Brothers

I love these pictures so much.

These little boys love each other so much.

What a gift these little moments bring to a momma, seeing my boys, these brothers, laugh together.  

xo

nessa dee

Egg

Here's an oldie for illustration Friday. As a child I feared, or maybe hoped, that I might find a little chick in my breakfast.

xo

nessa dee

Happy colors

We've been enjoying some much needed rain for the past couple of days, but with the skies being so grey, we needed a jolt of happy color. We found plenty around the house.

Even an unhappy caged baby is a pretty shade of flaming coral!

xo

nessa dee

Spring animals

Well hello there! I hope you all had a great Easter weekend. Ours was fast and furious as we made a last minute trip to see family. But we are back now, and I'm trying my hardest to carve out some time to create/blog/shower. I decided a bit late that I needed a few spring animals to grace the blog...

I know that robots aren't typically depicted as spring animals, but I went blank on a third type and looked up at my peg board of paintings for inspiration and saw a robot. So, a spring robot it is!

Happy Spring!

xo

nessa dee

Stair climber

I'm exhausted. 

I'm so exhausted. 

How can such a small little thing make you so tired and stressed and filled with joy all at the same time?

August is in that bumps and bruises stage that makes my heart hurt. He's adventurous just like his older brother. He's blowing through his milestones just like his brother. And he doesn't like to be in cage. Neither did his brother. But August is greeted everyday with an exciting challenge that his brother never faced at this age. Why am I so stressed?

This is why:

He's figured out how to climb the stairs. He also has an internal radar that points him past all of his bright, fun, colorful toys to anything that's sharp, hard, and dangerous. He won't stay in his crib/playpen/cage for more than 15 minutes before he wants out. When we are downstairs he's into everything, pulling up on everything, trying to climb everything, and my floors are really hard. If he'd nap in his bed at all, I might not be so frazzled, but he won't, so the only relief I have during the day is shutting us up in the sweet refuge of his mostly safe room.

I know this is a tough phase, and that it will pass, like everything else, all too quickly, but it sure is exhausting.    So, for the next few months I will be locked in August's room, adding to my ever-growing population of grey hairs until he's past this nerve wracking stage and into the next one.

xo

nessa dee

this morning

This morning was spent in my favorite room of the house, sitting and watching and snapping a few pics.

It was a good morning.

xo

nessa dee

Easter pics

Thanks to the help of my mother-in-law and mom, I was able to get some Easter pics of the kids last week that didn't involve too much drama. There was an issue over socks, and trying to get a baby to wear a hat was almost impossible, but we powered through. I thought I got a ton of potential winners, only to discover that my settings on the camera were wrong. Grrrrrr!! I'm so mad. I played with those settings throughout the shoot, and most of the pics are over exposed. But despite all that, and thanks to photoshop, I managed to get several in the 400 pictures I took. 

Alright...enough with the bombardment of kid pictures.

Grandparents, pick out your favorites.

xo 

nessa dee