I love watching them grow!

After photographing mom’s belly and newborn last year,  here she is again just about to turn 1! She didn’t care I was chasing her with the camera at all, in fact she wanted to push every single button, so it was easy to make her run to me… I love, love,love this age and how fun they are.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do!

Happy Thursday!

Midnight Rendezvous

It is with something less than
maternal goodwill that I crawl,
asleep and annoyed,
from my coveted bed
to silence your angry screams
violating the night.

We rock in the chair
that has been ours since
the very beginning,
ensconced in
Great-Grandmother’s afghan and
the VCR’s ghostly green light.

Mute now, but for
periodic, pitiful whimpers,
you cling to me like some
abandoned creature reclaimed.
Clinging back,
I am Every Mother,
an all-knowing, all-bestowing,
all-loving, all-forgiving
paragon of matriarchal perfection.

Feeling your sweet, soundless breaths
tease the tangles of hair
on the back of my neck,
my last trace of irritation
over interrupted sleep
dissipates in a hug, a kiss,
and a smile.
You will never remember
these midnight moments together;
I will never forget.

                        –from Mother of Sons,
                          by Jayne Jaudon Ferrer

Welcome to another installment of my personal monthly project. This month I’m happy to feature the newest reader in the house! We are both so proud and very enthusiastic about reading together, taking turns and discovering new words. Along with the reading comes the writing and lots and lots of cards and messages through the house.

It seems like yesterday when she was still a baby, babbling  new sounds and trying to say her first few words.  I love her……

To see more, keep going on the circle and check what Kathy Guzman from Roses & Rattles Photography has prepared for us this month!

We were invited to go pottery! We said yes! We had so much fun………

Gail, Mac, Luna and I – putting our creativity to work and feeling like Pablo Picasso!

“the colors”

“bare”

in action

their pallet

concentrated….

our pallet

“the new staring look”

the craziness!

Enjoy the sunny weekend! (at least on our side of the country)

xoxo

P.

Hi all and happy Tuesday.

We had a super fun time visiting the Academy of Sciences in SF last Saturday. Among the penguins, big fishes and the Planetarium, Luna had a chance to get into the the Rain Forest and experience the warm and high humidity felling (in fact, she was complaining of being too hot the whole time!). In there we saw butterflies….lots of them, everywhere, flying on top of our heads! Growing up in Brazil, butterflies were very common, all different colors and beautiful outlines, and I have to confess, they are one of my favorite things ever. They are just perfect….starting as a little larvae, transforming themselves into colorful and free to fly beauties…I just love them.

And with my camera handy, I was able to capture these two gorgeousness… (excuse my non-appropriate lens, that was the best I could do with my 50mm!)

I hope you enjoy the week and have a butterfly day……

xoxo

P.

**Did you know Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees? No wonder we don’t see them very often in the Bay Area…….stay warm!