Obsession, part II

Iris continues to ask to nurse, despite having been cut off from that particular tap for some time now. I decided to try a new tack, explaining to her that only babies nurse and that she is a big girl. She seemed somewhat interested in this line of reasoning, so I decided to push it further and suggest that she could nurse her babies. Iris is a very solicitous, if physically somewhat careless, mama to her dolls: she generously offers them drinks from the favored yellow cup, but will then fling them again and again into their bed until sheer force arranges their tiny limbs into the configuration she has in mind. So she considered my suggestion, hopped off the sofa, and trotted back with this:


which she then very tenderly stuffed down my shirt.

The obsession continues

We've been trying to teach Iris about stop lights, the classic lessons about green meaning go, red meaning stop. Helpful information to an urban child. She has taken to this with great gusto, which is why I found myself out on the corner at 5:15 this morning with Iris, watching the lights change. As soon as the light became green, she'd start "Yellow coming? Yellow coming? Yellow coming?" the entire time the light was green. Red, for some reason, she can wait out.

Here's Iris enjoying a bedtime story:


And exclaiming with joy because it featured an elephant:

New kitchen

Reference pictures for Jo and John. Not for everyone (unless you're really interested in what W. Phila kitchens looked like c.1960).

Floor plan:


"Summer" kitchen:



EIK:

Looking north, toward the dining room. You can see the built-in cabinets to the sides (wood doors).


Windows, facing east. Radiator also on this wall.


Door to the summer kitchen. The windows are now to your left. Facing south.


Fridge, next to door to summer kitchen.


If we remove the baseboard, would there be enough room to scoot the fridge over and build a box for it? See above photo showing current relationship of fridge to molding.


Skipping the bathroom door (next to the fridge), the first in the series of built-in cabinets on the west wall.


These built-in cabinets angle towards the basement door.


Now facing north again. Built-in hutch.


Bonus pictures - the deck of baby death! Yes, that's plain old metal pipe.