Penguins

We took a field trip to the aquarium yesterday to see penguins. They put on quite a show!

Firsts

Motherhood has become a blur of kissing skinned knees, filling bubble baths, and snuggling little sweethearts. I spend my days cleaning up more than my fair share of bodily fluids and getting just the right number of baby kisses to counteract the madness. I run next to maniacal two year olds on trikes (who usually request the baby be put on back as a passenger.) I sing songs and clean up streaks of paint. I step on toys and tuck kids in bed (repeatedly.) It is an ongoing influx of joy, frustration, disgust, and laughter. I'm finding every day of motherhood to be humbling, overwhelming, hilarious, and fun.

On Sunday, New Fish got her first tooth. She is working on#2. She has been up on her hands and knees today trying to crawl and pulling herself into a standing position. Too many firsts for this mama! I want to slow time down and keep her little. Life just seems to pick up speed every time I wake up.

Playtime

Don't worry. I hold on to New Fish when they get to really moving.

Our Life- The Musical

Two Fish's Mom made Red Fish a book and CD of songs and finger plays for Christmas. We pretty much use it every day. We have a few instruments (but we could use a lot more) and we are adding to our favorite CD collection. We also spend a lot of time playing our piano and lately Red Fish has been requesting some violin every day. She loves to dance around me while I play and it is good for all of us.

Collage

Red Fish has been making a lot of collages with contact paper or glue sticks. We especially like using the Anthropologie catalog because it offers plenty of colors and textures.

Bummer

(Yes she is asleep.)

I'm officially bummed. It has been a rotten week for the most part. Tonight, we missed our last play because there was no parking. After driving around forever we gave up and came home. Boo. Here is hoping next week is better.

- Then I was up all night with food poisoning from my favorite restaurant. That's what I get for complaining!

Oh What A Life

Art Update

More Salty Watercolors. This is one of my favorite projects. I love the way they turn out.
















A print made from corrugated cardboard, the same way we made the bubble wrap prints. This time it made a striped pattern instead of dots.

Foam shapes, feathers, felt, yarn, seaquins, popsicle sticks, paper, paint, & pom poms glued onto an old piece of foam core I had used for a presentation.This is what New Fish does while we are making art in the backyard.

Playtime

House full of babies. Seeing these two kissing and squeezing their baby dolls makes me feel like I must be doing something right! They know babies should get a lot of kisses.

Family band

Family zoo

International Attire

Outfit from Mexico city. It was actually mine as a baby. My parents played in an orchestra in Mexico City until shortly before I was born.

Shoes from Paris

Shoes from Spain

Chinese dress

Saturday

Clean car. Strawberries. Two hour walk outside. Fresh cut grass. Backyard BBQ and picnic. Bubblebath.

Another Little Sister For Me!

Brother M asked his girlfriend E to marry him!

Here is a picture of the day they met. They met at my brother J's wedding. She caught the bouquet and Brother M caught the garter. I guess it was fate. Pretty funny.