Future Engineer?

My little Ezra's mind is so interesting. I love how I get more peeks into it as he gets older. He is constantly keeping me on my toes with his seemingly endless questions. I love this particular question he asked me yesterday about Jack who jumps over the candlestick: "Mom, why does he always jump over? Why doesn't he ever walk around the candlestick?" Good question. I think Ezra should go ask his father.

A Trip to the Aquarium

 

Today Ezra, Evy, and I ventured out to the aquarium--just the three of us. It felt like old times with Abby and Will when I would create, explore and discover way more often than now with the two little ones. It was so much fun to see the wonder and excitement in their faces, and it reminded me to have more outings like today with Ez and Evy.

Also, it wasn't too shabby for me to try out my new camera (Eric surprised/spoiled me) and see what "she" could do in the low-light atmosphere. I had her cranked up to her highest ISO, 6400, so the pics are a bit grainy, but I still think she did a great job. With my old camera, these pics would look grainy at ISO 800. A major improvement for sure! All these photos are unedited and were created with Picasa's photo collage feature. I love my new soon-to-be best friend!

Especially for Mom and Val

I have always loved taking pictures. The now tens of thousands of pictures on my hard drive and piles of older 4 x 6s prove it. I have also loved fabric. From the time my mom would make me homemade dresses and Barbie outfits to the times Val has helped me along on some basic projects to my quilting class I took when preggers with Will, the love of fabric and creating has followed me throughout my life, too.

It seems like Abby may have acquired that same interest in sewing as well. She has taken a few sessions of sewing and has enjoyed every bit of it. Seeing her come home with darling little projects inspired me to finally learn how to sew/read a pattern. So I looked into sewing classes and found a cute little place called The Finishing School. I love it. I also enjoy my teacher and the fact that she is from the Palos Verdes area and knows quite a few of Eric's relatives in that part of So Cal. Such a small world!

I wanted to post some of the projects I have completed--not to boast for sure--but so my mom and Val can see what I've been up to. It's so exciting to learn a new skill that I can hopefully bless my family with! And if I can sew, anyone can!


My first project was this apron.


I then made pajama pants for Ezra.


I was so excited to learn how to make jammie pants that I went home and made some for Will all by my little self. Crazy!


I then made this skirt for Evy.


This is my last completed project--a purse for Abby.

I'm now working on a tiered ruffle skirt for Evy and hope to finish it this week or next. All in all it's been a blast learning a new skill and shopping for fabric of course! Also, I'm learning I now need to invest in a serger. I'm keeping my eye on this one.

February

Top row:
1. Will working on one of his comics about a plankton who turns into a hero. Very cute.
2. We received a Valentine's gift package from Lynn and Val. It was such a fun treat--all the way from the cupcakes to the little cupcake toppers.

Bottom row:
1. This is how Ezra rolls when building Legos: he builds crazy towers with all the same color, repeats with all other available colors, and then gets frustrated when crazy towers begin to easily fall apart.
2. Abby made it to the six week mark of having her ears pierced on Valentine's Day, so she celebrated by wearing dangly earrings for the first time.
3. Evy + Mommy + silliness + chocolate = war paint, of course!