We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.
Luciano De Crescenzo

Theodore Nathaniel Maxwell Merriman

1.20.09

Getting ready for baby brother means...

getting the room all ready


a trip to costco



getting all of the stuff out of storage

mom: too girly?

dad: Yes

blue, green, brown, yellow and more blue

(and camo, in case he needs to hide from his sister)

practicing our big sister techniques on

Baby Tyrone

making pictures of baby brother

to hang by his little bed

baby brother by tia

our cameras caught...

...tia and her family out to one last dinner

before baby brother joins them on the outside.

tia enjoying a raspberry manicure

no, you cannot, physically, be much more pregnant than this



just a few more days!

We confess....

Yes, we went swimming today.....





I forgot to bring the camera to the pool, but here is Tia
still knocked out at 5:30. Being a california girl is tough work!

Installations

Tia has been working on some installation pieces
in her gallery. Here are three of her latest...



Untitled #1


Fish




Untitled #2 (with children's book)

All pieces for sale by artist

palm springs new years trip

Right before New Years we got to tag along with Dad to Palm Springs. Palm Springs is really beautiful, a little bit eerie, and from what we heard very HOT in the summer time.


Golf cart rides: very exciting!

Nature Girl!

Poolside

The pool with the fake sand beach (we forgot our fake beach toys...)

and...very fancy Christmas trees

The cutest girls in the world....

tia is becoming a true california girl! here she is showing off her quintessential california winter outfit. today was a gorgeous california day!

speaking of outer space...

Sometimes, after ballet class, Miss Elizabeth gives the kids little tattoos. How cool is this?

Tia's very educated mother....

Since when are there only 8 planets? Tia's mother didn't know and almost served her nine pizzas! Anyway, Tia is very interested in outer space so we painted the solar system. (I know, no big shock there!)





Here she is looking galactically cute in front of her solar system!!




** And, by the way, check out the pics taken by my brand new camera! It's fabulous! Thanks, Dad & Tia- now I don't have to take pictures w/ my phone anymore Y