happy birthday

natasha is 29 today! loves you, have a great day.

tantrum

oh yeah, and here he is in time out at chuck e cheese. what the hell? who gets sad at chuck e cheese? hopefully this is just a quick stage.

crabby

lately i get a lot of this. and tears and crying. ughhhh! the worst is in the morning when i make waffles. he goes bonkers! the waffle has to be homemade, no holes in the squares, all four corners intact. maple syrup in every square evenly distributed and don't even try to cut the waffle with a fork, he'll straight lose it!!

hat

he chose this himself. it looks rather cute.

glasses

he's so kurt cobain. these are from my mom's store, on adults, they make you look crossed eyed because the black ovals too close to the nose, but on kids it actually works out.

floor nap

ziggy was in the mood to try and nap on the floor. he brought this pillow off his bed and planted it on the floor.

clean kid

goofy faces. i like the bottom row of teeth.

cubed

cube head heh heh.

suit

bought him a suit since he's gonna be a ring bearer for two weddings. he looks just like my dad it's strange!

30

i turned 30 this weekend! i remember when my mom would watch the show "thirty something" back in the 80s and i thought eww, damn that's old. well here i am and it's not so bad. inside i'm still 16 and i still shop at forever 21. mark being the sweetest hubby out there booked a hotel suite, planned a night of dinner and dancing with my friends, then invited our families over to celebrate over dinner and cake the next day. I have never felt so loved. 30 is going to be awesome!

buds

so cute.

lake

shana, ziggy and i went to a local lake and brought our fishing pole, all we caught was seaweed. shana has vowed to not not wear glasses. i think she looks good without them!

eye tats

did you know my mom and sisters treated me to eyeliner tattoos for my birthday? i love it! before and after.

dutch market

there's a local amish market near me. it's like a farmer's market run by all amish people. we had some killer pretzels and decadent brownie frosting sandwich drizzled with chocolate.

grady

ziggy has a new beautiful baby cousin. grady mason mortellaro. welcome!!

growing

ziggy really wants to watch the movie 'kick ass' and i told him he had to wait until he got bigger. so he's been eating his veggies in hopes of getting bigger faster in order to watch this movie. poor guy, he doesn't realize i mean older.

4th

my cousin moved here from korea just in time for the 4th. welcome shawn, we're so glad you're near.

ribbon sky

really neat clouds lately. crazy thunderstorms too. i love east coast thunderstorms and fireflies.

same

everytime mark and ziggy wear similar outfits, i take a picture of them like this.

ziggy's shirt

ziggy made his first shirt for mark. it was a father's day gift and mark wore it for 3 days straight.