Nash's photography

Getting a new camera for my birthday means that I can let Nash do something he's been trying to do for months - use my (old) camera to take some pictures of his own.
Through Nash's eyes, here's his world.
This is his blog post.

"My little sister, Margot, is always reaching for something!"


"Here's my Daddy, I take a ton of pictures of him. This is only the 60th time he said 'cheese' in 10 minutes."


"My super-sweet train table."


"Here's my kitchen, where I spend a good part of the day makin' dinner for my Mommy."


"This is me, the artist, Nash."

What we do in the cold...

Here are the two kiddos at the scene of the crime. Laundry Basket Mischief.


Margot is quite a climber. I really have to keep my eye on her! This is how I found her the other day...


She's been walking pretty much exclusively for 2 or 3 weeks now. And she is sturdy on her feet. She just looks adorable with her little blonde curls bouncing around. At least her Mommy thinks so.


A sweet little face peeking over the couch.


Nash loooves "projects". Projects, according to Nashy, includes: stickers, paint, beans, glue, q-tips, cotton balls, play doh, scissors, lots of construction paper, contact paper, tissue paper, pictures, dried pasta and on and on and on and on. And he is very proud of his work, and absolutely LOVES having it displayed in his room. Talks about it every single day. We're also starting a rotating art display in our living room of Nash and Margot's work... yep, Margot loves to color too!


Nash spends a lot of time looking through this, so I turned it around on him and took a picture. He thinks it's really cool. Sorry if you think it's weird, but this blog is for him :)


She likes to undress herself. Yes, that phase.


Nash is way into cars, trucks, buses, dump trucks, recycling trucks, tanker trucks, hiccup trucks (pickup trucks- hee hee), trains, combooses (as he calls cabooses), box cars, airplanes, etc. We like to teach him to build them with blocks. He's pretty good at making an airplane!


We've been stuck indoors because of the super cold weather, and we're all a little stir crazy, I think. We're having a few warm days now and I'm really looking to this long weekend and getting out and having some fun. Hope you all do too!

Welcome Phoebe Hannah Shoenfeld!!

Born on December 23rd, 8 lbs., 20.5 inches. BEAUTIFUL! Can't wait to meet her tomorrow!! And here she is with my big brother, Eric. Congratulations Eric and Liz!!

Where'd '09 Go??

MAGIC HOUSE! YAYAAAAAYYYY!Emmy loves the light table! Stacking blocks with different colors to see how the colors change. Doesn't she look pretty all lit up?
Here are Nash and Mariel. Mariel is the older of two very special girls we spend our days with. They are very good at playing pretend; this picture was taken after finding them camping in the Spiderman tent with cupcakes.
Fairy Princess Margot! These little skirts are too easy to make, I imagine we will have a dozen by the time she's 3.
Hanukkah jammies! Margot would spend all day playing in Nash's bed. And Nash loves playing in Margot's. Are all kids like that? I don't get it! It's cute though.
Put the ball in the hole and watch is go BOING BOING BOING. These little cause and effect toys fill the magic house. And they are indeed magical to the little ones.

Hanukkah!

Margot was so little at her first Hanukkah, not so much anymore. Margot hung in there for 14 months and let me nurse her, but she's had enough now and I think she's getting bigger faster with all the cow's milk she's drinking. According to the baby scale at the Magic House she's 21 lbs, which puts her over the 20th percentile! She's never ranked so high before. So we've just finished Margot's 2nd Hanukkah and Nash's 3rd. What a Hanukkah! Margot and Nash's new toys include: a dump truck, books, tubation, CD's, people puzzles, jammies, and a few girly things :),



I've had a birthday since I last wrote. I am now 31! We had a fun morning at the butterfly house playing with my new camera

I started to write deep, reflective thoughts about my age and my birthday and the love and craft and excitement in life, but I don't really have the words to express just how happy and grateful I am everyday. So I'll leave it at that.
Back to more everyday fun: The Magic House!

Margot and I are headed to Richmond, VA on the 26th to give a big welcome to my neice, who I am sooooo excited for! Eric and Liz are due on the 23rd with Nashy and Margot's first (first) cousin, a baby girl. We also can't wait to see Maeme and G and a few friends too!

Was trying to upload more pictures by Blogger isn't responding, so I'll try again later.

Bye Bye Fall!

We all love Autumn. Margot's birthday, Halloween, our Anniversary, Thanksgiving... then before you know it, it's my birthday and Hanukkah! Margot is standing up on her own and takes the occasional step. She's still only got three little teeth, which she loves to show off with big smiles.Stand in the place where you live...

We stayed home for Thanksgiving and missed our families! Ray took the week off and it was really great to relax at home and be goofy.
We made ourselves a yummy pre-Thanksgiving dinner.

Ray is crazy about these kids.

Daddy's girl?
Nashy's a little sick today, but was still playing games with me when I tried to take a picture of him resting on the couchAnd Ray and I after Turkey din at the Bell's house.
And the exciting news of the week is we are now pet owners! Here is our fish Aleph the Beta. Isn't he beautiful?Nash and Margot love this Farm House we got them as a special present to play with Thanksgiving week while Daddy was home


And here's our little Margot, with her hair back, doing what she does. Being sweet, and peaceful, and studying books and cars and chillin' in the doggie bed.

Cute little Margot video