Sunday, September 28, 2008

Escape from LA

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Addie flees from gunfire in war-torn Griffith Park

or

Addie runs from misting machine in delight at Los Angeles Zoo

Monday, September 22, 2008

The After Party

The After Party
Cap and I told the photographer we were channeling Falcon Crest for this shot.

Because the Emmy's are shown on prime time in LA, we attended the after party
before the show aired on TV here on the West coast. We drank sake, ate tuna snow cones
and saw almost no celebrities.
(Note to self for next year: get there late.)
(Second note to self: you are too old and have to work in the morning to get there late.)
I did get to meet the crying eyes lady from Heroes who is lovely.
She said she was an Artist.
I said I was a Fan.
All was good in the world.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Back to the Drawing Board

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I was in San Francisco for 2 nights and while I was away,
Cap told me that he was watching TV
and heard a scratch, scratch, scratch.
After some investigation, he found Addie
sitting at the office desk drawing away – at 10 pm -
well after she had already gone to bed.
Lil trickster.

"I draw faces, Mama."
I hope this won't be followed by "I see dead people."
Addie told me when I got home that the figure
on the right had ponytails. Very stylish, I’m sure.
The hieroglyphics that run along the bottom
is the alphabet, which Cap said she was reciting while writing.
Question is, who's alphabet?
There is one character that sorta looks like the Omega.
Opa!

Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Artist




If we leave Addie to putter around the house in search of entertainment, you'll often find her at her easel or sitting in the chair at our desk busy drawing. Of course, we might also find her in the living room begging to watch Buzz (Toy Story 2), Dalmatian Dog (101 Dalmatians) or Monster Movie (Monsters Inc.). She comfortable in most mediums - chalk, crayons, marker or paint. Ah, but it is a pen that trumps them all.

To have and to hold the precious ink is to have found paradise. Even last Christmas when Addie was 1 and a half, and we were flying to Detroit, Addie would walk the aisles and snag pens out of people's hands. One kind woman, unfortunate to have an aisle seat, let Addie draw on the backside of the carbon copies of her checks.

We have been rather disorganized keeping her drawings as most of them have been drawn on scrap paper I brought home from work -100 legal size sheets of paper with my old firm's annual budget misprinted on the reverse. I did get inspired though from spread in Sunset magazine and transformed some of Addie's drawings into graphic prints. (thanks Jamie for the photoshop lesson!) We're going to frame them and hang them up on the wall along with an assportment of photos that I'm finally going to convert from digital purgatory to print.


Now try to get the girl to play with a ball and it's as if I've asked her to eat a slug. Oh wait, she probably would eat a slug if I asked.

Saturday, September 06, 2008

the painter in the tub

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What was that pink ring that the Cat in the Hat couldn't get out of the bathtub?* Well, let your toddler illustrate themselves with tempura paint, and you'll find out how to create it yourself. Tempura paint doesn't dissolve in water as much as it reduces itself to a fine dusting that clings to your tub. Just remember not to use your mother's white dress to clean it off.




* I had to do a little google research to learn that the pesky cat ate cake in the bathtub, but I'm still not clear if it was the cake that left the pink cat ring residue or if cake is just circumstantial evidence.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

The Real Deal

Hello Malibu Kiwanis Club Annual Chili Cookoff and Carnival!

All hail funnel cake
Well, my wish finally did come true. And I can say that the (county) fair dream has been realized and the craving for funnel cake has been conquered. With all the best intentions to go for a hike in Malibu with Clara and her parents, we got waylaid by breakfast tacos, chai tea and a playground at our initial rendezvous point. By the time we were finished playing along side the well dressed Malibu locals, the sun was too high for a cool hike so we took to the road. After a rather weak attempt to find beach parking, a giant Ferris wheel a few miles up the road beckoned us over.

beneath the wheel

Weeeeeeeee!

Good times on the Ferris wheel. Addie sat in reverence for most of the ride, hands clasped on her lap but after a few rounds she got into the spirit. Addie and I have also been in a little Mama-Daughter Independence battle. She will only let Dada read her books and if she cries in the middle of the night, I am promptly sent "Away Mama! Only Dada!" She did let me on the carousel with her at the fair, but I was told not to touch her or any part of her horse. I had stand a foot back like her bodyguard. I wonder if she learned that from the kids at the Malibu playground earlier that day?

Check out more photos of our day at the Carnival on the left side bar.