Current and Upcoming...

The blog will be feeling a little left out over the next couple of weeks as our schedule is about to get ca-ray-zeeeee (crazy), but no fear...we'll be back!

In the meantime we've been sharing smiles and good times with family...

 

Check back soon, we'll have more fun to share! :)

Nora Rose - 3 Months!

This little cutie is three whole months old.  And rockin' her tie-dye too :)

(something is off with the settings on our camera, so I need to sit down and figure it out.  Haven't had the chance yet, but I will soon!)

Some quick notes on our girl...

~ I'd say she weighs somewhere around 11 pounds, though we don't go back until the end of July.

~ She can roll over from her back to her belly and will do it pretty often!

~ She's giving out lots more smiles but it sure is hard to catch on camera.

~ She just started "talking" with coos and small little sounds.  Too cute.

~ Still sleeps from 10 pm until around 5 am every night and for that I couldn't be more thankful.

~ Doing a great job with nursing though she eats small meals and often throughout the day.  After this crazy busy travel month I think we'll start working towards getting her on some kind of schedule.

~ We can't imagine our family without her.  We think she's pretty swell :)

Love love that last winky pic.  We're big fans of our tiny girl!

Zebras in Bratislava?

Yes indeed there are!  And lions, tigers, and bears, too.

Oh my.

We loaded up last Saturday morning and took the girls to the local zoo.  It's a good zoo, but a good bit different from one you'd find in the states.  Particularly in the safety category.  There were giraffes and zebras just a few feet away from us and Elise could've easily (EASILY...see the first three pics) fallen in had we not been with her.

Kinda scary.  But still really fun.

That big girl there loved all the animals.  She was pretty enthralled the whole time (minus when she got scared by a crazy hormone-filled chimpanzee, poor guy).

And this little girl here, well, she just loved sleeping.  Though by the end of our trip she had decided to join us awake people :)

And I'll spare you all of our animal pictures but for my three favorite...

A fun family time it was.  And both girls conked out in the car on the way home...great way to wear 'em out for naptime (and mom too!)

This Is Them

I feel like these pictures perfectly represent our girls right now...

Pig-tailed Elise playing with her babies all while being dressed up as a butterfly in necklaces :) Sweet baby Nora just chilling, throwing out smiles here and there.  Ah, I love them.

There IS Still Time...

...for ART!!!

And that makes me happy.  Now let's be honest, it's not consistent chunks of time and projects take nearly double the time to complete...but, there is still time to be found for art-making :)

For instance, one early morning we decided to bust out the Crayolas.  Elise started practicing circles and I, on a whim, started drawing a sunflower (probably because the weather was drab for a June day and I was dreaming of the warm sun).

Well, E lasted all of ten minutes with her circle drawing, but I was pleased with where my flower was going.  So over the course of the next couple of naptimes and bedtimes, I continued adding color after color, layer after layer.

I finally deemed it finished.  And while I thoroughly enjoyed the process, I was reminded just how much I love my Prismacolors (colored pencils).  Crayons have far fewer blending capabilities and I couldn't get quite the detail I desired with my thicker crayons as I could have with the pointed colored pencils.

How's that for nerdy art talk!? :)

But I still think I'll find a place for it on our walls one day...

So there is still time after all for fitting in small art projects here and there...even when there's an active toddler and hungry baby to be fed ;)  Three cheers for art (and cute kiddos who keep us on our toes! :)