My daughter's vocabulary so far

Hi
Bye
Hair
More
Thanks (pronounced Ta)
Hat
Hot
Oh!
No
Wha'this?
Yay!
Wow!
Mama
Daddy
Milo
one
two
Elmo
ABCDE
Moo
Baa
cockadoodledoo (pronounced roorooroorooroo)
poo
towel
baby

Shrinky the Bear says:
Judge not lest ye be judged...motherfucker.

Best Frosting Ever (And I Don't Even Like Frosting)

Here's my mother's Mocha Cake recipe. When she started to go downhill with lung cancer, I made her this cake for her birthday which she enjoyed.

Mocha Cake Recipe

Ingredients
1 Sunshine orange sponge cake
1 cup half and half
2 teaspoons powdered coffee
Whipped cream
Chopped walnuts
Butter mocha frosting

Bake or buy a sunshine sponge cake
Slice in 4 layers. Pour over them with a teaspoon, a cup half and half to which 1 teaspoon vanilla and 2 teaspoons powdered coffee dissolved in a very little water have been added. Fill with whipped cream and chopped walnuts. Frost with butter mocha frosting and decorate with whole walnuts.

Butter mocha frosting
½ lb. sweet butter
6 egg yolks
1 ¼ c. powdered sugar
4-5 level teaspoons powdered coffee, dissolved in water (least amount)
1 Tbsp. vanilla

Beat butter first, then add 1/8 cup of the sugar, then the egg yolks one at a time. Add ½ cup more sugar, then the coffee and vanilla, then the rest of the sugar. Refrigerate frosted cake for about 3 hours.

Norman Rockwell?

Doesn't this picture totally look like
a Norman Rockwell painting?

You know you're irritable when the way someone types bugs you. Tap tap tap tap tap. Shut up!!!

Toddler minutiae

My daughter does not have any birthmarks.

Yesterday she discovered if she yanks at her hair hard enough, hairs will come out of her head.

"What Do You Say, Pops All Year Round" to emerge from chrysallis, God willin'

I wrote a draft of the fourth installment of What Do You Say, Pops, but never hoped to have time to draw the cartoons with my toddler running around. I floated the idea of recruiting my niece Molly to draw the pictures and she and my brother seemed open to it. I also have a partial draft of a shorter pops book insert, called, "The Wisdom of Pops."Must get specifications to Molly before her vacation.

Shrinky the Bear says,

Next time you attempt suicide, try jumping off a taller building, dummy.

It was your impressive front and backpack that drew me

Recently at the library, I was looking for a book in the open stacks reference section and one of our regular homeless patrons who wears a huge backpack was standing right next to the section that had the book I was looking for. As I slowly sidled up to him, he says (without looking at me), "Not in a million years." I guess he thought I was trying to hit on him. My ego was crushed being rejected by a transient!

I turn my head for one second

Yesterday a friend's pit bull sat on my baby.