Survived: 7 hours in the car and a new camera

We’re visiting the inlaws in New Jersey, and made our way by starlight this morning down along open highways to get here around noon. Seven hours, give or take, and Bean survived.
So much to post about–perhaps tomorrow when we have leisure time and Bean’s grandparents are doting on him. Noteworthy: we purchased a new [...]

Yummy

See his tongue?? He tries to stand now, all of the time. Munching on the edges of the coffee table, chairs, our knees. His little wobbly legs push him up frantically, his feet tipy-toed. He sways about like a drunk with a hula hoop.
Time to move everything another level up. The surface of the [...]

Studio Friday: Paytime

I put watercolor paints on a plate and let Bean play. This is what he made. Click on the picture for more photos of us in action.

Self Portrait Tuesday: September Body Part Challenge

My feet, bare, in flip flops all summer. Since I got pregnant last year, they’ve been unadorned—I couldn’t reach my toes, for my belly. Now, I never have the time to fuss with nail lacquer and little brushes. My feet are strong and tan. My toes, nimble. I can pick things up with them, or [...]

The effect that crawling has had on my brain

The boy, he gets into mischief ALL THE TIME. Because our house is small, single storied, and mostly free of hazards, we give Bean more or less free reign of the place, as we go about daily activities. And he loves this. Going from room to room, investigating.
He crawls FAST now. FASTER when he knows [...]

A time to eat

In the summer, when the heat pushes in through the screens and the crickets and the traffic and the yelling of kids playing stickball in the street fills the air with soundwaves, I don’t cook. The oven makes the house too hot. And usually, I’m not hungry for more than a salad or some grilled [...]

Idiosyncrasies

Allison tagged me yesterday to name a few of my idiosyncrasies. Simply saying idiosyncratic is a delight, so I had to play along.
1. I don’t put caps back on things properly. I set them on the tops of jars, but skip the screwing on step. This works fine for me. I’ve NEVER dropped a jar [...]

Illustration Friday: Escape

Fall is officially here today, on quiet feet like a cat. Flame colored leaves gathering in numbers on the trees; the sun setting earlier over the lake. During the day, intense heat still in the sun, shivers almost, in the shade. Pumpkins in the fields now are round full orange moons; the corn–higher than our [...]

Gravity

Things go BANG and BUMP and BOOM when they fall. Over and over again.

Studio Friday: Tryptic

I like Studio Friday because it’s a peak into other artist’s studios. This week’s project was to show “three of a kind.” Oddly, almost everything around my desk comes it twos or fours or singles. And I sat stumped for a long time before I realized my desk, a second-hand goody inherited from a deceased [...]