we/are/warren

After a week of Dell assuring us she had no interest in meeting Santa she cracked. A few minutes ago (Christmas eve) she let us know we needed to pay the bearded elf a visit. The real deal, full white beard in play. Hohohoho.

Now the not so Xmas part of it is that they charge 20$ per photo and no cameras are allowed. Easy to forgive and forget. David sedaris should try having children, it definitely gives it a more snowy and happy gloss.

That makes everything complete with watching Charlie brown Christmas, Die Hard, the grinch, polar express and more. Dell said Santa can visit but the elves can not.

Not sure what this means or where it came from. Over coffee (and after about 7 hours of Xmas music) Della gave the above statement. Beach boys Xmas? The 8bit Xmas? Something inspired it.

The slide looked choice.  It was new, steep and had this REI ‘climb me’ look going for it (the new trend in kids playtoys at the park).  Because the slide was too steep, I rode down with her like I have a million times. At the bottom of the slide she erupted in tears.  At the time we thought it was fear, but quickly noticed she wouldn’t walk on her leg.  After heading home, many calls to a consulting nurse …. we’re going to roll with the idea that it’s a bad sprain.  Keep her off it, ice it, wrap it and let her watch the Muppet show nonstop.

Sunday came and she still wasn’t walking at all.  In the wild, toddlers never stop moving … ever.  So this was pretty strange.  After a 5 hour visit to the doctor on a holiday the Xray showed that Della had a Spiral fracture of her right tibia (the shin).  Toddler bones are a little different than adult bones, they bend.  So on that ride down the slide Della probably caught  her foot on the side and twisted her ankle which made the tibia break.  The break is pretty clean, she didn’t walk on it at all.  So recovery time will be about a month or so.  She already picked the hot pink cast … it’s being put on Thursday.

Guilt.  Can’t avoid parental guilt.  Especially when there’s no one really to blame.  I’m going to call the school up and let them know the new REI style slide probably should have a warning about going down doubles.  In the meantime, give D your best thoughts!  I’m going to bet she’ll start getting stir crfazy pretty soon.

Della was a fairy for Halloween.  She spent the day (and many before and after) wearing this costume everywhere.  Sometimes with the wings, sometimes without.

This year she got the whole ‘trick or treat’ concept.  We ended up at a park and all around our block.  People were very generous to her trick-or-treat bag (shaped like a cat btw).

This is probably the last year we will be able to get away with her candy vanishing.  She didn’t eat anything except for the granola bar.

The works below are not for sale.  Best known as Della’s ‘line’ and ‘ball’ phase.  This was an era of her career where she focused a lot of energy on the concept ‘ball’.  That everything looks like a ball … fruits cut in half, circles on the ground in chalk, the sun, the moon.  All balls.

“Balls, Me “. Ink on paper. 061708.

“dog, balls”.  Ink on paper.  061808.

PS. We know there hasn’t been much up here since (!) January.  There will be some back pictures from the months and a few stories too.