while mommy hangs laundry

aileen's 2nd birthday

prettiest little grasshopper

one afternoon...

my first dreamcatcher

the camera flirt

as soon as the camera comes out she smiles and makes foolish faces...
that overdone smile on the right, that's her "i'm so happy to be eating" mealtime face...

the little bird who wouldn't fly

note the key word is wouldn't not couldn't. the kids had fun following it around, peeking at it under the bushes, running around the driveway...when it got bored of such childish games, it finally proved itself a true bird and flew away...
searching for the bird behind the stroller...

updates...

have been put on Dava's School Blog

round 3...

not to be left out of the cool crowd, samantha decided she just had to make like her two older sisters and get herself some pretty pink baby measles. unlike liney, who was the happiest little spotted baby ever, samantha was a lot more like dava, very morose and quiet, very still, restful and quietly grumpy. only content to be constantly held. but unlike her squirmy-wormy self, she was so nice and calm, and would just lay her head on our shoulders. she wouldn't be caught dead doing something so inactive like that now. shucks!

it all started with a fever, that quite literally warmed mommy's cold cheekies
and then came the spots
and the grumpiness

dava. liney. manta.

mastering the scooter
eating an apple on the toilet while waiting for shower time
just bringing in the laundry

a little off the subject...

i haven't drawn in a couple hundred million years...but sometimes i get the inpsiration, and recently i picked up the pencil again.
i have discovered that i draw much easier on notebook paper rather than plain, non-lined bond paper. --something to the effect that on notebook paper i don't feel i have to draw "nicely", whereas a nice clean sheet of white bond paper brings on the pressure that just doesn't work so well with me.
in any case, the drawings are in "chronological order" from newest to oldest...

march 27, 2010 - the kiss--colored (colored pencil on bond paper)
(i wasn't gonna post these first two, but sam liked them, and wanted me to post them...i was just scribbling one night while he was out on outreach, and the original pencil drawing is what happened, and then i made a colored version...)
march 26, 2010 - the kiss--original (pencil on notebook--if anyone can read my writing, the poem has no significance of any sort...just that every once in awhile poetry comes to mind with the picture)
march 26, 2010 - they didn't believe it (pencil on notebook)
march 23, 2010 - the bee (pencil on notebook...then i proceeded to color it)
march 23, 2010 - dance (pencil on notebook)
march 21, 2010 - scribble (pencil on on notebook--my first charicature-ish art)
january 2010 - fireflower (colored pencil on bond paper)
december 2009 - holly (pencil on bond paper)
(ps..."real" artists, don't scrutinize body positions or proportions...drawing is not on my list of what i consider my better talents...)