Pet Store, Toy Store, Etc. from Mike C on Vimeo.

We had a nice relaxing Saturday with no set plans or obligations. We ended up hitting the pet supply shop to grab some Wubie essentials. We also fit in a visit to a toy store, book store, picked up some groceries, and made some time for lunch. I managed to get some video of the pet shop, toy store, and lunch.

Note: if the video stutters, click on the “HD is On” button so that it changes to “HD is Off.”

Music used:

• “Painting And Dance” from I Advance Masked by Andy Summers and Robert Fripp

Here’s one located on an island, reached by a bridge. (Note the mice floating on cake islands.)

The other day we built a house for the mouse family which reminded me of the Guggenheim museum, hence the title of this post:

The mouse family inside their new house, they also got some furniture this build:

An overview shot, and a clue to how long it lasted:

One of Lucy’s fave books at the moment is The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr (who also wrote the beloved Mog books).

Recently we snagged a tea set with the aforementioned tiger on it. Here are some pics of Lucy sharing tea with auntie; clearly she hasn’t mastered the finer points of dunking yet.

Oh, and in my quest for the teaset I discovered that there is actually a play based on this book.

Don’t know how they can stretch it out to an hour’s worth, unless there is a toddler on the side of the stage saying ‘again!’ everytime they get to the end…

Lucy gathered her friends together for a tea party, complete with musical accompaniment on her guitar and drum, dancing, and reading material for her guests.

Lucy has been getting more interested in her dolls, and consequently, she wants to carry them just like Mommy. So I got her a doll wrap!

How did I know? She points to a dolly, then grabs ones of my wraps. (Gmommy asked if she feeds dolly just like Mommy , and the answer is not yet! )

It’s not the best wrapping job in the world (look how dolly’s head is sticking out the side in the above pic!) but she generally wants it off after 5 minutes anyway.

Miss Lucy is beginning to take more interest in her dolls. She has one small baby-doll which she carries and rocks, and a couple of these soft dolls too.

This pic was taken on a very hot day, so she was wearing a summery dress for the first time this year.

And look what her dolly is wearing — a very similar summery dress! (Thanks to Gma Karen and Gpa Tom for Lucy’s dress!)

We celebrated Mother’s Day today in SF chez Omie (the gray cat). He was an excellent host, darting here and there, showing off his acrobatics. Lucy was quite taken with him and his sis, and can be seen below sporting an “Omie” sticker as a member of his fan club.

It was wonderful to have the whole family together at once, we are especially thankful Gmommy is out of the hospital. So we had quite the shindig–pizza, cake, and lots of presents. Lucy had her 16 month birthday today too, she is growing up so fast! Sigh.

More pics of our day here. Addendum: even more great pics from Auntie Laura here!

Lucy has a love/hate relationship with balloons.

She is always noticing them, and loves to point at them in the supermarket. However, when offered an actual balloon, she is slightly hesistant. And if the balloon is actually a glove, she will get really scared. Almost as scared as she gets of vacuums (and even vacuum-like things, like the one on the Teletubbies.)

Her fave balloons by far are these on this Rube Goldberg website for Hema. She could watch this all day and night!

Lucy and three of her dollies had a book club meeting. Topics for discussion included how heavy the book was, how easily the pages ripped, and how well the cover tasted.

p.s. These three elder dollies are a bit delicate, so they only come down off their shelf for gentle events like book clubs and tea parties.