" at the beginning because there's a man (and you can just see him) running our way through the tunnel

2) she then says "doggie" after head-butting the camera because two dogs have run into the tunnel.  i had already seen them coming.

3) that pup looks almost exactly like raffey.  and she's about to lick lilah right in the face.

today, we...

...sang row, row, row your boat while walking down by the kelvin (the smaller river)

... felt very confident up high on the wall

... walked up a hill just to run down it.  again.  and again.

... found one of the friendly neighborhood cats!

kahlil rocks

just hanging out on grace's bed (grace is kahlil's mum).  playing with a prism, some fancy stone eggs, and going to sleep.