hold it, hold it!

so, here's my funny story of the day, well other than finding out that ethan had poured his milk into one of my flower pots this morning. Ryan has been home lately, and so I've been able to take advantage of his being home because he gets up early and can watch ethan in the mornings so I can sleep in a little bit. Last night Ethan woke up some time during the night and I couldn't get him to go back to sleep. Finally I asked Ryan to try to get him to sleep and he ended up just sleeping in his room with him. This morning I let Ethan run around in his pj's until finally I decided around 11:00 that he really should get dressed for the day. I normally get him dressed when he wakes up, but I didn't think it would hurt any to let him run around in his pj's this morning. I came into the front room with his clothes and he was standing in the hallway with this funny look on his face. I could tell he was going the bathroom, so I un-zipped his pj's to find that he didn't have a diaper on. I had just assumed that Ryan had changed Ethans diaper this morning when he got up with him, but Ryan informed me that he hadn't changed Ethan's diaper, so that meant that the poor kid had gone all night and up until 11 this morning holding it in until he just couldn't anymore, which probably explains why he was having such a hard time going back to sleep last night. I really thought I had put a diaper on him when I got him out of the tub last night and into his pj's. He has never held it in for so long on purpose, so it is possible that maybe he is getting ready to be potty trained. I had planned to wait until he was around 3, because I had heard it is easier to potty train boys when they are older. I'm not excited to start potty training, so we will just see how things go.

New Website

I've finally gotten my new website up and running, so please check it out. http://dragonflywood-andreamichelle.blogspot.com/ Some day I hope that I can custom design the site more, but for now this will work. I am a beginner at this sort of thing, so it will take time for me to figure out everything.

2nd post: Paintings

I know that I already posted a post today, so I really should wait if I want people to see both, but I wanted to get all my paintings uploaded. So just so you know, I posted twice today. Here are the all of my recent paintings I've done. I know there are flaws in them, but I have spent enough time on them and need to move on, and I'm happy with where they are at. I don't mean to sound negative, I really do like how they ended up, but I do have friends who are artists and I know that it's hard not to give a critique, and I just wanted to say that I'm aware of the flaws. I'm excited to be done and I'm ready to move on, I just need to come up with some new ideas for illustrations. I haven't settled on a style yet, so my paintings tend to be random, but eventually I hope to have settled on a style. They are watercolors, since I don't have the proper amount of ventilation to do oils right now.

Car paintings and other random pictures.

Okay, first here are three of the paintings I did recently. Joan gave me money for my birthday to frame them so that some day when we have an office in our house, or Ryan has an office at his work they can go there. I will get the other paintings up soon.


This is the raspberry pie I made for my birthday last saturday. It was very good, but of course it will never taste as good as my mom's pies. I had a wonderful day, I spent the day outside doing yardwork, and it was actually very relaxing and fun.

One day ethan came into the office wearing my hat and Joans boots. He really wanted to go outside, and couldn't find his own hat and shoes, so he figured these would work.

Ethan thinks it's fun to prete d to sleep on the couch. He will see others lie down on the couch and pull the blanket over themselves, so he likes to mimic us. Sometimes he will come and get me and take me to the couch to try to get me to lay down, and then he will proceed to put the blanket over me.

Ethan likes to play on the couch with Grandpa when he is taking trying to take a nap. He would climb on top of him, pull the blanket off, and lay on the opposite end, giggling the whole time. Grandpa doesn't get much sleep...

Here is a fort that Ryan made for Ethan one day. And you can see the lovely mess from my paintings all over the pool table.... Luckily that stuff has been cleaned up and is not so messy anymore.

Ethan hasn't been doing well on taking naps lately, even though he is tired. One day he fell asleep in the car on the way home from twin and Ryan laid him on the couch and he never woke up (which is abnormal, since he wakes up at the slightest noise some times). I thought he was cute.

We came into our bedroom one night and found Asia had climbed under the covers and was sleeping in our bed. We thought it was pretty funny that she had gotten under the covers like that. We try to keep her outside most of the time, but she is sneaky and can dart in the house as soon as a door opens a crack. As of this moment she is going from door to door begging to be let inside, even though it's a gorgeous day outside today.

These are the beautiful roses that Ryan got me for Valentines day. I was able to dry them with the silica sand I have and they turned out great, so some time when I'm finished arranging them I'll put another pic up of them.

Ethan is starting, slowly, to finally talk and mimic noises consistently. He can say moooo for cow; aaaaah for sheep; ooof oof for dog (he can't seem to pronounce the w- it's really cute); he makes a whiny noise to mimic the sound one of Joans cats makes (it's a whiny cat) whenever he sees any cat; he has started saying uh uh oh all the time now, and will even say it when I drop something or he wrecks one of his toy cars; he says nanana for banana; and today he said ba ba ba several times for me when we were playing with his ball.

Finished

Today I finally handed over my recently completed watercolor paintings to Blip copy place, and seriously I gave a sigh of relief that they were out of my hands for the moment and someone elses problem...I've been really working hard on them for over a month now- so much for trying to keep them simple. Blip is going to be putting them on a CD for me so that I can put them on the internet. It's times like this that I wish I had a nice printer, a huge scanner, a nice computer, and the programs photoshop, in-design and illustrator so I could just do this part myself.....maybe someday.

This morning Ethan had pre-school, so when I went to put him in the car to go I noticed how gorgeous of a day it was. I decided to check to see if any of the tulips had started to poke out of the soil, and I'm excited to say they have. I'm very ready for spring. This afternoon we had a thunderstorm, so the sky clouded over, but it still has been a pretty day.