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Our family of 3 is going to be a family of 4!!!! We are expecting our little nugget in early July, my Dad is hoping for a July 4th baby because that is his birthday! My friend Michelle, part owner of The Pink Pinwheel, wanted to make us some cupcakes to share the babies gender with our family & friends. It was a cute and yummy idea!   We of course snapped a few shots of the cupcakes.  Prue assisting Drew taking the photos of the cupcakes.

Finally the big reveal!  When you took a bite of the cupcake the color frosting indicated what we are having! 

We look forward to welcoming the littlest MrDrew to our family.  Prue is excited about having a baby brother.  She was a little hesitant at first (since she was sure it was a baby girl).  She sometimes still says baby girl, but after I remind her she corrects herself.   Lot’s of mustached baby items are definitely in our future!  I think I’m going to have to have an intervention with Drew, we’ve already bought 2 little outfits and both are green and grey with stripes.

I came across this video on a photographers blog (thank you to The Youngrens) and thought it was worth sharing.  It’s Ira Glass, from This American Life, talking about what it’s like starting out in a creative field.  How you have really great ideas and taste, but then what you are creating might not be living up to that standard, and how it’s OKAY.  He explains how all creatives go through this.  When I look back at the work Drew & I created in our first years in college (I have a BA in art education & Drew has a BA in photography) I think it is not that great and not very well done, but we had the vision of what we wanted to create but what we were actually creating wasn’t living up to it.  Ira Glass is letting you know that it’s okay and normal to not create great work at the beginning.  You need to stick with it and keep working through it to get to the good stuff.  The only thing that is going to improve your creative work is doing more creative work.  The more you do, the better you’ll get.

Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

Take a minute to watch the video and I hope it helps inspire you to keep working on your creative work and don’t give up.

-Amanda

I was answering a few emails in our office downstairs, for those of you who have been to our home you know the living room is not far away.  I can easily keep an eye on Prue and answer a few messages (or check in on facebook!).  It was really quiet and I should have known that Prue was up to something.  Usually she is running around the house and constantly coming into the office to ask me for “something” or to show me what she is doing.  I finally realized that it was extra quiet so I went out to check on her….this is what I found.

That is toothpaste that she has on her, not lotion, not flour TOOTHPASTE!  She for some reason thought it would be a good idea to use the toothpaste as lotion.  I didn’t know what to say to her so I walked away and got the camera.  That seemed like a good idea.  She just sat on the couch and didn’t say anything to me.  If you look closely at the detail shot you can see the tub of toothpaste tucked next to her leg.  The pillow was completely covered with toothpaste (as was Prue!).  I love how her little legs are crossed and she is just sitting there as if to say “it’s no big deal mom”.  After snapping a few photos it was off to the tub, toothpaste isn’t as easy to clean as I had hoped so she got a full on bath.