Legos & Stars

We've been painting again...

Our nephew (who is starting 1st grade) moved into a new room to make room for his baby sister who will be joining us soon. I had painted a mural in his brother's room a few years ago, and I would be painting in the new nursery as well, so it was his turn for some artwork on the wall!

He chose LEGO people! LEGO video games, to be exact...

(btw, aren't those the cutest BabyLegs?! I love 'em... K's been wearing BL since she was an infant. Great way to keep little legs warm on your nekkid EC baby... and they grow with ya too!)

Anyway, this guy is from LEGO batman... two-face, maybe?

And, LEGO StarWars of course... complete with glow-in-the-dark paint on the Lightsabers!
And for his ARMY dad...

And here is the girly room... for the new niece who should arrive soon!

"Twinkle twinkle little star..."

I even added some real "twinkle" - gemstones and glitter paint!

Fun stuff!

Back to the Beginning

While in FL, we made a stop by a place that has been a second home for the past couple of years - the birthing home where we spent a lot of time while pregnant (and many hours in labor, as well as mommy/baby groups..)

I also did my first post-baby mural here, in the stairwell. My baby was just a few months old at that time, but it is amazing how much she now resembles the silhouette on the wall! I wish I could have gotten a photo of her standing next to the figure, but any time she stood, she was straight up the stairs faster than I could click!!

Our midwife also had a baby who we hadn't had the pleasure of meeting yet, so we were sure to stop by while the little man was there - and he is ADORABLE!!

I crocheted up a little gift for him as well...

some vibrant wool & a hook

woven together

and felted

makes for fabulous clutching :)

EASTER - a day in pictures

twas the day before Easter...

...and I was procrastinating as usual. To-do list:

• boil eggs
• color eggs
• go watch movie screening at Coffee Underground
• finish crocheting "chocolate" bunny
• get dirty
• bath
• you get the idea...

Kalina received a package in the mail from my sister (her Aunt Raquel). As soon as she saw the box, she knew it was for her and she went about opening it.

A fluffy white bunny!

And other Easter goodies - the perfect thing to get us in the mood to decorate eggs!

We've been getting our eggs from a local farmer and they are natually gorgeous! He's got a lot of different breeds, so we get white, tan, brown, speckled, and even a blue/green!

I toyed with the idea of not decorating them because they looked so nice, but then I realized that would be equivalent to not carving a pumpkin for Halloween... and I couldn't let that happen!

I decided to let lil' bit color them as much or as little as she liked. Because I hadn't planned ahead, I just grabbed something easy that I already had - watercolors.

We went outside & got busy!!

She is a natural, no??!

She needed no help figuring out what to do.

But that only lasted so long. We were, after all, outside... which means that there are sticks to play with!

Meanwhile, I worked on my Bunny... the one I should have started a week ago. Yup.

Kalina loves hugging trees... She will go up to every tree in the park and give it a hug!

She makes her new bunny friend hug a tree.

(Joe says she was actually saying, "Ok, now give me all your eggs and no one gets hurt" LOL)

Airplane!

She finds out the eggs, once opened, are edible! YUMM!