what I've been working on in my painting class

its still wet so it comes across all shiny and weird looking in the pic

its done using the Grisaille technique that the old masters used (think Mona Lisa or this guy ) where you paint the whole thing in black and white (or similar monochromatic scheme) and then glaze layers of color over top. I loved it.

anyway, mine isn't done yet so I'll update it when it is. I need to retouch the highlights and shadows and I think I'm going dark on my background.

My dad got a kick out of this

You see, I used to fall asleep in various places as a young tyke.





des chose the kitchen rug as his napping spot this afternoon.

and now, a work in progress:

needs more gold...

I can't help myself

for sale in Monroe. We have no business living in monroe. But could you imagine remodeling this bad boy??!  oh man. (insert Kolt shaking his head here.) Apparently half is already remodeled for a home, second half is a shop. Gah. I'm dying a bit inside that these finds are NOWHERE up here in Utah county. There's also a large home in, get this, fillmore. Yup. fillmore. As in the very city Kolt's parents live right this very second. I'm going to go down and take a tour one of these weekends. Drawbacks to that one is that it's not actually connected to the power grid. ooooor any water. They have a generator for power and a water tank. ha. (again, insert Kolt shaking his head here.)

still dying about the above beauty.

Dr's report

Gray had his six month check up today. some things we wanted to check were:

• Has he lost weight since going through his cold-from-heck last week :  check.  50th percentile to 15th. (poor kid was only eating 8 oz/24 hours last week)
• How about an ear infection :  check. Antibiotics prescribed and told to go ahead and give it to him immediately. tomorrow will be too late (didn't ask what exactly that meant) but yikes.
• Lets go ahead and check on the suspected umbilical hernia from coughing so much : check. hernia found, although not too bad so we're watching it.

And the doctor said that Gray probably had RSV but looks like we're coming out of it.

oh and don't forget the vaccines the poor kid had to get on top of it all. three pokes.

I'd say it was a good visit.

his head circumference, however, is still going strong at 96%.  so thats a plus.

gray decided to get his harry potter on...

6 months

six months ago we welcomed our sweet baby gray into our family. can you believe it? and man, do we love this little guy.









now look at him

today

today we watched way too many cartoons.
today both boys are on a strict Tylenol regimen.
today I have a painting class (hooray!)
and
today turned out better than I thought.

two days ago it was perfect

perfect enough to nap outside spontaneously. looking back, this should have been a sign of things to come...

minjas rock

i have a couple of cute nephews that have birthdays this upcoming month. And I had the (insane) idea to paint them quick cards while the kids were awake. ugh. next time we wait for naps or bedtime.

the one nephew used to call ninjas mimjas. so there you have it. and yes, i'm late as of tomorrow for the other.