We had the most amazing dinner yesterday, at the home of our friends Harry & Jacquie and their baby Max.

It was a combination of the best culinary memories of my childhood, and really healthy, vegetarian cooking: salad, home-made squash ravioli, red cabbage with cranberries, and blackberry cobbler. Plus I had an apple as part of breakfast.

Max is an extremely serious baby, roughly 2 weeks older than Levi. He did smile, especially at Jill. But mostly, he just watches everything, with a faintly quizzical expression on his face. He seems to find their cat especially facinating. After we’d been there close to an hour, he relaxed a little bit and began "talking" with us while munching on his toy. Actually, Max reminded us a lot of his Mom, who is also charming, but takes a little while before she seems to be having fun.

I loved watching Jill with Max. Especially while he was in his bouncy chair — she seemed to be having a wonderful time playing with him.