Babar's USA

The attached video I filmed while we were in Key West visiting the Custom House. Laurent de Brunhoff, Babar author for the last 60 years, and his wife live in Key West during the winter months and this exhibit runs from February - June. According to the Gift Shop staff the author is a genuinely kind man who offered to autograph all the copies of the Babar USA books. We bought one for Audrey.

I loved Babar when I was a child and also mispronounced my whole life ("bar-bar"). I particularly liked this book for several reasons: the unique photos as discussed in the above video, the contemporary elements, the parents encouraging observations on vacation and the different culture views of Americans.

RQ's next referral prediction

RQ was spot on last month but this prediction seems overly optimistic.

China forecast is still predicting our referral for 11-20-10.

So for now we predict September 2010.

March 1, 2010 referrals

The CCAA referrals arrived today and this month they matched 6 days! It was great to rip April 6 - 11, 2006 links off today. When I woke up this morning the first thing I did was reach for my black berry to see if there were any RQ updates. I was surprised to see new information and knew then it was going to be a fun day. Before noon April 11 was confirmed in Denmark but there was still some hope for the 12th. This lead to some hilarious texting between John and I. We are cautiously optimistic and will need to know next month's result before we invest in believing this trend is true. As of 6:30PM tonight RQ has not published her BABIES post. But I saw at least 2 referrals that are 6 months old babies! Yes!! This is a new trend that has been in happening in the last several batches! Tonight there are so many very happy families in disbelief and I am looking forward to reading their stories. This may have to wait until I'm on vacation at the end of this week. Over the weekend I bought this hat and mitten set at The Spotted Goose. I just felt so good about Friday's rumor I could not resist. The Spotted Goose is next to Aglamesis where I was picking up truffles for a family dinner party Saturday night. Oh, they were a deal and will be so cute on our little girl.