the view from down there

I think we tend to forget that the world looks diffrent from every pair of eyes. Everyday in class I get down to eye level of small childern, but its not so often that I stop and enjoy the view. Nonny took this picture on our walk last weekend. The kids stopped right in the middle of the road to see a bug that none of us would have noticed. Being a beautiful country road we too were able to stop right there in the middle of the road and bug watch. How beautiful it is down there.

finally!

i finally i finished it!
AND i finally posted pictures to prove it!

this quilt actually only took me a week or so of spare time in the afternoons. HA! spare time? maybe I should re phrase that... "here and there in the the afternoons when I should have been doing other things I worked on sewing this quilt"
I was determined to finish, and refused to let myself work on anything else. (except for maybe that cute little valentines day skirt) but the point is I'm DONE! C has his quilt which he loves by the way, and I am no longer haunted by skull fabric. Unless of course the quilt finds its way to the bedroom.

goodbye snowflakes

"Being that its spring now" I have been told by quite a few very observant people "it is time to take down the snow flakes in the front window."
I just want to say for the record...
I know its spring, I know it doesnt snow here and most importantly I love my snowflakes!
My love of paper snow flakes came from a neighbor of my moms in down town petaluma. Every year the family makes tons and tons of snow flakes and hang them in all the windows of their huge victorian home. It really is a sight to see. I decided to borrow this tradition for my own windows in the winter. Now my home is far from victorian, and I did only started out with 24 but one day I will have more windows, more snow flakes and I will leave them up spring or not.

KITTIES are here!

Born this morning! Mama Kitty started around 4:30 a.m. There was 3 by the time I left for work just after 6. When K and C work up a few hours later there was 5. K was very excited to wake up to kitties under our bed. I wish I could have been there to see her face. she said "Oh how sweet, look daddy, mama kitty had her babies" I think we might have to keep one :)

who really wins the lotto?

honestly? i mean ive heard of people but it cant be real? ive won a few bucks befor on a scratcher. $7.00 to be exact, and I use to know a women who won a few hundrend here and there but probably spent more weekley then she actually won. what about all those big bucks? who wins? Chris' mom thats who!
She left me a paniced voicemail last night, and excited panic telling me I had to call her back, unfortunatly I was in the middle of bed time for a 2 year old that had napped untill 5p.m. and was refusing to go to sleep. enough said. So it want untill the next morning I was able to text her and ask what was up? heres a rough recap of how our conversation went via text messaging

me - hey, sorry i couldnt call you back last night whats up?
her - i won some money last night
me - really, wow thats cool. congrats, how?
her - off a $3 scratcher
me - nice, if you dont mind me asking how much?
her - $750
me - awesome! wow i've never won more then a couple bucks
her - thousand
me - what?
her - $750 thousand
me - shut up!? no fucking way!
(im sorry i swore, i know i could edit that but when someone wins the lottery the f word might slip out and if i edit it out you may loose some quality of the story)

at that point I had to call her. un real huh? has to be one of the coolest stories ive heard or told in a long time for that matter. im happy for them, they deserve it, cant say i dont wish it was me, but im glad it was them.

we love fishies

Once a month they have a free admission day at the Steinhart Aquarium in S.F. So some of the mommies and I have been planning on taking the kids, super mommy style (no dads allowed)
K and I slept over in concord the night before to get a head start & carpool. We all woke up nice and early, packed up our picnic lunch and hit the road. we got into the city pretty quick, but so did everyone else who had the bright idea of going on free day. The line was down down down the street and around the block and down down down again, i cant deny and one point we all exchanged glances and thoughts of abandoning the plans for a pinic at the tea gardens instead but we stuck it out & the line moved suprisingly steady. 4 adults and 3 babes. 1 stroller and 2 ergos... we can do anything! espically FREE anythings!We all had a really good time, We spent most of our time down with the fish, K was a little quiet in the begining taking in everything she saw. we have a fish tank at home but nothing can compare to the awesome overhead fish tank tunnel room.

i'm in love

i worked on this baby every lunch break for a week. i enjoyed every minute of it, even gathering the purple layer. no lie. I am very happy with myself for starting and completing a project without distraction and i just LOVE how it turned out.
Instead of giving it a full bodice like the tutorial does I decided to go with a lace up back. This way the dress will fit her for quite sometime. It fits her now as a long dress and the twirling model is a little girl in my class who just turned 5. Its a shorter dress on her and i belive there is still room for growth because the exposed orange section in the back where their is no bodice has a few inches of stretch thanks to that wionderful clear elastic. (i love that stuff) It would make a cute top with some pants. It can be worn as a skirt and if need be i could always remove the red bodice and give it a waist band.
god i wish it would fit me!