Having a hard day.

Today I had a whole 3 hours of being unable to function. I felt horrible and painfully sick to my stomach. by the time I was coming around and  starting to feel better my house looked like a tornado { or just a Tober} had gone through it. Almost all the chairs around the table had been knocked over and she sat on top of the table with the package of Saltines I left behind on my way to the bathroom. The crumbs were everywhere.
Oh and here she comes right now with the soap from the bathroom which she can now reach if her brother leaves it on the edge of the counter. great. On top of all this last months Grades are in and they are sadly not what I want. I spent my first 2 weeks at the top of my classes, but in the last few weeks as my "morning" sickness worsens so has my ability to perform at my best. B- in one class and a C in the other with no hope right now of anything changing. In fact my normal work load of 32-45 pictures has increased this week to 82. It is discouraging. makes me wonder what I am trying to do, and if I am just kidding myself taking on school right now. Of course now is also the perfect time for C to have behavioral issues, and Jones to go Hunting. Tober's responding by spending every minute she can being held or just sitting on my lap.What a day.

Follow the yellow brick road...

 This Halloween Pipsta and I decided we would dress the kids up together. 4 kids, we toyed with the idea of Luchadors, which was fun, but now we are leaning towards the wizard of oz. I already have a dorothy dress for Tober and a lion costume, which leaves scare crow and tin man. I am up for the challenge though.

I thought about buying little red sparkly shoes but since I had red glitter already I decided to save myself the $13 dollars it would cost me at Target and make my own.

 

I started out with a pair of tan suede shoes and using cheap acrylic paint, painted them red. I did one and my 3 yr. old did the other.

 I then filled them with tissue paper and put them in a box.

Then using glitter I had left over from when I made my sister into the queen of hearts for halloween, and some spray adhesive, I sprayed and sprinkled the shoes til I was satisfied.

 I did 2 coats making sure I shook off the look glitter in between each coat.

 I wasn't particularly careful and therefore have permanent glitter fingers.

It was a lot of fun actually making something with Bug.

"thanks Mom I love them!"

2.5 months prego, self portraits

Baby number 3, as of this week you no longer have a tail. You are about the size of a quarter. You can officially kick, turn your head and open your mouth. I love ya already. I hope things continue to go well so that you come to us as planned.

My body is giving all its energy to create you and leaving little to spend on the rest of the family.

Only 1/2 a month til we are in the 2nd trimester and I look forward to it. Hopefully it will mean feeling a little better.

After checking every kids store in the area and finding no rain jackets to my liking I decided to make Tober cake a rain coat. It is red and adorable, makes her look like little red riding hood. I will share the jacket laters.

Right now I am going to eat some tots with my kids and then go buy myself a new camera :) come home and do more school, {only 6 more drawings today!} and then enjoy my husband as much as I can when he gets home.

Self portraits done for my Illistration class. Done by looking into a mirror and trying not to look at your paper too much. I love my fat chins :)

Hey Mikey, He likes it!

When I wake up, after I stop at the bathroom because I have to pee! and before I get my childrean up even though I can hear they are awake, I go down stairs and eat a bowl of cereal to try and calm my stomach and start the day off well instead of throwing up. I threw up enough in my last two pregnancies and I have vowed not to this time around.

I could be sitting on the couch right now hearing kids crying or yelling to be gotten out of bed, but instead I hear happy sounds and the two of them talking to each other. Makes me Happy. Too bad I can't convince them to sound like that more often. :)

Thanks

Thank You!
It was so wonderful to share my pregnancy news with all of you and get so much positive feedback. This week has been a tougher week and I have to keep pushing myself to not give in to the nausea.Being pregnant for the third time is interesting. There is definately that comfort in knowing I have done this before. There is also comfort in our stability right now. My stomach no longer even tries to hold the baby in, that plus the fact that I am combating morning sickness by eating all the time, means I have a 3-4 month belly even though I am only 2 months along. joy. :)


 School is still awesome. I never really enjoyed or excelled at public school. I honestly left my high school years sure that I would never really belong in that world. I know that a lot of poeple wouldn't say that excelling at Art School is the same, but I don't care. I am excelling. I am pushing myself and completely giving myself to the process and really feel like I have found a place I can learn.

And We shall call you Bump Numero tres

{Or Tre for short~ Jones}

You are correct I am pregnant and expecting the third little blessing in my life. Baby number 3, or Alfred as I am calling it {no I do not know the Gender yet} is coming in May 2011 and we couldn't be more happy. I have only been having minor symptoms, a little queeziness, really tired, unbuttoning of the pants :) you know the norm.

love the ruffle dress

Remember this dress I made?
Check out this one from Anthropologie. love the plaid.