07 October 2013

cereal

This is typical Tank behavior; carrying a bag of cereal around the house wherever he goes, pretty much all the time. He has been doing this since he could walk over to the cereal cupboard and help himself. I guess he loves having a snack on hand. I hate to admit, but him not wearing clothes around here is also typical.  



05 October 2013

praying mantis



We find praying mantises all the time in our yard. Little Bug got the courage to hold one this time and give it a pet. She then invited me to do the same and I just couldn't quite do it.

family room wall

We always have several house projects going on over here. I always imagined I would post pics of our projects and developments, but it just seems like none of them are quite done yet. One day they will all be done though or at least I tell myself this! 

However, I did just finish one of these said projects. Our family room wall.  I started this project last fall! The chalk wall part of it went up fast, we did it in a weekend. But figuring out what to put above it took quite a bit a time. I tried art, small mirrors, big mirrors and finally settled on a family picture wall. A few weeks ago, I finally got the last picture framed and am happy to have a completed project. Here is a pic of me starting to put on the chalk paint, at the time I was wondering what on earth I was doing actually painting the bottom one third of a pretty large wall in the home black. 








We love it! The only problem we have now is teaching Tank to only draw on the black wall. It is proving to be difficult. As of late he has taken to drawing on furniture. So far nothing has been scarred, but I know one of these times it is going to end poorly for me.