Grille Playhouse

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Mica's Photo's

• Again, it was so hard to choose a few photo's of Mica.
• He hasn't gotten his pictures taken by himself in awhile.
• He is getting soooooo BIG!

A Little Nervous

• I gave a 20 to 30 minute talk this morning at work. I talked in a room full of high school art teachers. A few people I work with along with my boss were in the room too.
• I have to admit I was a little nervous. Probably because I was speaking to a different audience then what I'm used to. I feel this same nervousness when I get up to talk on the day of graduation. I sometimes feel like talking to people that are teachers themselves are critiquing me.
• I give presentations for 2 hours, 3 days a week to college students, and do fine. I've set up in my mind that most of the new students are younger then me, just starting out, timid and again new. Later on when I have the seniors I know them and just feel comfortable.
• I talked about my own work:


• My main topic was how the gap between painting and illustration is getting smaller.
• I used Mark English as an example:

Mark English's Illustration's

Mark English's Painting

• Fred Otnes was another main example.
• He made 3 shifts in his artistic career: A realistic illustrator, decided to incorporate printing techniques into his illustrations and now a painter. Here is his work:

Fred Otnes' Illustration's

Fred Otnes' Painting

• My talk went well. I always think after talking, "Why was I nervous?"
• One of the high school art teacher's went to Kansas City Art Institute (where I went), so we had a lovely talk! Another teacher was headed down to Savannah College of Art and Design for a workshop (where I went to grad school). He once lived in Atlanta, we talked about that as well. We had a great conversation!
• A few of my co-worker's heard some of the high school art teachers say, "This is the best workshop we've been to!" That is so nice to hear! Especially since we devote a lot of time into doing what we do here.
• I liked the speaker my boss had come in from SKAR advertising. His talk was on Social Networking. That was interesting to me.

Mica Dressed Up

Mother and Son

• So Isaak's not smiling. But I thought I better post this.
• I just don't get a lot of photo's of me with the kids since I'm usually behind the camera.

Father and Son

Dinner

• We went out to dinner for Mommy's birthday on the 21st.
• Mica tried on his shirt that he's wearing for Daddy's show in a few weeks.
• He wanted to wear it. He said that he wants to wear it tomorrow too. I told him, "No, you'll be outside playing tomorrow and it will get hot and messy."
• Mica does look nice!

• Isaak saw that Mica was standing by the tree to get his photo taken.
• I went to go put Isaak in the car. He started whimpering and pointed at the tree.
• He wanted his picture taken too.

Dork

• Mica said to Daddy this morning, "Daddy you're a dork."
• I couldn't help but laugh.
• I'm sure Mica doesn't even understand what a dork even is.

Wordless Wednesday - More Water Fun!

Getting Ready to Throw His First Water Balloon

Just Got Done Playing in the Sprinkler

Odd Habits

• Isaak's getting at the age where he has odd habits. I remember when Mica went through this stage.
• Mica tried to blow bubbles and drink bath water. Now Isaak's doing the same. I stop Isaak and say, "Isaak that's gross water. We clean ourselves in this water, if you want a drink from the kitchen I'll get you one."
• He puts his fingers and food in his drink. I weaned him from a sippy cup, now I'm thinking if he doesn't stop putting things in his drink we may have to go back to a sippy cup.
• He tried hitting start on the microwave twice when I was cooking dinner.
• If hats are laying around he wants them on his head. Sometimes more then one on his head.
• There was tissue paper on the floor, and Isaak was trying to wipe his behind with it like he was done with going potty.
• There was a gift bag laying around from Father's Day and Isaak has been walking around filling it with small toys, emptying it and filling it again.