New Favorite Pizza Place

We ordered a pizza from Zing Pizza tonight. And it was a smashing success. They offer four pizzas at any given time. Tonight we got half cheese (the John Dough) and the other half the Blue October. And it was wonderful!

First of all, it totally delicious. The Blue October was an amazing combination of fresh ingredients while still tasting like pizza. I will be sad to see this one inevitably rotate off their menu.

The pizza comes in a rectangular shape roughly 1 foot by 2 feet. The price struck me as a bit steep, but since we usually order Upper Crust for our "fancy" pizza, I took it as par for the course in Cambridge for gourmet pizza. However, what you get is practically the equivalent to 2 thin crust pizzas. So the $19 that it cost to have it delivered (including the $2 delivery fee but not including tip) seems very reasonable.

I also am a fan of thin crust pizza that isn't droopy, since I want to be able to put a slice of pizza in front of my 2 year old and watch her eat it. I don't want to have to feed it to her because her small hands can't keep it from collapsing all over the front of her, or worse, the floor or carpet or furniture which is often where the pizza gets eaten when we're in a "pizza party" frame of mind. And I don't want to have to cut it up into pieces. I just want to hand her a piece of pizza and not watch her struggle. And not only did she handle the pizza like a pro, she couldn't get enough. Literally, after our friends left, I kept nibbling on a small wedge here and a left-over square there and each time she would spot me in the midst of my first bite and commandeer the slice. I was very happy to see her eat so much.

And last but not least, I LOVE their eco-friendly practices. They use organic and local ingredients whenever possible and compost all of their waste.

So Zing has done right by me and has replaced Upper Crust as our "go to" fancy pizza place. Visiting friends and family will no doubt benefit greatly from this discovery.

Auric at 3 months

Check out my little green sweet pea! Auric turned 3 months old on Wednesday. It is a joy to watch him develop and become more engaged and engaging. His smile is so infectious. And he seems like such an easy-going baby that sometimes I can lure him out of fussiness crying just by smiling and making faces at him.

A memory I want to savor so I'll record it here: the other night, I was rocking him in my arms, lulling him to sleep before putting him in his bed. His eyes were heavy, the lids falling, lifting, then falling again. He was sucking on his orange pacifier. His face mostly buried in the crook of my elbow. Then, as if to take in his surroundings, he opens his eyes, focuses in on my face, gives me a big, tired smile that threatens to send the pacifier to the floor, and then puts his head back into my arm and closes his eyes. Within a minute or so I had him in his bed and was tip-toeing out of our room. The moment was surprising and wonderful, as if he were giving me an baby-equivalent to a good night kiss. Awww. I could eat him up sometimes!

Auric Wears First Cloth Diaper

Incredibly, Auric and Thora are both wearing cloth diapers. I mean the exact same ones! These Knicker Nappies One Size Diapers are great! Here, Auric is wearing his snapped to the smallest size. (He's about 10 or 11 lbs right now. When Thora wears it, she has it on the largest setting. She's around 36 lbs.) You can find them online, but for those of you near Somerville who want to save on shipping costs, you can get them at the cloth diapering store, Diaper Lab. We recently made the trip to Diaper Lab when we ran out of these Imse Vimse Flushable Liners. I was excited to visit this store for the first time and am looking forward to using them for our future diapering needs. They also carry these Kissaluvs cloth wipes which we recently got to add to our cloth wipes collection. They work really well, are a great size and thickness, and I love the smooth side for Auric's newborn skin.