Three More Months

In three months we'll be three people instead of two!  Hard to imagine with all the other stuff going on right now, but it's pretty exciting.

Her face is on the right.  I don't know why there's a mini brontosaurus in there with her... these ultrasounds are so confusing to look at... 

Time for One More Project??

With less than one month left in Germany, my days and weekends seem pretty full.  I have to get all our stuff ready to be packed since it will leave a few days after I fly back, I have to make sure to visit all my favorite places one last time, Thursday we leave for Mallorca, Spain for the weekend, we have one more weekend to take a day trip or hang out at the beer gardens, then a weekend with a college friend who's visiting, and then my mom arrives to help us get our stuff together and take the cats back.  I'm tired just thinking about it...

But I was inspired this weekend by these wall decals I found online...

www.weegallery.com

I am so excited to decorate a nursery for our new little monkey, even if it won't be for a while... 

In preparation, I started some sketches of jungle animals.  I read that babies like big, bold patterns because they can't recognize whole images for a while... so here are a few of them... 

Maybe I won't have time to turn them into paintings before I leave, but at least they'll be ready!

It's A...

There are lots of words and/or phrases that could complete this sentence... And for those of you who haven't been living with me in Dresden for the past few months, the word I choose is probably going to be a surprise...

GIRL!

Yes, we're having a baby, and it's going to be a girl :)  Sometime in the beginning of October, our small family of four (of course I count my cats!) is going to be a somewhat larger family of five!

Kind of hard to see her, but there's totally a nose and a mouth!

We couldn't be more excited, though I am a bit anxious about moving from Dresden to temporary housing in NY, to a semi-permanent apartment in NY, to a house in NY, while having a small baby introduced into our lives somewhere in between those three, but it's all going to work out...

Since I'll be leaving Dresden and probably won't be traveling much or have time to make artwork for a while, I've also decided to start a new blog.  I don't guarantee the new blog to be quite as kid-friendly all the time, as sometimes preparing for (and I'm assuming being) a mom is a little stressful and requires some serious venting...   though I do hope to include some awesome art projects for kids...

I'll keep up this blog until we get home and then I'll be posting mostly to dribblesnibblesscribbles.blogspot.com.