According to Zoe

"Mommy & Omri"

According to Zoe this is what I look like right now. I feel about this huge, minus the sideburns of course ;)

Art Journals

The other day Dean & I were heading to one of the 3 inspections we had at the house we are in the process of purchasing. All of his spiral notebooks have been hijacked by one of our three little ones. The pages filled will cute drawing, scribbles and pen marks. Poor guy. I can understand the frustration of not having what you need when you want to use it. So I ran into Walmart & picked up 5 old school notebooks. They were a dollar each & I thought, hey, I'm so good! What a bargain. Now my hubby can have all the crispy lined goodness he wants.

We went to the inspection & scribbled a few things down in one of the notebooks. Only later when we got home and the girls freaked out about all of the new notebooks did I find out the truth. Dean hates those kinds of notebooks. Nope, won't touch em. He only likes the "spiral" kind. So guess who got fresh crispy lined goodness that evening? All three girls.

You would have thought they won the lottery! I told them that we were doing something a little different with these. Once they heard the proposed idea everyone was pretty excited.

Art journals. Yup. No random page scribbles, unless they want to that day of coarse. It's been a fun way for me to listen to the little ones talk about what they were thinking when they were creating. Sloan has really gotten creative with her entries. We don't get to them everyday, but my goal is to have one notebook filled for each kiddo, every year. There are 100 sheets, 200 pages, so I feel it's pretty doable. Wouldn't it be fun to have an art journal for each one of them through the years? I think it would be a neat memory to give them when they are grown and have kids of their own.

33 Weeks

7 weeks to go

This pregnancy is flying by quicker than you can say peanut butter & pickle sandwiches & yes they are my favorite even when I'm not pregnant.

Toys

Toys

I thought I'd try to actually stick to the theme of "toys" this week. It challenged me to think outside the box a little. I sketched for quite a while and spent a lot of time on one drawing only to be left feeling totally disappointed. I decided to just sketch another little idea I had (the one above). It was a quick sketch in my old style from back in college days. It took me all of 5 minutes, but I had so much fun doing it. Then I broke out my paints and filled in the color. I felt so free after finishing this little exercise. I really feel that I need to do this on a daily basis. Just 15 minutes to finish something from start to finish, no pressure, & these quick sketches that fill up a sketchbook become ideas for future illustrations.

If you are interested in joining the Thursday fun drop by Simply Feathers blog. Everyone is welcome! All artistic levels are participating. It's fun to see so many people take time out of their week to spend a moment on the creative process.

You can find more artsy goodness ::here::

Nut's About It

Abby Dog & Aris

Aris has a new saying, "Well, I'm just nuts about it". It's pretty hilarious. She'll jibber jabber on her play phone about how nut's about it she is. She's nuts about movies, food, books, socks, you name it. Tonight she was running around the house laughing hysterically and saying how nuts about things she was. I just can't help giggling. Seriously, where do kids get this stuff?

All I know it's I'm pretty nuts about her. She is growing up so quickly and turning into such a neat little person. I asked her the other day if she was going to be a good big sister and she said,"No". Then I asked her if she was going to be a good friend to Omri, she answered, "Yes mommy, I'll be his best friend". What mom could ask for more?I'm thankful for moments just like these. They make the hard parts of being a mommy worth it.