Making Art Again

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Little Girs In Dirt

Here's a little ditty I was inspired to write today...

I asked myself a question
Would it be okay?
If I let my Little,
Play in dirt today.

The truth is all too often,
I dress her up just so,
And make sure she is squeaky clean,
With lots of pink and bows.

So as she crawled away from me,
Into the garden dirt,
She squealed with delight,
And I realized that a little wouldn't hurt.

I knew that when we came back in,
I could wash her hands and feet,
And she would be as good as new,
My little girl so sweet.

And I was then reminded,
That I had smudges too,
But mine were clean and washed away,
Because of LOVE so true.

As dirty as she got today,
I know it's not that bad,
For by GRACE she will be fresh and clean,
And by his LOVE made glad.

Crystal Clear

Is it weird that this picture makes me think of blueberries?

Meal Time

Dear Libby,

Please stop feeding Gus from your high chair. It grosses me out.

Love, Mommy

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Wow, I can't believe that we have lived here for a whole year. July 4th weekend was our first big weekend living in Ashland last year...remember this post. I was amazed at how small towny it all was and once again walking our streets surrounded by neighbors I was reminded of this again.

This is what the 4th of July looks like in our little town

1st we walk into town (on side note, our town really is quite quaint and not at all like a train yard as this picture would suggest)

Then we wave to the engineer driving the train

After 2 trains pass each other simultaneously,

we find our place to watch the parade in the sea of red, white, and blue

We pick our favorite dressed up pet, his name is Felix

We wave to the people walking or ridding by

and we enjoy being together

When we headed home, I found myself having a fantastic time, lounging on the screen porch with my family. Days like this are precious few, but needed more.

Here are Mom and Dad playing cards, I'm wondering if Dad is trying to cheat here,

here,

and most likely here.

Cousin Jill must have got a good card

Libby is not playing the game, but is clearly enjoying sweet potatoes more then she used to.

and just b/c they had so much fun together, here is Gus and his friend Bronson, he stayed with us this weekend.

Bless you all and may your future 4th's be blessed with as much sweet freedom as ours was.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Safty First

Hmmmmm.....what's this thing do?

I'll try putting it back

Mommy, don't panic, I watch Dad do this all the time

See, I'm fine!

Right when I think that I have advice to offer other mothers on my grand mothering skills, I find my baby alone in the kitchen, playing with an unprotected socket! Nice.
New grocery list includes more socket covers...please don't leave me hateful comments. I'm trying to do better, aside from leaving her in her wet diaper this morning, which caused her poopy diaper to leak all over her leg and her high chair. It wasn't pretty but it was smelly.
I did dive on top of a wet Gus last night to save her from being trampled by him post bath. This created a cartoon like scene in which I was thrown backward onto the sink and slid down onto the floor, and thus resulted in me looking like I've been beaten. The Little remained unscathed and thankfully has not electrocuted herself yet!
Blessings.
CJ