Ride Your Horsie

Here's a funny little video for the grandparents.

Monster Dolls

My sister Julie has an awesome pattern for silly little dolls that she let me borrow. Here are the fun ones I made for Christmas: Isaiah got the green monster; Charlotte the rosy doll. Isaiah loves his and wanted to sleep with it tonight, though he has yet to come up with a fitting name. Charlotte could care less. As anticipated, she loved the wrapping paper.

Satisfaction in a Ceramics Class

I recently finished taking an 8-week community ceramics class at a local high school. I loved having not only time away from all house and mommy responsibilities, but also a blessed HOUR AND A HALF to concentrate on just one thing. It's glorious to have singularity of purpose. I also enjoyed how absorbing and methodical it can be to make your own pottery on a wheel. And it's such a mess — how could it not be fun?

Here are the results of my class — five little pots including two cups and a bowl. I'm a little disappointed that all of the glazes turned out brown, (you dunk them in buckets of red, or orange, or green, or white glaze and cross your fingers for a fabulous post-firing finish) but I guess that just means I'm not a "true" potter quite yet. Real potters love brown pots. When Seth's pottery class held a campus-wide sale to students, he lamented that the only pots that sold were blue. So I just need to keep looking for beauty in all of those browns.

Sweet Siblings

I can already tell these two are going to be partners in crime. They get along surprisingly well (we'll see how they do in a year or two). She is completely entertained by him, and often when I think he might be bothering her, she's actually giggling at all of his antics.

Recent Additions

To my sock doll family:

Recently, every day's a jammy day

Smile for me, Charlotte

Just don't hurt yourself.

If 1 tie is good ...

...then surely 3 must be better. Isaiah wore all of them
to the grocery store.

Here she comes

Charlotte is on the move! She works so hard to get where she wants, but she can wriggle and crawl her way across a room. And she's starting to come after me when I set her down somewhere.

"Come Help!" Isaiah says, "My car is stuck!"