for roo, who is learning how to drink from an open cup (actually a plastic shot glass.) i love watching him learn: how he stares the glass down, takes it with both hands, rachets it toward his face with such concentration that each centimeter it rises is a discrete movement and then how, just when you think he's got it, he flings both water and cup (clatter! splash!) over one shoulder and grins: mission accomplished.

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for lemon cake and coffee during naptime. 

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for the local fruit market (our source for the kind of cheap, ugly produce suitable only for pulverizing into one of our family's four major food groups: sauces, jams, pestos and guacamoles) and for this recipe for triple ginger nectarine jam.