Recent Kiddos

Lucy in a romper I wore

I love that some of Lucy's clothes were mine when I was a baby. She's such a little precious peach in this ruffle-bottom romper.

Cute kid pics, August edition

When I was a little girl, my parents took a f---ton pictures of my brother and I with the polaroid camera and we did the obligatory seasonal Olan Mills trip. I hated the studio portraits because I couldn't then and still can't smile on request. My smiles were skin-crawlingly creepy. I am glad to now live in an age were it doesn't take a roll of film to get a decent shot and we can take as many home photos as we want and some of the time they are as nice as studio pics. My next goal for this year is to take a photography class so my pics can be amazing. Meantime, for having our camera out of commission, it's pretty freaking awesome to be able to take a half-decent shot, or shall I say a shot that rivals anything my old purple 110 could have caught, with my phone. I love living in the future!

Pictorial family update

The baby is growing like a weed; she wears 12 month clothing at 4 months old.

Arthur is starting to really love having a baby sister.

Sneaking some love when no one is looking

Lots of playing dress-up for the fun of it

Hanging out at the VFW

Extra people in our bed

Learning new things

Quiet moments are rare these days

Grocery shopping as a family is more of an outing than an errand these days

 

Constant laughter all over the house

More funky awesome baby shoes avec le bling

These shoes were never going to be white again, so instead of throwing them away, I made them pink and added some sparkle.

The pic doesn't do them justice...they are covered with the cutest iridescent sparkles.

These Hello Kitty crocs were looking pretty rough. Again, the pic doesn't do them justice, but I added a little marbleized paint and glitter, and now they are ready for Lucy's first Flaming Lips show, in the TBD future, Just add some super soft furry bunny ears and she's ready for the ball!

Evening crocs

Crocs are gross. Sorry, crocs fans. They are. They are the plastic birkenstoks of the 2000s.

The birkenstoks of the 2011s are Toms, also gross.

Basically, it's a lazy shoe that people feel okay wearing because everyone else wears them, even though we all know it's just plain wrong, like when a roomful of people sort of gradually fall into an episode of sloppy binge drinking. Everyone knows they shouldn't be doing it, but one or two people said to hell with it, it's the weekend, then the next couple of people said, well, hey, why, not, and so on and so forth.

We'll all regret it when we look back on the photos. It's an excuse to wear slippers outside of the house.

That said, I own a pair of crocs. Gross as they are, they are some of the best possible shoes to have in Bonnaroo mud.

Anyway, Lucy has a pair of navy Crocs by donation. And I thought if anyone can rock the Croc, it's miss Lu.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I give you....

drum roll please...


...evening Crocs! Perfect for that evening on the town that might just end in champagne and gardening!

New life for ugly baby headbands

My girlfriend Taeh calls those horrid little baby headbands "brain squeezers," as pictured below:

Lucy inherited loads of them, and bless her little bald head, just looks plain silly in them. So I did what any mommy would do...I fancied them up a bit!

Get the tutorial here.