Ben's Rube Goldberg machine

Ben has been watching the following video on youtube a LOT.



He's been designing his own "fancy machines" in his head. The following one might be difficult to build--it involves blasting off in a space ship and dragging Saturn back to Earth, for one thing. I think the Earth blows up at some point, too. But most exciting: it involves compost. I think we've been in Berkeley too long...

Eleanor scoots!

Eleanor has figured out how to scoot on Ben's underused scooter, and she can really go.

The Tea Party Riot of 2010

Eleanor really enjoyed the tea party we had this afternoon, and protested its end vociferously.

Another video of Eleanor singing.

On the way back from Yosemite

In the car on the way back from Yosemite. Not a great video, but it does capture Eleanor's unique voice these days. Very toddler-Tom-Waits.

Negotiations with Ben

It's very hard to get Ben to do anything these days, so I tried hard-nosed bargaining combined with battery-operated bribery. We'll see if it works tomorrow.

Ben and Eleanor play in a fort we built in the living room. Kindly ignore the marker scrawled on Eleanor's mouth...