This is so much fun to browse through if you adore children's books as much as I do. Even before having kids I could sit in the children's section of a bookstore and drool over some of the books and their illustrations. This photostream has a lot of well-known illustrators and also some I haven't heard of before.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13921596@N08/
And recently there was this: Amelia burned the tip of her finger on the pizza pan thus of course rendering her entire right arm useless. While trying to eat dinner with one arm she said "It's horrifying to only have one hand!!!" And then there was me behind her rolling my eyes...
And yesterday...
Mama: "Well hello there, blueberry eyes!"
Amelia: (pauses only momentarily while studying my eyes) "Hello avocado seed eyes!"
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
...and.....
I just went back and read some recent posts and realized a lot of it is me inside my head... and pretty gloomy. So I need to remind myself of why I started this blog in the first place and get back to recording some of the daily happiness that happens around here. Like how Milo has finally figured out the jumparoo and mastered it so that sometimes I wish there was some sort of restraint system in it, I worry that he'll launch himself clean out of it. And how he can be so thrilled to see someone that he wiggles and grins as though his little body can't hold in all the joy and he'll start giggling at a mere "hello, there". And how funny and sweet Amelia is; today she went up to Milo and said to him "Milo I just love you so much! I really do, I could just squeeze you. But you're a little baby so I won't."
:)
That's better.
:)
That's better.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Happy Mother's Day!
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side byside near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
-from Margery Williams' The Velveteen Rabbit
*
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
-from Margery Williams' The Velveteen Rabbit
*
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Dear Sweet Amelia.
Happy birthday, darling! Today you turned four. You have changed so much, so quickly, and there is nothing on this earth that could have taught me as much about life as you have in these four sweet years.
Amelia Grace, our perfectly peachy princess, you are so loved. To the most fantastical daughter, sister, mermaid fairy princess, book illustrator, chef, dragon slayer, pirate, artist, tea party hostess extraordinaire there ever ever was.... Happy Fourth Birthday!
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Ye old blog. And RIP ye old SUV.
This is the xanga blog I kept for a while, just wanted to have it linked somewhere here.
Off now to gather belongings out of the new (to us) 4runner that was just in an accident and probably totalled. :( Conrad was driving and not hurt thankfully. The kids and I weren't even in the car when it happened and I'm so glad... it rolled and everything. Scary. Probably a sign that we can't afford the gas for a vehicle like that.
Off now to gather belongings out of the new (to us) 4runner that was just in an accident and probably totalled. :( Conrad was driving and not hurt thankfully. The kids and I weren't even in the car when it happened and I'm so glad... it rolled and everything. Scary. Probably a sign that we can't afford the gas for a vehicle like that.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Oh my.
Oh my, could I Hate Laundry be coming back???? Oh my.
oh me oh me oh my. If you've never read her blog you should pick one randomly from her archive and start. She writes some funny shit.
oh me oh me oh my. If you've never read her blog you should pick one randomly from her archive and start. She writes some funny shit.
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