Dear Michael Ethan,

It is difficult for Mama to think that you were this small not so long ago. New to this world, ready for life. Many things that were not expected, challenges we had not anticipated and yet, you, my child, are as perfect today as I knew you were that very first moment on that very first day I held you in my arms-and more so!I love you, Michael Ethan

A fun assignment where I got to create a bedroom plan for homework.

Pre-School Pictures

Here he is, fresh from the bath and all dressed up. Michael had School Pictures today! We had to go into the Elementary school's gym with all of the other kids and after filling out the picture form it was his turn to sit in front of the camera. Mama sat right next to him and sang his favorite songs and tickled his feet to get him to smile. The photographer was very patient and took a number of pictures until Michael had his head up.

I think these are Sensational! Now if only they were textured 3D! from rompstore.com

No Helmet AND sleep!

Finally fast asleep! Michael had a long day today. I had errands to run and we had one sports game or practice after another this afternoon it seemed. He, however, is seemingly doing much better at preschool. He is tolerating the other children's noises and has not had to have his helmet on while there for the past number of days.

Dude!

Noah lookin' cool before school this morning. He has become increasingly aware of how he dresses and insists on wearing his "Vans" to school every day! The mohawk hair-do? That is Mom's good idea!
P.S. Notice anything else in this picture? Or should I say anyone else?

It's a Frog!

Michael made a frog today at Preschool! He put his hand first in a green stamp pad and that Mama helped him put his hand print down on the paper. His teacher helped him add eyes (there were 2) and some soft felt shapes. Michael helped by taking off one of the eyes and trying to eat it and when that wasn't allowed he took a bite out of the corner of his paper! Our first Preschool Art Project!

First day of Pre-School

Today was the first day of Preschool! Michael was not ready to wake up this morning and unfortunately did not sleep well last night. The school van came to pick him up and I had to take him out to it, buckle him in his car seat with three other children inside and say "Good-bye!" Needless to say I was more than apprehensive about it all. Within two hours of being at school I got a phone call from Michael's teacher, Sue Anne, who let me know that Michael had been throwing a terrible fit since arriving, that he was blooding his mouth and hand from hitting himself and that they really needed me to come down because they didn't know what else to do. !!! In the background I could hear Michael screaming and I couldn't get into the car fast enough...continued later

Would you jump off a bridge?

So, these "blogs" are all the rage these days so I'm succumbing to peer pressure, following the pack and starting my own! Really quite a fantastic idea, actually. A free service that gives one the template for recording events, photographs and the like. Some use it for business endeavors, self promotion, that kind of thing but mine will be created as our family's online journal. I started out thinking I would do a separate blog for each child, mimicking my journal keeping from previous years but time has gotten the best of me and reality will only allow one blog as being more than enough for me to try and keep up with. So here we go...My fantastic family!

In 1929 Mies Van der Rohe was commissioned to design the German national pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. It was built from glass, travertine and two different kinds of marble. The flat roof set on top of the walls. The architecture was distinctly forward thinking and many found it too modern in design. In fact the Pavilion was taken down in 1930 as it was said to be an eye sore. The Barcelona 2-Seater was designed specifically to furnish this magnificent building.

Mom painted this of Grace and I LOVE IT! She is Amazing!

Love!

My window boxes are beginning to overflow and I couldn't be more excited!

Without a doubt one of my top three chairs of all time. The color, the shape...fantastic!
I guarantee my first major purchases will be made at Category Twentieth, http://www.twentieth.net/, post lottery win of course!

The mixture of colors and patterns on texture here is timelessly flawless.