Do we exist????

And....After

Here is my planter after its been painted with a lovely charcoal black color...2 coats. I had to first scrape the paint and try and get all the flakes and old paint off wherever I could. Doesn't it look great! What do you think?

Problem solved...at least for now

The last 6 nights of sleep have been the best in 16 months. Read my follow up blog to hear what happened. http://my.opera.com/BabyBirch/blog/

Thanks mamas for your advice and support and for the reminder that this isn't the end of the story. I love the image of Claire yelling under the door!

Check out these crazy dancers, called Morris dancing, who came to our farm on Sunday. They were on a tour of the area and stopped and did a show for us and our neighbors. Birch's favorite part was riding on the school bus!

DIY: Planter Project

So a few weeks ago I took my mother's antique planter that has been looking pretty sad in her backyard and gave it a new look. This is a photo of the before shot...

Mama wiggin out!!!

I'm truly going crazy. You can read the whole story at BabyBirch blog...
http://my.opera.com/richyang05/blog/
and look at adorable photos of the past few months...
http://my.opera.com/richyang05/albums/
Here is the other side of the story...Richard and I had to let loose the other night. Our housemates put Birch to bed while we went and had a blast at our friends Liz and Nando's engagement party. Wish we could do that more often, but we are still feeling it - HA! When you have to get up 4 times during the night and then up for good at 6:30am, it doesn't help a body recover from partying. I'm still considering going salsa dancing this friday...

Princess Bean ...

Now that we are in the blog world, I have finally won something! Yes, that is right ... I entered a giveaway on my friend Lean's blog www.momswithoutblogs.com ... she is very funny and this is one of her two blogs. The other one is a work in progress, called The State of the Mom (www.thestateofthemom.com). The video on strollers is hilarious. This week she has teamed up with another blogger to giveaway a Graco Metrolite stroller - if you want it, enter at www.savvysassymoms.com. Next week they are giving away a Bugaboo Bee.

So - last week I entered a giveaway for tickets to Princess Bean's Messy World. www.princessbean.com. Darling show that Sofia and I went to see yesterday - at the Electric Lodge in Venice (very cool solar powered local entertainment space). Great story about being yourself and it was such a fun time with Sofia.

The moral of the story is - there are lots of giveaways online - enter them - you might win!

My Future in Hairstyling

Here is Sofia running laps last week in the Jog A Thon at school last week! She has never had bangs.

A few days ago Sofia started the process with some safety scissors and this morning I completed the project. I think it looks cute!

I think I might have a future in hairstyling!