Monday, April 09, 2007

Donuts & Babies & Crafts, Oh My!

Richard was gone again this weekend, this time to Portland. It's the second to the last trip this spring, so I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And he did get on a early flight yesterday, so we actually got a real weekend night together, which was nice. After a very large dinner at the Brite Spot, we came home to a fantastic, if odd, dessert.

I bring you, a Voodoo Donut special, direct from Portland, OR, the Bacon Maple Bar.
Sooo goooood. I first got excited about this donut after watching Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, Pacific Northwest special. I know it sounds awful, but, as Richard said, "it tastes like breakfast." It's like pancakes and bacon, when your bacon slides into your syrup. Magnificent. I was almost afraid to eat it, but I'm so glad I did.

On babies (or rather, baby), Vivian is more active than ever. On Saturday night, after a lovely warm bath, I was lounging on the couch in my bathrobe, when I started to feel her kick. I looked down at my stomach, and my robe... jumped. I was in shock. I opened my robe to look at my belly, and again, it jumped. Vivian is officially kicking so hard that she can be seen (and felt) from the outside. I was so excited, I called Richard just to tell him. I think that for the rest of the evening, I just sat and watched my tummy dance.

Of course, on Sunday, when Richard came home, Vivian was much calmer, and not jumping around like a latter-day David Lee Roth. He really wanted to feel her, and she was just not cooperating. But about 1/2 hour after the Bacon-Maple Bar, she started twitching. I called him from the spare room where he was throwing darts, and told him to put his hand on my stomach. Sure enough, about 30 seconds later, she let loose a couple of karate chops. The look that came over Richard's face was amazing. I almost started to cry, I was so happy.

Vivian's dancing made me so happy, that I actually broke out the crochet hook, which I haven't done in several months. After digging through my stash, I decided to crochet the Princess sweater from Candi Jensen's Candy Babies in chocolate brown with baby blue accents. I finished it yesterday.

So yay for Baby Viv! And yay for Voodoo Donuts! And yay for my craftiness coming back!

10 comments:

dizzy von damn! said...

hooray for ALL of these things!

except the donut. i'm a little skeered of that one.

Anonymous said...

Hooray for kickage! Wait until Viv gets the hiccups for the first time- High-larious.

Oh, and that donut looks awesome. Know what I'd add? powdered sugar.

Ellen Bloom said...

Oooo yeah...I saw that same Tony Bourdaine show! Everything is better wrapped in bacon...donuts, figs, chicken liver, etc. Also, remember Regina's bacon shawl?

Anonymous said...

Yay all around! And tell Rich he's lucky, Mark refused to kick Grant for weeks. The minute he'd touch my belly Mark would settle down. I thought it was pretty funny.

There is yarn enroute for Baby Viv, but you'll have to wait to see what it will be!

Teresa Peschke said...

Yay for VIV! and Yay for Craftiness, but that donut looked like the most disgusting thing i've ever seen. I love the sweater, of course your little one will be the best dressed baby around.

WineGrrl said...

My arteries are clogging up just thinking about eating it.

Anonymous said...

Iwantthatdonutsobad.

Uccellina said...

That donut terrifies me. But as long as Vivian likes it, I guess it's a good thing.

Anonymous said...

Hooray for Viv!! And for that doughnut. It sounds incredible.

Ellen Bloom said...

Sara....more about the maple/bacon donut.

We were at the Farmers Market last night (Wednesday) and someone bought a maple log to share at our table! I soooooo wanted to run over to Phil's Deli stand and have them fry up some bacon so I could plop it on top of the maple donut!!! Hmm? Maybe tonight!