Archive for May, 2006

mutiny onboard

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

About once a day I have this brief out-of-mother experience where I can see into the future, far into the future, to the days when Graham is walking and talking, to the days when Nicolaus can pronounce the letter L and I realize oh my God I am so screwed. With one child at three [...]

Photo diahrrea. Or however you spell the word that means horrific amounts of poop flying out of something/someone.

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

It’s driving me crazy. I have to post the rest of the Caddo Lake photos.
Rows of canoes

Silver lily pads

Spanish moss (a color photo that looks b&w)

Moth on the inside of our tent

Rowing

Swamp

One more lilypad then I swear I’ll stop with the lilypads…

Sunset on the drive home (taken by Kevin)

I was going to draw this and scan it but it looked too freaky-ass

Friday, May 26th, 2006

1. Stand up.
2. Bend over and place your palms on the floor in front of you.
3. Walk your hands out as far as possible.
4. Look down at the floor
5. Pretend there’s something yummy to eat right there on the floor where your mouth is.
6. Eat.
That’s the breastfeeding position my baby invented this week. Similar to [...]

Pink-haired old woman entrusted with task of bearing, supervising two small children.

Friday, May 26th, 2006

It’s almost one in the morning, and I’m finally in bed after spending nearly three hours celebrating my Mexican heritage. Legs, done. Underarms, done. Other things which I’m not going to tell you about because this isn’t that sort of website, well not done, but addressed in some manner.
I also trimmed and re-dyed my hair, [...]

Camping for art majors

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

This is where we went.

Caddo Lake State Park. It’s a swamp full of amazing old cypress trees covered in spanish moss. If you ever need to get away and pretend you’re on another planet, Caddo Lake is a great choice.

As I was looking through the photos we took, I kept feeling like some of them [...]