day 63: just got myself a new pair of purple shoes. How can you not be happy when you are wearing fun shoes like these? Plus the color combo with our new comforter is pretty unstoppable (yellow and purple are complementary – see – my arts education didn’t go to waste)

days 56-62:  you probably noticed I missed a few days posting 🙂  We went out of town and I forgot the card reader for my camera.  Then I meant to post them all as soon as we got back but I didn’t get around to it.  Oops.  Here are all the pictures in order –

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I’ll be posting up the new one for today later on in the afternoon. Phew. Feels good to be all caught up!

day 55: lately poor Herbie has not gotten nearly as much blog love as he used to pre-babies. He also is quite stressed these days… I think being chased by crazy toddlers is making him loco. He also looks tired. Probably because I woke him up by taking pictures of him. Oops.

day 54: we moved into our new place how long ago? Almost 6 months? And we still had boxes that hadn’t been unpacked? Yep. We did. We got 99.99% of the unpacking done within the first 2 weeks of moving in – just in time for our family portrait session. And then whatever we didn’t unpack at that point just remained in its box until today. How very sad. The saddest part is that two of the boxes were just on the floor of our bedroom – staring me down every time I walked by them. Not anymore. I realize our room still needs help (like a headboard, maybe some curtains? a coat of paint?) but at least for now it’s not swimming with boxes. And that is a major improvement. Pardon the crummy light

day 53: another packed day with a boring late at night photo – sorry. Why do I always feel like I need a vacation after the weekends?

day 52: and the little man

day 51: a cute picture of the lovely lady

day 50: I’ve been in a bit of a creative rut – looking at and wanting to do a lot of cool projects I’ve found online, but not having a space to do them in and getting frustrated. Our place definitely doesn’t have a “craft room” and I hate to leave a huge mess on the dining room table (which Paul can now easily reach up and grab things off of). So my solution for today was a super quick mini-project. Sorry for the terrible pictures. I’ll take a better one tomorrow. In around an hour I made a shirt I really didn’t like (and was going to throw away) into one I that I like much much better. I’m quite pleased.

day 49: I sometimes wonder what I look like to my kids when I’m coming towards them to take a picture. Apparently the answer is a big scary camera monster.

day 48: most of the time I spend with the kids is reading them books. We actually put all of the downstairs books where they couldn’t reach them so that they would play with some other toys because if it was up to them that is all they would do. Today we were home for a long time in the afternoon so I pulled out the downstairs books. And we spent a LOT of time reading them. Paul was very perturbed that I wanted to take a picture of him reading instead of helping him read – “but MOM… read me the BOOK”. So I put down the camera after this picture.