11/15/11 Went in to check on Talia and found both kids like this – this makes my heart melt! My Portfolio | Contact Me | Follow Me @emilyWbrown | "like me" on...

12/9/11 For baby’s first Christmas ornament I have taken both of my kids to have their hands imprinted in clay.  I love these little ornaments and next year I promise to take a photo of them! For successive years I have let the kids paint an ornament. This is a fun little tradition, which I...

Simon decided months and months ago that he was going to have a “dragon birthday” and that the cake would be a “pink chocolate raspberry cake” and he came up with all of that on his own! I went looking for a dragon cake pan because I am not a very good baker and I need...

They set up an ice rink here over the Holidays and since I grew up in Alaska and ice skating was a big part of my childhood my brother Mark and I thought it would be fun to take Simon. He received the knee pads with his skateboard for Christmas and it was all his idea to wear them ice skating...

His projects are getting bigger and messier this is the chalk tray on his easel after his most recent painting adventure. I thought the chalk in the pool of blue paint looked cool. Probaly should have had him put the chalk away first but I didn’t think about that until he was already...

I think we have a new October tradition! inspired by all of the Halloween decorations and Play at Home Mom, we decided to have dinner by blacklight. I picked up these blacklights for $10 each at Walmart. Yes, I’m admitting to driving to a different county to go to Walmart to pick up...