Desmond was pretty excited to visit the tooth doctor again, and even learned it’s the same person as the dentist! 🙂

Apparently an episode of “Paw Patrol” was more engaging than the surrounding gadgetry. Also, an eyewear trendsetter.

The family has spent many a happy breakfast or dinner over the years at Dixie Quicks. It was one of mom and dad’s go-to brunch spots for weekend dates (they dated? a life before kids?) when it was still over in Omaha. Dad’s arts non-profit occasionally held board meetings in the gallery. Now also a favorite with the kids, it had become known as “let’s go have breakfast with the dinosaurs” for the interactive table decor.

After the passing of his partner–and chef, Rene–to lung cancer last year, Rob made both the difficult and liberating decision to close the restaurant and art gallery after 23 years. It was another loss to mourn, but a certainly need for one last dinner.

Eleanor gets in on the dinosaur action-

She may have gotten a little too “ferocious”

(Big) squirrel!

Eleanor was not a fan. She eventually settled into a love/hate rhythm- pleading to go back over, even touch it. And then freak out again.

Eleanor staring out the window onto Broadway. (Across the street happens to be “Lidgett’s Music”- of which dad was the first employee to work there without the last name “Lidgett.”)

One last dinner, peering up at the chalkboard for the menu. Mom had the cactus scramble, dad the shrimp gumbo. The kids scarfed their black beans and rice.

“Sauna: A portrait of a father and daughter” The new pre-bedtime routine as Ella gets over the croup