more people to anticipate my every whim 

These two little girls belong to the nice university family (their parents are an astrophysicist and a paleontologist) who sold us a lot of their furniture and trimmings, before moving off to Oxford. This large pillow is one of the things that we took. The little twins were very kind to Jacob, patting his bald pate very tenderly, and generously sharing their toys with him (perhaps not realizing at the time that he was going to be carting off a large portion of them in the bottom of his pushchair). But I am sure they have some nice new toys in Oxford.