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hey ....is that guy my husband??


hey ....is that guy my husband??





I wish...cause I would already be cruisin' down Hope St in Providence

life sized art

Galliano made this amazing piece of artwork earlier this summer and I have been meaning to document it. So here it is. It is amazing in part because of how he made it and also because it turned out to look really nice.

He asked me for some brown bags and some glue. He started ripping pieces up and laid out his pieces to make a person and then he glued it all together. He then took a marker and drew a few details, a face, nails on the hands, toes on the feet and a belly button. The proportions turned out great! Then he proceeded to make a horse for his person to ride on which is pretty darn good as well. (gotta post that pic too)

India Point Park, Providence, RI

A fun park in Providence located along the water.

summer reading

We have certainly taken full advantage of our public library this summer, which is less than 3 blocks away. The rain has prompted lots of reading and movies this summer. I am getting so used to the rain that I think I could live in Seattle! Sunny days seem unusually these days.

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mia

I am in love with a bike!!

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car talk

A few weeks ago, me, mom, and the two littles were parked in a spot, waiting for dad. We were picking him up at the studio and he still had some clean-up to do before he could leave. So we were just sitting there waiting and chatting. And as I am looking around and people watching out the window...Gali tells me that he was putting his hands in his mouth and that Mia was doing the same. It is normal for the 18 month-old to be chewing on her hands but the four-year-old? There was silence and then and huge GASP (filled with surprise). Galliano exclaimed, "My hand has salt on it!" I started laughing and then I look in the back seat and I see Gali licking Mia's hand. Then he says, "Mia's hand has salt on it too!!" I think he was pleasantly surprised since he is a big fan of salt on just about every thing he eats.
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Some other funny 4-year-old talk:

"Mommy, I am watch-y" (as in I want to watch a movie or show)
"Mommy, I am read-Y" (as in I want to read books)
"I have allergies with all vegetables and all things mommy and daddy eat"
"Dad, I have a hicking up and it's stopping my voice"
"In heaven, is there going to be lots of pajamas?"
"I like smellin the sauce of the garlic" (while helping make pizza)
"For Africa, we do every morning" (?????)
"Can you hold me, cause I don't feel like walkin?"
"I have LOTS of parts inside my body" (he told me this after I told him he couldn't eat more b/c dinner was being made)

enjoying my girl

Lately I have been trying to treasure my time with my 19month old Mia and it has been working! The stage she is in, is undeniably cute and continues to melt my heart. Maybe the weather has lifted my mood a bit but I am tired of mothering being so difficult. So I am shutting out the "responsibilities" and setting aside what I want to accomplish and just giving in to playing with the littles. It has been working out great. I am enjoying my kids more and feel less weighted down. The laundry will get done some how. Maybe magically or ...when my mom comes to visit.

This morning Mia and I had the entire morning together until Galliano got out of school at 2pm.

We had an adventure....gave her a good breakfast and she was happy ready to go.

start of the day.

We went to the Providence Place Mall down town...and we went right to the piercing pagoda. Basically it was like 1, 2, 3 easy. She pointed to the star earrings that were kind of huge, so I picked littler triple-star shaped earrings. She sat on my lap with a berry smoothie in hand. The nice girl who worked there put dots to mark the spots on her ears and then she pierced the left ear. Mia did NOT cry. I was amazed. She may have been in shock. Then the right...and she started to cry but not even a very big cry at all. I was easily able to distract her and we walked off hand in hand both wearing earrings! so fun.

We of course stopped at the studio for daddy to see on the way home.






end of the day.