long time ...

Life is busy. I haven't done a very good job of keeping track of events on this blog. I will probably regret it some day. I will try to do better ... {mom}

pikku VELI

After a long hiatus ... we are/might be back to blogging. facebook has made it so easy to post photos and have conversations about current events that it has kind of taken the place of the blog. However, this blog is like a diary that is search-able and that benefit in these days is quite valuable.

So, since it technically hasn't been said here, on this blog, Silo is a big brother. His little brother Veli was born at 10:16am on the 26th of December - at home next to a roaring fire. A lot has happened in the 7 months that have passed since then. We'll try to play a little catch-up .. before beginning a more 'real-time' update.

Here we go....

official kindergarten picture

old finds....

my mom found some little videos that have been on her phone since february of 2009....videos of me and eeli when i was 3 and he was almost 5.

silo's worm farm

silo's world

i came up with this while we were in duluth this weekend. we had to wait til we got back home to get the footage of the boat for this little movie my mom made, to help illustrate my silly little brain.......

cousin sofia

we had a lot of fun at sofia's birthday party. she got a pink dress for playing dress-up and a set of beautiful jewels (after she put them on, i told my mo, 'sofia looks really pretty') ... she is wearing her jewelry and dress in this little movie that my mom put together of sofia on her birthday. (appologies about the shaking film quality midway through...my mom was laughing)

so behind.....

i am (my mom is) getting so behind on this blog. the last 2 months have been spent in a cloud of sorts....which is why we're just getting around to posting this drawing that i made for my mom as a mother's day card. it is drawn on a really big piece of paper (the back of a super cool pentegram 2009 calendar that my uncle kai gave use for christmas) ..... and i filled the whole thing! you can of course see that it is another rendition of WallE and Eve ... this time with a big green tree and 2 suns!

My mom was most impressed (not by the fact that I created a speech-bubble in which WallE is saying Hello -- which is very impressive considering i didn't ask anyone for help with the spelling of anything in the drawing, but instead) with the way in which i drew Eve. She is moving .... do you see her moving? and, if you've seen the movie, my mom thinks it is most impressive that the WAY she is moving (illustrated in 2 ways) is clearly captured and representative of the movie. of course -- she is my mom, so she might be biased.