Rubric's Cube

So, we need a damn montage to catch everything we've been doing here in the pillow fort. It's like we were real sucky at karate the last time we spoke, and now we're real, like, winning tournaments and stuff. Like Daniel-san good.

But L helped catch us up (see "Solid!"). We moved! And the house is finally coming together. The clutter is gone, the mower is in the shed, the 5-yr-old neighbor girl has come to demand access to the BABY.

In the meantime, we've been messing Rowan's schedule around, but occasionally feeding him as well.

R: So, what are we having tonight, Padma?
L: Rice cereal....you know, rice cereal. It's damn rice cereal in water. You know that. It's what you had last night? you always smear it all over your face?...jeez.
R: Is that artisanal water?
L: Duh.

After painting for awhile and moving for awhile we went de vacaciones for awhile. It was much needed, and we had an awesome time. The S-Bs hit up Asheville. L surprised me with the location of our weekend getaway (partly b/c my bday is coming up), which was way dulce.

We stayed in a cabin on an organic farm in Western NoCacks. It had a private hotsprings sauna thing, and a full kitchen, etc. It was awesome. It even had a full stock of recent movies to watch. Baffling movies. Movies that make you wonder who signs the checks. Anyway...there was a tiny intrigued lizard friend at the Biltmore Estate, just about a half hour outside of the hot springs.

When we got there, L was all like "Don't take my foto you bozo...for serious, you're such a crumb!" And then I took her foto.

R was all like, "I'm looking at something else anyway. Let's hit the hot tub, son."

But seriously, R loved the hot tub.




Not having internalized societal messages that "getting back to nature" is good, R had fun splashing in the water and being carried through the bucolic splendor around him in a way he will only be able to overemphasize much later in life.

But, he did seem to dig it.

The Biltmore is about 8k acres. There is a petting zoo, a huge mansion, and a winery. We hit two out of three (you do the math).

R was great all the way through the tour, even when we got to the laundry maids' quarters and the early 20th century state-of-the-art gymnasium.



I multi-tasked, pretending to be an umbrella, and we wandered the approach to the mansion as well as the English style garden and the food court (where I got some ice cream).

Back at the cabin, we focused on what the S-Bs focus on most: dinos, buns and bunny ears.



But, when we returned from our "holiday," we had to finish moving. Eep! Here's a fairly representative portrait of life in our house. Lemmy (tuxedo) is watching from a safe distance, Mama is helping Ro scoot way beyond his age group and Audie (the tail in the foreground) is trying to get the hell away from newly prehensile baby-paws.

Up next!...L, M, and R acquire new digs, time-sucks, skills, and...teeth???