We have recently found a fun way to spend a
Saturday morning with two little ones. Take the train to a nearby
suburb, get off, eat food, walk around, get back on train and go home. It's actually quite fun. The kids love it!! And it's especially fun when friends come with us.
Isaac has been in a real hugging Lily phase. I guess I shouldn't complain and just be happy that has moved out of the "pushing my sister down the stairs and laughing about it" phase.
Isaac is again being a little too affectionate with his sister for her taste. And I just can't get enough of little Ella's smile. So sweet!!
Right when you get off the train in Oak Park there is this little bakery call the Prarie Bread Company. I don't know if it is chain or not, but it is REALLY YUMMY!!!
Isaac just can't get enough of his little sister.
Fam train shot.
I LOVE this picture. It is so perfect. It is so Lily. The other day I decided as a special treat to let her play with the boggle game. Her and Isaac always beg to play with it, but I always say no. I decided to let her one night. And now she is totally obcessed. She will not let Isaac even touch it, which I repect. And as you can see from the look on her face she is VERY protective of her boggle game.
OK...so Dan tells me that I am really immature for taking this picture or thinking this is funny, BUT...I noticed the other day that this pancake somehow formed in the shape of a butt. I thought it was so funny that I just had to take a picture. Hope it might make one of you laugh.
This is my take on a self portrait. I really wanted to find a way to express the way that I feel so many moments and people in my life have all collaborated to create what I am today. I cannot exist apart from all those people/experiences and the way I move out into the world is directly related. So this is my best shot at that. This project brought forth a lot of emotion for me. 
A closer look at the pictures that compose my head.
After getting this far, I was really tempted to stop. I just loved the look of the painting without adding any of the pictures. There's a bit more drama here. But in the end I decided to add the pictures because it just got more at what I was trying to express. (I'm still kind of considering going back and painting over the pictures....a work in progress I guess.)
This was just a little project for my friend Bronwen who just had a baby girl named Sage. I loved the name so much that I looked it up and found the most amazing definitions...so that was my inspiration. (It's kind of hard to get the effect of how it actually looks because of the flash on my camera.)
I finally finished my ABC project for Isaac's room. I love how it turned out. Isaac loves his letters. 
