Happy Mother's Day

Larry was on overnight call last night so my first Mother's Day started without him, but he was there to greet me and Creed when we got home from church and he was in the middle of making lunch and cupcakes. As you can see I was very spoiled (ok, maybe I bought to Doris Day dvds for myself and told Larry they were his gift to me for Mother's Day). My favorite gift? Larry watched Creed and let me take and nap and while I was sleeping, he caught this picture of Creed smiling!

Wonderful Wednesday

I'm a little behind around here so I'm just getting to telling you about our Wednesday. Creed and I went delivering. I know that I've talked about it here before, but for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, delivering is a tradition that I started in high school. On days that I was feeling awful or I was just plain bored I would pick up a bunch of something (bagels, popcicles, cheap magazines, whatever) and then I delivered them to whoever came to mind; people that I thought could use a little cheering up or people that I hadn't had a chance to visit with in a while, etc. It's the best way to cheer yourself up and it's also something that I like to do if I'm having a hard time with my goal of a daily act of service that I wouldn't normally do (I haven't done very well with that goal since having Creed so I'm really working on that now). Wednesday I delivered lotion, but I still have a few deliveries left to make another day. And Creed and I made it home in time to see this site.Oh yes, that's OSU's new Outstanding Housestaff Member!!!!! The medical students vote on the most outstanding housestaff every year and this year Larry was selected. They only chose 3 of the 600 residents and fellows and I'm so proud of him. He'll be receiving his award at the commencment services in June. And I also have to mention that Larry absolutely HATES mowing the lawn so that's always a big act of service on his part.

And last, but not least, I had to include this picture of Creed. Someone around here is really chunking up and it's not me! I swear he's wearing a diaper, but you can't see it under there.

I get by with a little help from my friends

One of my favorite picture books is Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems so I decided to try to do a couple of pigeon paintings for Creed's room (mind you I have no idea how to paint. I did have one oil painting class when I was an exchange student in Japan, but I had no idea what the instructor was talking about, and he painted right over my picture as he was trying to explain something to me). I figured the pigeon was simple enough to attempt.

I'm almost done, but I can't decide what color to paint the pigeon's blanket. Any suggestions? The color is a little off in the picture, the bus and the band around the pigeon's neck are both red. I think I probably need to make the black outlines thicker too. What do you think?

Who is this kid?

Creed is growing so quickly. He's so much more attentive to what's going on around him and his cheeks get chubbier by the day. He's also learning how to use his hands to grab onto everything around him.

And most exciting, he's started to smile, but I haven't captured that on film yet.

How cute are my boys?

Doctors in the house

When I carried in my mother-in-law's luggage it seemed really heavy. She told me that she would be going home much lighter and I inwardly groaned because that meant she had a bunch of random stuff from home for Larry. Anyone who knows me and Larry well knows that sometimes our tastes clash and we most often argue over what a disorganized packrat Larry can be. He has a hard time throwing away anything and it drives me crazy.
Well a couple of days later, these emerged from Diane's suitcase. She wisely waited until Larry was home to bring them out because she knew I wouldn't be pleased. I'm speechless. Seriously? . . . .SERIOUSLY!

I have no words.

And the best part? This one is his favorite that he says we absolultely cannot get rid of.

I'm a mess

Larry headed to Boston yesterday for his last fellowship interview and his mom arrived last night. Our house is a disaster right now, not just a little bit messy, a complete embarrassment. I have project chaos everywhere: Pieces of Creed's dresser are spread across the garage where I'm repainting it, the things that belong in his dresser are all over his room, I have quiet book pages and my sewing machine on the kitchen table, canvases for Creed's room in the kitchen with only the background painted and newspaper spread all over, and my laptop and scanner sitting on the living room floor. Yikes! Larry has been working a lot so it was all we could do to rearrange furniture to create a guestroom in the basement since Creed's room used to be the guestroom. The bed just barely fit down there. Here's a picture of it with the traditional pajamas for guests from out of state. I planned to clean during the day, but then Creed was fussy and sick with a fever so I didn't get anything done. It's not that Larry's mom is judgmental or anything, but I especially wanted our house to be clean, organized, and beautiful since in the six years that Larry and I have been married, she's only visited us once and that was a week before we were moving and in packing pandemonium.

I guess I just need to let it go. At least I have a cute baby.

And he gets to spend time with his Grandma (and those are three to six month pajamas, my friends!).

Martha, Martha, Martha

Have you seen all the Martha Stewart Craft supplies being sold at Michael's? There are so many cute things that make you want to start crafting.

Isn't this baby counting book cute? I think it caught my eye because I've been thinking so much about quiet books lately.

Acrylic Alphabet Stamps

Do you have a set of acrylic alphabet stamps? If not you need them! I'm tempted to get a second set in a different font because they come in handy so often. The acrylic stamps are sticky on the back so you can rearrange them on an acrylic block and you can see through the block to know exactly where you're stamping. I stamped Creed's name on the back of his birth announcements.

In this month's Martha Stewart there are a couple of good things that you could use your stamps to create. I love this idea to stamp plant labels on rocks that you can put out in your garden.

And I give books as gifts all the time and this is the perfect way to personalize them.

Derby Days

We took advantage of Larry's weekend off (a rare occurane these days) and went to visit my sister's family in Louisville. They're moving in a month so it was our last chance to visit. The Kentucky Derby is this week so there were Derby related events all over the city. You have to have a pegasus pin to get into most Derby events. You can buy them all over the city and they come in an envelope so you don't know what color the pin is and they have surprise coupon sin them too. One in 18 pins is a gold pin and people trade and collect them. Friday night we made it just in time to the end of Balloon Glow. It was so neat to see all the balloons together and lit up.

As you can tell, Creed really enjoyed it.

The next day we had a hard time navigating around the marathon, but we made it to a fun arts festival and we walked along all of the "Chow Wagons" along the riverfront.