happy birthday joe!

dear sweet little (i mean BIG) joe,

you turned three years old this week! to say you enjoyed your birthday this year would be an understatement. you totally embraced everything about your special day from wolf cake with wolf sauce for breakfast to sharing meatballs with Tammy for lunch to skipping nap time to go see a movie with mommy. 

i had so much fun celebrating your special day with you and i am happy and sad all at the same time to see you growing up. you are my sweet boy with lots of energy, even more questions, and a love for life that i hope you always keep. i love you!

happy list!

the past few days have been very exciting and it has left me feeling thankful. every day is not easy and things are far from perfect, but when i really stop to think about it, i realize how very blessed i am. here's a few things that have been making me happy...

 ...walking up and seeing my art in a showroom at the atlanta gift market

i've been doing this for 3 years now and it just never gets old!...

...meeting people that i've only known on facebook and really connecting...

...voicemail messages from my little guy...

...my new lime green espresso machine. if i wasn't over-caffeinated before, i am now!...

...family meals. they don't happen every day, but i love when they do...

...dreaming of new products to put my art on...

...uninterrupted meals with old friends...

...staying at barnes & noble till they close...

me holding one of the new colorful devotions 2012 products--wall words! (i am a total dork, i know!)

stuck in my head

sometimes when i get a song or jingle stuck in my head, i just have to paint it...

and then it's STILL stuck in my head, but at least now it's cute;)

i'm not sure this would work with "hello capelouto, goodbye bugs." what's always stuck in your head?

neglected!

i have to admit that my blog is the first thing to go when my to do list starts to grow. then one day i log on and realize it's been more than TWO MONTHS since my last post--yikes! rather than try to catch up on everything that's been going on, i thought i'd just pop in to share this cute little story.

my almost three year old hadn't been to the doctor in almost a year when i took him and eliza for their flu shots in december. needless to say, he was NOT happy about that nurse giving him a shot. on our walk out to the car he kept saying "that nurse was NOT nice. it was NOT nice. i DIDNT LIKE IT when she broke my leg."

a few weeks later, i told joe that we were going to have to take eliza to the doctor because she wasn't feeling well. he said (and this is a direct quote): "but i don't want the doctor to shot me. i just want the doctor to shot eliza."

i'm still laughing.