Catching Up

Today's upload of photos from our camera tells me that I'm behind on a couple of things.

First, Mother's Day, March 21!  "Little Guy" bought me a rose bush with this lovely yellow bloom:

He also got me some delectable snacks from Crumbs.  The super highlight was the Black Forest Cake.

(no, the pasta wasn't from Crumbs; it was just part of the whole delicious dinner enjoyed with E's company AFTER Little Guy went to bed)

Next, Little Guy can get up on all fours, can sit up on his own, and has his first tooth.

(how is he UNDER this pillow?)

A friend hosted a wonderful Easter brunch over the weekend, with outstanding coffee cake, carrot cake, frittata, roasted vegetables, mimosas w/ fresh-squeezed orange juice, strawberry salad, and more.  This picture (as usual) doesn't do it justice.

And finally, yesterday there was this:

It's not necessarily obvious what this is, so I'll help you out.  This picture was taken through our kitchen window (there are bars outside the window) and features the empty lot next to our house which, at the time, was being visited by our neighborhood's herd of goats.  We see this herd around from time to time while we're out walking, but I've never seen it stop to graze at this spot before.  However, this slope has both long grass and assorted debris - a goat's paradise.  This might make you assume that we live in a rural area.  Nope.  We definitely don't live downtown; we're in a more residential area, essentially a suburb of Ramallah.  But you can tell from this picture that we aren't in the middle of nowhere.  On the contrary, the goats are in the middle of everything: