On Valentine’s Day, Secret Agent Josephine made cookies. Her pictures looked like so much fun and I’ve really been looking forward to cooking with Isabelle.

So yesterday we made cookies! Well, it turned out harder than expected but, yes, it was very fun. Isabelle didn’t do much sprinkling on the cut cookies. On the table, on the unrolled dough, and on the floor, yes. But on the cut cookies, not so much. And she didn’t quite understand the concept of gently putting a cookie onto the cookie sheet. Instead she smooshed and mangled them before placing them on the cookie sheet. Can you tell which ones she made?

And the daily comic:

Hee hee. My daily comic, continued from yesterday. Did everyone figure out what I was talking about yesterday? Or did you think, what a weird comic. What’s with her and the alligator?

Well, here he is, the monster.

Run away! Run away!

Oh wait, he’s not that big.

Yes Mr. Alligator isn’t very big at all. He’s the same size as the sheep. In fact, he’s made out of the same bed sheet as Mr. Sheep. I imagined a whole menagerie of bed sheet animals. But I’m actually quite tuckered out, what with all the climbing of trees to get away from the monster that is Mr. Alligator. Wink wink.

Making this alligator friend was hard. Yes hard, hard, hard. See his mouth? It’s not quite right. The mouth on the alligator from the book looks different. It’s a straight mouth but then goes down as it gets closer to the body. Whereas mine is just straight. I couldn’t figure that part of the pattern out. The pieces didn’t match in that area so I didn’t know what to do. I think I’ll have to try it again, make a Ms. Alligator. That is after I’ve recovered from Mr. Alligator. Whoo making friends is hard.

Oh almost forgot. He’s from 978-4391624205. That’s the ISBN-13 number. The ISBN-10 number, which I’ve used before is 4391624206. Why the two numbers? I just learned about this right now. I was looking at the back of my book and realized that number wasn’t the same as what I’ve shared here before. Turns out the copied and pasted ISBN-10 that I got from Amazon is an old standard. I always wondered why Amazon Japan had an ISBN-10 and an ISBN-13. So I went looking up ISBN-13 vs ISBN-10. But it’s confusing because you can’t find this book on YesAsia using the ISBN-13. It uses ISBN 10. Yeah…confusing.

Avocado and snap-pea pasta.

Why doesn’t Alan like the food I like?

Isabelle is so funny. I wish I had this on tape. But sometimes she does things so quickly I cannot grab a camera fast enough.

Yes. She tickles herself and laughs. And yes she actually says “tee-cull” as she’s tickling herself. Hee hee!

I keep meaning to upload videos of other things she does that make me laugh or put a smile on my face. I want to put them on here so I can always watch them whenever I want. But I always say tomorrow then get distracted. Well today, I managed to focus and actually got a few of them off the camcorder.

* Update * I’ve added a password: izzybear. I’ve decided I don’t want my videos search-able on Vimeo but I do want to share them with anyone who reads my blog. I’m new to Vimeo so I don’t think that option is available. This is the only solution I think.

**UPDATE 2** videos on Flickr now.

I had a comic all thought up to draw later after Isabelle’s nap. But then I saw a new commenter, Nichol. I clicked over and fell in love with her pillows. I’m reading all her entries. They’re giving me such a giggle.

I had to stop reading to look at her Etsy shop. And then I was inspired to draw this because I’m ga ga over Bonnie and Angst. I had to hold myself back from buying them right up. So tempting. SO VERY TEMPTING.

Guess what’s the only thing Alan ate?

Yep. The steak. That’s it. Oh wait. With rice.