September 2007

no~! watch out, elijah!

elijah! you’re in danger!

elijah… are you aware that he’s eating you?

elijah goes to bed around 9 pm, after his bath. he sleeps for three to four hours straight at night. during those hours, i do some housework and work on my drawings. i’ve tried to draw during the day, but i find i can’t focus on either my drawings or elijah. so i decided to play with elijah during the day.

elijah has started to baby-talk more and more and shows a lot of curiosity to the world around him. i don’t want to miss any of it.

“Sailors — Friends, Lovers, or Husbands”

amazing music, beautiful film.

i still can’t believe this video has only one vote on videosift… well, it should get three votes. because paul, elijah and i love it!

jacques demy
michel legrand

watch this video on videosift.

i didn’t try to make one big cookie on purpose. it was an accident.

it wasn’t such a good idea to try to make cookies while taking care of the baby. i was having some people over so i thought it would be nice to have some home-made cookies. plus, now that i’m a mama, i should be able to make cookies canadian-style. chocolate chip cookies are the classic mama cookie, so i decided to try them first. it was supposed to be a three-step process:

• find a recipe
• get the ingredients
• make the cookies

my plan started pretty well. i found a recipe online. i took elijah to the supermarket and he gave me the okay to buy a bag of chocolate chips.

the next day, i decided to make the cookies. i fed elijah and put him down to sleep. i mixed the ingredients together, turned the oven on, and started forming the dough into cookies. from the bedroom, i heard elijah start to cry. i went and picked him up and brought him to the kitchen and put him in his chair. i gave him some toys to play with and went back to making the cookies, placing them on the cookie sheet. elijah started crying again, because his diaper was wet. off i went to change his diaper. then i realized he was hungry again, so i sat down to feed him a bit more…

quite a while later, i came back to the kitchen with elijah. the cookie dough was looking suspiciously mellow. i’d left the raw cookies on the cookie sheet on the warm stove top while the oven was preheated. i think they got a little bit cooked before i put them in the oven, and they were already spreading out and getting really soft. i didn’t really notice, i just put them in the oven.

i baked the cookies according to the recipe, but they came out really big and all stuck together. plus they were a little burned at the edges. at least the non-burned parts were tasty, even though we were eating ugly chunks of cookie. i didn’t serve my giant cookie to my guests — i gave them italian cookies that i’d bought at the supermarket.

plan B always works best.

recipe for a cookie disaster

1. gather the ingredients
2. start mixing them together
3. make funny faces and play with the baby
4. preheat the oven
5. sing silly songs and play with the baby
6. form the cookie dough and place onto the cookie sheet
7. make funny noises and play with your baby
8. leave the cookie sheet on the warm stove top
9. change his diaper
10. change his clothes (diaper accident)
11. wash those clothes right away
12. forget what you were doing fifteen minutes ago
13. feed the baby
14. burp the baby
15. wipe the baby’s mouth after he spits up
16. forget what you were doing thirty minutes ago
17. try to put him back to sleep
18. pick him up
19. change his diaper again
20. bring him back to the kitchen
21. give him a toy and try to make him interested in it
22. put the cookie sheet in the oven without noticing the cookies are already warm and melting
23. bake the cookies
24. take the cookie (only one giant cookie by now) out of the oven
25. break off the burned parts and throw them out
26. eat the leftover cookie chunks and save some for later
27. open a package of italian cookies and place some on a plate
28. voila! delicious italian cookies!