some good old fashioned schmultz

i love this one-he's totally mid-laugh.

there's a line from peter pan that says, "when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." i realize that what i'm about to say is incredibly cheesy but it's so true. when wins laughs, it seriously is the best/cutest/sweetest thing you've ever heard and it makes perfect sense that j.m. barrie could picture little fairies tra-la-la-ing around on the tails of a baby's laugh. maybe it's because i really have to earn every laugh i get, but man. there's nothing better.

end cheesiness. return to typical cynicism.

lady blahblah

is anyone else sick to death of her? i mean seriously, why is she popular? for one thing, this is the most normal picture i could find of her-in every other one, she was dressed in some wacko costume that elvira wouldn't have worn. i don't think she's original-to me, she's just combining every weird outfit any celebrity's ever worn (in the vein of madonna's cone bra or cher's oscar outfit), painting fake blood on her face, and bumping and grinding on any stage she can con her way onto (what the dancing with the stars? i thought that was supposed to be a family show). i realize i sound like an old lady whining about "the young'uns these days" but seriously people. anyone could do what she does. her music is gross and uninteresting and so are her clothes. SO over her.

whew. sorry. that was intense.

art

so, what do we think about this painting? i totally love it and at $45 dollars, it was a steal for an original watercolor that's almost an 8x10. i found it at a flea market here in abq and i can't seem to stop looking at it. i love the colors-the way they run into each other without looking messy, the torn pink paper framing it, the smoothness. unfortunately, it's been relegated to our bathroom because j doesn't love the whole "showing skin in art" thing. am i crazy? i like to think i have fairly good taste in art but maybe i'm wrong. what do you think?

photogenic

w looks like a little elf in this one.

possibly my favorite (above).

my lovely friend katie took these pics of wins when we were in utah for christmas. she's got such an eye-her colors are fabulous and there's a total clarity to her pictures. i love them all-that's the only bad thing. i don't know which one of wins to get blown up.

pops

yesterday was my dear daddy's birthday. now that i have figured out how to scan pictures onto the computer, i HAD to include some fabulous ones of my poppa in honor of his 60th. things i love about my old man:

1-he's honest. no beating around the bush with this guy.
2-he's completely confident. why wouldn't you do something you want to do? there's no such thing as an insecurity for him and he has that kind of faith in his children.
3-he's a nerd but in a really smart way.
4-he sometimes misinterprets things, like "pump up the volume". he thought they were saying "bo bo de bayou".
5-he works harder than anyone i know.
6-but he knows how to and does enjoy himself.
7-he adores my mother.
8-he appreciates and recognizes beauty in things and more importantly, in people.
9-he's a flirt.
10-he still has a bit of little boy in him.

i love you father of mine. glad i got you.

morning lovelies

ok, so not to be gross, but how can one little 16 pound baby poop so dang much? it's only 8:30, he's only been awake since 7:30 and i just changed his third poopy diaper of the day. seriously people. all the boy eats is breast milk. i don't understand.

w and b

so, my mother-in-law asked me if i would scan in some baby pictures of me so she could see if wins looks how i did as a baby. she says he doesn't look like jeremy did at this age and actually, it's pretty startling how much he really does look like me. also, how cute is this last picture? my siblings and i were scraggly little ragamuffins but we were dang cute ones.