file under: evidence of more day-charting (my writing experiment with days in which i categorize them etc.):::::::natural historian of ghosts(orchids) ; a friendship between a whale and a dolphin (adult pop-up book idea)

file under:thing to make a mama happy:::::indulged myself in a stack of poetry books from the 'brary

file under: the moment before bedtime, captured:::::the papa takes a photo of the mama pointing out the purple sunset to the baby

three things of today

file under: things that show something about my new mom personality::::made about 5 lists in preparation for international travel next week file under: day-charting experiement thing:::::i've been doing my daycharts, but the time's almost up--this one's called DAY TANGLE

file under: things added to the wall by my desk:::::fanny howe poem-part, picture of mnemosyne, greek goddess of time, language, memory, and music

this post is done in the spirit of what we DON'T do; or perhaps, what we DO do but even still it seems like we have done NOTHING!

file under: thing that makes this blogposting possible:::::finn naps in unmade bed

file under: simple thing attempted from the amanda soule book:::::excited to make these green tshirt pants--the first ones i attempted i made way too low for a cloth-baby bottom--and then! i was almost done with these! and my sewing machine freaked out and started sewing really loosely (see the bunched up blue thread at the waist?)
file under: before me sits. . .. :::::: a box of unpaid bills; a bunch of dishes to be done, evidence of weekend revelry; recycling to be recyled (though, to be fair, we actually did take a huge amount of recycling to the plant on friday--so this is actually a less chaotic corner than it used to be)

what we do

file under: grass things (whitman baby)::::::how the grass sees a baby; a baby looking at me (in the evening grass); a baby playing with grass and the creeping charlie (and nearby mama's favorite baby book with beautiful food paintings!)





file under: things we do do::::eat fresh Deluxe donuts of a saturday morn; go thrifting and find F and dinosaur appliques

earth day picnic with two old-man babies!

file under:a celebration thing::::::theo & finn earth day picnic in which they watch basketball, go opposite directions (is this how toddlerhood will be??), eat food, and in general do their baby things.

ode to joy + dr. who + cosmic playmat (all of which are odes to joy)

file under: a finally finished thing::::::cosmic & earthly playmat for finn

file under: newly discovered music thing::::::glass harmonica!(also, dr. who, especially the keys to time are awesome & also tom baker with his scarf) ((plus the original theme song does employ a glass harmonica))


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlk59xdM_YY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2x5IKxmAQ

outside

file under: things of walking around::::: the woods & a dog & a husband + happy outside baby + (sad) fish kite stuck in tree + (good) first greens in the woods

reading, taking note of it

file under: thing accomplished that helps maintain sanity::::managed to read a bit of moyra davey's essay "notes on photography & accident" and eleni sikelianos's "poetics of the exclamation point" (from an onedit issue, circa 1995!)

barthes quoted in davey:
"When a certain amount of time's gone by without any note-taking, without my having taken out my notebook, I notice a feeling of frustration and aridity. And so each time I get back to note-taking (notatio) it's like a drug, a refuge, a security. I'd say that the activity of notatio is like a mothering. I return to notatio as to a mother who protects me. Note-taking gives me a form of security."

and one of the sikelianos poems:

birthday purses

file under: things sewn::::made these purses for loved ones (because I learned how to do corners!)

st. louis! & spring &

file under: thing we do with purple trees as witness::::jj & I nurse our babies outside (photo by aleta)

file under: laugh thing:::::finn thinks it's wonderful to finally meet the mokabe's part of the family

st. louis! and our children come together

file under: what a baby loves, witnessed::::loves to watch someone about his size walking around

file under: thing amazing:::::the hair of sylvia lane woldow

file under: couch motion thing(s)::::sylvia, finnegan, and easton

grandma & granpa's house

file under: thing that happens at grandma & granpa's house:::::rainbow on the hand

file under: thing that happens with granpa and finn together:::::bird watching

file under: 3 notable things happening at once::::finn eye-shape, finn mouth-shape, and rainbow across jaw

finn-bath

file under: thing that involves the alphabet, water, and a small orange frog:::::finn in the bath