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This is how I found my children this morning in the kitchen after I got off the phone with Dan. Emma perched on the counter getting cereal bowls and asking Mary if she’d had her vitamins. Mary making herself at home with her paws buried in the box of cereal. Trust me, this is not the first time I have walked in on a scene similar to this one.
Breakfast was followed by a girly fashion show. Emma often disappears upstairs, only to come down in some outrageous getup for her big reveal. This one was pretty tame as her outfits go. Mary, of course, got in on the action too.
(and for the record, the red pumps are NOT from my closet!)
This is how I found my children this morning in the kitchen after I got off the phone with Dan. Emma perched on the counter getting cereal bowls and asking Mary if she’d had her vitamins. Mary making herself at home with her paws buried in the box of cereal. Trust me, this is not the first time I have walked in on a scene similar to this one.
Breakfast was followed by a girly fashion show. Emma often disappears upstairs, only to come down in some outrageous getup for her big reveal. This one was pretty tame as her outfits go. Mary, of course, got in on the action too.
(and for the record, the red pumps are NOT from my closet!)
art with children
I sat down today to dowload pictures from my camera and 21 of the 29 shots were not taken by me. I am seeing a trend in emma’s photography subject-matter: Henry and her sisiter. But it is funny to see the things she’s taking pictures of–the dirty laundry in the basket, the piano, a closeup into one of her dollhouse rooms, henry, henry, henry….
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I have to admit that I wasn’t thrilled about moving here to Wisconsin three years ago. I had all those wisconsin sterotypes floating around inside my head–starter jackets and flannel, beer and brats, cheeseheads and nasal accents. Wisconsin definitely has its share of those things, but the longer we’ve lived here the more I’ve been pleasantly surprised by our little community on the lake. The art museum is one of those surprises. Last week I took the girls to a new installation called the "ARTery". It is a giant sun-filled room dedicated to giving children an opportunity to create their own artwork. The theme this month is dreamscapes and all the projects fit within this theme–from wild sculptures and bubble machines, to sitting inside a miniature house recording your dreams onto tape. Emma had a wonderful time painting and creating a giant vase covered in pompoms, buttons and silky ribbon,and filled with pink, purple and orange tissue paper flowers. (okay, I got involved too, of course!) And Mary enjoyed sitting in a sunny corner on brightly colored sofas looking through all the books (and tearing out the front page of one. yikes!)
And finally, here are some pictures of my latest (unfinished)sewing project. I am trying to duplicate some dresses that the girls got for Christmas. Basically they are made by cutting off a tshirt and attaching it to fabric with a gathered empire waistline. They are adorable,but my first try did not quite work. I am a wing-it kind of sewer and I didn’t cut enough fabric to get all the gathers that I wanted, and I don’t like the staight lines of the skirt. I will have to improve for my next try. Luckily, I found the tshirts for two dollars and the fabric is from my stash. I added the ribbon in the back to cover up a little mistake. This is one of the projects my girlfriend and I were working on. Next time I think it would be wiser not to BEGIN my sewing project at 10:30 at night.
(sorry for the poor lighting, I was taking these in my laundry room.)
I sat down today to dowload pictures from my camera and 21 of the 29 shots were not taken by me. I am seeing a trend in emma’s photography subject-matter: Henry and her sisiter. But it is funny to see the things she’s taking pictures of–the dirty laundry in the basket, the piano, a closeup into one of her dollhouse rooms, henry, henry, henry….
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I have to admit that I wasn’t thrilled about moving here to Wisconsin three years ago. I had all those wisconsin sterotypes floating around inside my head–starter jackets and flannel, beer and brats, cheeseheads and nasal accents. Wisconsin definitely has its share of those things, but the longer we’ve lived here the more I’ve been pleasantly surprised by our little community on the lake. The art museum is one of those surprises. Last week I took the girls to a new installation called the "ARTery". It is a giant sun-filled room dedicated to giving children an opportunity to create their own artwork. The theme this month is dreamscapes and all the projects fit within this theme–from wild sculptures and bubble machines, to sitting inside a miniature house recording your dreams onto tape. Emma had a wonderful time painting and creating a giant vase covered in pompoms, buttons and silky ribbon,and filled with pink, purple and orange tissue paper flowers. (okay, I got involved too, of course!) And Mary enjoyed sitting in a sunny corner on brightly colored sofas looking through all the books (and tearing out the front page of one. yikes!)
And finally, here are some pictures of my latest (unfinished)sewing project. I am trying to duplicate some dresses that the girls got for Christmas. Basically they are made by cutting off a tshirt and attaching it to fabric with a gathered empire waistline. They are adorable,but my first try did not quite work. I am a wing-it kind of sewer and I didn’t cut enough fabric to get all the gathers that I wanted, and I don’t like the staight lines of the skirt. I will have to improve for my next try. Luckily, I found the tshirts for two dollars and the fabric is from my stash. I added the ribbon in the back to cover up a little mistake. This is one of the projects my girlfriend and I were working on. Next time I think it would be wiser not to BEGIN my sewing project at 10:30 at night.
(sorry for the poor lighting, I was taking these in my laundry room.)
family
I cannot tell you how many times, in the last few days, I have pulled up to the computer to write a new post–only to be called away by crying children, telephone calls, or a dog scratching at the door to go outside.
For the last several days I have had a close girlfriend from college visiting. We’ve stayed up way too late, laughed til mascara streamed down my cheeks,and gotten crafty together. It was a wonderful time, but I’m still recovering from it all. I must be getting old–staying up past 10:30 is just too much for my body to handle.
Mary has also come down with a cold in the last few days. And I’m starting to think that my children have some sort of gene for a sensitive gag-reflex. Both girls are/were pukers, especially when sick. If I dare to let them cry too long they make me pay. Thankfully, Emma is no longer at this stage, but Mary is really letting me have it this week. If I include my dog in the count, I have cleaned up "nasty-ness" seven times in the last four days. I have washed Mary’s crib bumper so many times that the seams are now frayed.
But, we’re moving on and Mary is slowly improving. Although at this point she sounds like she’s been hitting the cigs for the last 23 months of her life.
I have some pictures to post from this week, but for now I’m going to post some that Emma has taken. She has discovered the joys of digital photography and this afternoon she was wandering around the house snapping shots. She even knows how to switch the camera over so that she can view all of her pictures. Isn’t it amazing how quickly our children become comfortable with technology?
So here are some of her shots from today. She is having trouble keeping her fingers off the flash, which I think accounts for the orange. Either that or my battery is running very low. I think her taking digital pictures is the modern day version of me running around with a tape recorder when I was little–dramatically reading advertisements in the newspaper, singing along to We Are the World and Keith Green on the record player and recording the sound of the toilet flushing while giggling in the background at my ingenious sense of humor.
(You’re allowed to wear outfits like this when you have a high fever and snotty nose.)
(Dan has to watch the game standing up because the TV is so small)
(I love how she photographs things that are important to her, like her dollhouse.)
( I asked her what this was…she told me she took off one of her doll’s clothes and took its picture. Should I be concerned?)
More pictures to come soon from me, this time. And hopefully some shots of a finished sewing project and a cleaned out craft cupboard.)
I cannot tell you how many times, in the last few days, I have pulled up to the computer to write a new post–only to be called away by crying children, telephone calls, or a dog scratching at the door to go outside.
For the last several days I have had a close girlfriend from college visiting. We’ve stayed up way too late, laughed til mascara streamed down my cheeks,and gotten crafty together. It was a wonderful time, but I’m still recovering from it all. I must be getting old–staying up past 10:30 is just too much for my body to handle.
Mary has also come down with a cold in the last few days. And I’m starting to think that my children have some sort of gene for a sensitive gag-reflex. Both girls are/were pukers, especially when sick. If I dare to let them cry too long they make me pay. Thankfully, Emma is no longer at this stage, but Mary is really letting me have it this week. If I include my dog in the count, I have cleaned up "nasty-ness" seven times in the last four days. I have washed Mary’s crib bumper so many times that the seams are now frayed.
But, we’re moving on and Mary is slowly improving. Although at this point she sounds like she’s been hitting the cigs for the last 23 months of her life.
I have some pictures to post from this week, but for now I’m going to post some that Emma has taken. She has discovered the joys of digital photography and this afternoon she was wandering around the house snapping shots. She even knows how to switch the camera over so that she can view all of her pictures. Isn’t it amazing how quickly our children become comfortable with technology?
So here are some of her shots from today. She is having trouble keeping her fingers off the flash, which I think accounts for the orange. Either that or my battery is running very low. I think her taking digital pictures is the modern day version of me running around with a tape recorder when I was little–dramatically reading advertisements in the newspaper, singing along to We Are the World and Keith Green on the record player and recording the sound of the toilet flushing while giggling in the background at my ingenious sense of humor.
(You’re allowed to wear outfits like this when you have a high fever and snotty nose.)
(Dan has to watch the game standing up because the TV is so small)
(I love how she photographs things that are important to her, like her dollhouse.)
( I asked her what this was…she told me she took off one of her doll’s clothes and took its picture. Should I be concerned?)
More pictures to come soon from me, this time. And hopefully some shots of a finished sewing project and a cleaned out craft cupboard.)
