1.  Ellie does not have rabies.  Nik says that since we narrowly escaped that problem, we can no longer allow Ellie to play with the raccoons in the park.*  Boo hoo.

2. Pizza was not her first solid food.  If it was, I would have chosen a spectacularly bad first food as it contained wheat, soy, and dairy (three major allergens), along with sesame (which one of her cousins is allergic to), and lots of salt and sugar.  No wonder it tasted so delicious!  We’re planning on making some relatively unconventional choices as to how Ellie will start eating solids, but pizza is too far out even for us!  (And I’m sure I’ll blog about that at some point.)

3. The great stream at our “wilderness” park?  Nik figured out that it’s actually storm runoff and not a real stream.  Sad.  No wading for us.  We have to keep looking for water.  We’ll still be able to throw rocks in, though!

4.  The movie that I referred to in this post, entitled, “Saints be praised.  She stopped“?  I was quoting “This American Tail,” – use a vaguely Eastern European accent, say, “Saints be praised. It stopped,” and then yell, “Rewease the secwet weapon!”, and you’ll probably remember it.

*Just kidding.  We really didn’t let her play with raccoons.  I clearly cannot write a blog post without sticking in a little bit of fiction!