less space for eating and more space for crawling

So Elliot isn’t crawling yet but we are already preparing for baby proofing and making more room for him to crawl around.  This weekend we headed over to Lynne, Jake and Morris’ place for their second annual tur-duck-en party.  The party was fabulous and our gracious hosts were able to find tabels and seating for all 20+ people.  It was a perfect opportunity for us to come full circle on a furniture swap that started last October.

Last October Lynne gave us her coffee table.  Rocky had chewed ours and Lynne didn’t have room for hers after her move.  It actually will transition really well for us as it is big and oval and there for very Elliot friendly.  The thing that wasn’t working for us was our dining table.  We really liked it but it just took up too much space.  So when Lynne needed seating for the Tur-duck-en day it was a perfect opportunity to return her gift.

Since our table and chairs now reside in Lynne’s fabulous loft. We need a new one, FAST!  Thanksgiving is this week people.  Our criteria include, dark wood or stain-able and  small.  Did I mention small?  We are trying to use just two chairs and Elliot’s high chair.  We looked at different tables that had leaves in them and some that were just really tiny…James really wanted a bar height table.  I was worried that it would just feel too big in our space.  James finally decided on this table and it is pub height.  I am a little worried about Elliot’s cute little hi chair being to low but James was adamant.  We will have to figure out the whole high chair thing.

This table is 48×23 inches which makes it a foot shorter each way than our old table.  To save even more space we are going with stools that can tuck under the table.

patty cake patty cake bakers man

My mom (aka Grammy) is visiting us for a week.  Yesterday she made James homemade buns from my grandmother’s recipie.  She let Elliot help her poke the dough down afer it raised the first time.  Pretty good for an alomst three month old baker.

Elliot baking buns with Grammy.

Ok here it goes….

After some encouragement from two very special people I have decided to post.  They said, “just tell us about one thing.”  I’m going to do that but I may actually give you more than one thing.

Thing One -THANKSGIVING… we were here in the ATL this year as we thought James was going to have to travel to Auburn, Alabama for work the day after thanksgiving.   (Thankfully he didn’t have to head out of town and worked on the condo all weekend.  More to come on this project.)  As I was cooking I was thinking of all the things I am thankful for and one of the major things that I am thankful for is WONDERFUL friends.  I was feeling very sentimental about this but I really do have the best friends in the world.

Thing Two… KitchenAide Mixer….I’ve been saving up gift cards from our wedding and I have been trying to decide what to buy.  I love all things kitchen related but you see our kitchen is the size of a postagestamp and we have three tiny  closets in our entire condo.  I have been wanting a kitchen aide mixer for years now and I think i am going to finally do it.  The thing holding me back…well really there are three…they are so darn expensive, were to store it in our postage stamp,  and if I have one I am going to want to use it all the time and that will counteract my healthy eating. 

Thing Three… Daring Bakers…an online community of bakers that have a challenge every month.  Sounds fun.  But you have to apply and provide a link to your blog.  I don’t talk about food on my blog really. Maybe i should start.