4 letter words

miles's current vocabulary consists of:

"don't!" 
"uh-oh"
&
"no no."

and i am afraid i am the reason to blame.  but how can i help it if his days are full of naughty activities.
today, for example, went like this:
spilling apple sauce down the front of him
breaking a pen and polka dotting his blond hair with ink 
dyeing easter eggs by dropping the eggs from extreme heights into the mugs and splashing colored water everywhere and then
playing in the dirt out on the porch.


i have bathed him and stripped him of his clothing.  and he will stay naked until he goes to bed, because really...i can't keep up with him.
 

i am on camera crack.

really.
just try to stop me.
i'm addicted.
make sure you go check out my photography blog
RIGHT NOW
because i'm looking for models. YOU.
and i'm also booking sessions for the most epic easter mini sessions you've ever heard of in your life.
seriously.
and if i sound a little out of control for 1:28 in the a.m., its because i just got home from work and i'm all hyped up on diet coke and my mind is racing with a million new photo session ideas and i can't wait for those dreamy summer evenings when the lighting is just right.  so hurry up! get over to my photo blog, NOW!  and don't forget to tell everyone you know about it.  and even people you don't know. and if you do, well, i will spoil you with cadbury mini eggs and maybe even a discount.

and maybe someday, when i get enough motivation, i will blog about our christmas in california and the time i stalked kobe bryant like the paparazzi.

on the map

do you use google maps?
i find them to be oh, so helpful.
especially when i lived in boston.
we googled everything.
anyway,
if ever get the urge to type
1129 beacon st., brookline ma 02446
into google maps
and then click street view,
you will stumble upon this awesome display:

and there you will find jared, wade, susan and i
working hard (or hardly working)
on the day jared and susan moved to boston.
that would be their moving truck.
and that would be me, doing some awesome supervising
(i was six months pregnant)
the google car just happened to drive by
with their big ol' camera.
and jared waved.
i love that he is waving.
and when he called at 1 am to tell us we were famous on google maps,
i laughed for ten minutes.
so worth being woken up for.

the reveal

as promised, here is the little project i have been working on.
i still need about 10 more wine crates to finish it up, but since they are so hard to find, who knows when i will be done.  so i figured i would just show you half of it.  it's in the corner of my living room, so eventually i want it to feel up that corner, with basically two rows on each of the walls.  that is why one side is all jagged and the other is even.

i love the jagged edge.  it makes it feel more rustic to me.  basically all i did was pull all the metal staples out and then stain the crates with a dark walnut stain.  i really loved the stamped and engraved labels on the wood, so as soon as i painted a coat of stain on, i wiped it off so that you could still see the stamps through the stain.

then i stacked them up how i wanted them and my fabulous husband screwed them all together.
i'm in love with it.

our week

was spent like this:

fevers.

throwing up.

vertigo.

bronchitis.

sinus infections.

1 ER visit.

1 dr. visit.

2 prescriptions filled.

and i think we are finally all starting to feel better around here.
although i can't quite be sure because miles is either still feeling yucky,
or has a serious case of the terrible two's,
starting a little too early for my liking.
he honestly has learned to throw a tantrum
by flopping himself on the floor and just laying there.
also, today he got mad and shoved a cup of juice out of my arms and all over my white shirt.
it was awesome.
it was also in public.
we are thinking of having his name permanently changed to grumpy pants.

mommy guilt

i did it. i left miles in daycare today.  for one whole hour. 
i got a gym pass last month and only went like 4 times.  my little miles was hindering me.
so i upgraded to the pass with DAYCARE.
ahhhhh.
and i almost cried when i set him down and walked out.
because what if another kid hurts him?
what if he is sad and confused and no one is watching him close?
i just get so very very nervous leaving him with people who don't know him and love him, ya know?
but i have to do this, for my own sanity, i have to do it.

but i feel so horribly guilty.