My favorite Christmas present, made by Amma.
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The Swergerts
Thursday, January 26th, 2012Gingerbread People
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Flora’s Ornaments
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Consider yourself lucky if you got one of these Flora-made ornaments for Christmas. She drew all the designs on with pencil first with the recipient in mind, carefully chose her colors to paint, and added glitter glue and glitter to finish the look.
Decordova
Friday, November 25th, 2011
To work off some of our Thanksgiving girth, and take advantage of the 60 degree weather, we took a stroll through the outdoor Decordova Sculpture Park Thanksgiving weekend.
Chalkboard
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Charley’s chalkboard sketch — note “spooky guy” in lower right corner.
Happy
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Flora’s drawing. You can’t help but smile, right?
Spooky Guys
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Charley’s skeleton and bat.
Ghosts-es
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
Charley’s ghosts-es. Or maybe the Schmoos.
Chalking With Lily
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Cubby
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
We had to put some of our records away because the cats were using them as a scratching post. I was fretting about what we could put in their place, but Charley found a good use for the empty cubby!
Happy Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Where’s Waldo?
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
Lines and Dots by Charley
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Finn and Greta, by Flora
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Flora’s Tryptic
Monday, July 12th, 2010
“BUG!”
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
“Buh Buh, Uh Uh, Guh Guh … Bah-Ugh … Buhg … BUG!” Flora has started to read! After working on identifying all the big and little letters and their sounds, she is now working on sounding out words in books … and on signs … and everywhere! The rhyming Dr. Suess books like Hop on Pop and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish are great beginner books because of the repetition of common sounds (like “op” and “ad”), so we are reading those every night. Flora can also write all of her big letters, most of her little letters, and lots of numbers.
And Charley has been whipping out all kinds of words these days! He is speaking in short sentences and repeats everything. He’s even been identifying colors, some letters, and all kinds of objects. But I love that he still has “Charley words” for some things, like “guy-guy” for hair pomade.
I’m in no hurry for either of them to grow up too soon!
Northshore Life Magazine
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Shortly after Charley was born, we took the kids to Salem Willows Park in Salem, MA. I took our now-lost Canon Digital Elph to take pics, but after just a short while the battery died. Recently someone from Northshore Life Magazine contacted us via flickr to use one of the photos I took of the vintage carousel for their Summer 2010 article on Salem … and here it is!
Flora’s Garden
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Complete with flying jelly fish.
Amy, or “YAM,” by Flora
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Flora loves to depict me how she wishes I actually were: long dresses, red lipstick, lots of accessories — instead of how I usually am: sweatpants, no makeup, and accessory-less!
Paper Dolls
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Flora’s Art
Friday, April 16th, 2010
From top to bottom: “A picture of Mommy ’cause she has frizzy hair;” “butterfly;” and “Charley.”
Charley’s Art
Friday, April 16th, 2010
I call this “the part where the alien comes out of that guy’s stomach.”
Dying Easter Eggs
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
This year we added vegetable oil to some of the dyes to get a marbled effect, twisted rubber bands around some of the eggs to get a tie-dye effect, and put round stickers on some of the other eggs to get polka-dots.
Aquarium
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Inspired by the big aquarium at the Chinese restaurant we went to last night, Flora drew this picture this morning.
Splatser
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Flora got her very first “video game” for her fourth birthday, Splatser, and we finally figured out how to save her art to a USB drive. The game is really an electronic draw and paint platform for the tv, where the user can choose stampers, brushes, colors and more to create original artwork. Since she got the hang of the eye-hand coordination thing, she’s been pretty creative with her makings. Here’s one of them — a “birthday party for Ames” (she’s been calling me Amy and Ames as of late).