modern art

aka... kids and technology.

i swear these days kids come out of the womb knowing how to program computers and other fancy stuff i'm not even aware of.  over thanksgiving baby girl held her uncle's ipod for about 7 seconds before she had figured out how to unlock it and open music apps.  seriously?!  

recently, she's taken an interest in our little camera.  it's just a normal point and shoot but she realized that she can watch videos of herself on there and she thinks that's super cool.  

she knows the on/off button and the button to press to get the video to play.  it's kind of impressive because i still get hazy on these things.  and she's only 19 months old.  this morning i woke up when chris did.  he got out and showered, while i moaned about how i stayed up too late and why was i already awake?!  when he turned off the showered i lazed* "baby's awake" and so he quickly put on clothes and then got her out of her crib, changed her diaper, and brought her downstairs to our room to hang out with him while he finished getting ready for work.  i remained in bed.  i actually remained in bed for almost an hour after she woke up which is strange because honey left for work and i remained in bed while baby wandered the house.  i was especially lazy this morning.  that's extreme... even for me.  

anyways, around the time honey was about to leave, baby girl grabbed our little camera from my nightstand.  but instead of watching videos like she normally does, she decided to take some pictures!  so my view wasn't always great, but i kept hearing that picture taking sound over and over while seeing the flash blind baby's poor eyes.  she pressed onward though, photographing much of our first floor.  i remained in bed.  but eventually she brought the camera back to me and this is what i can deduce from the pictures.

close up of baby's face.  i saw it happen.

same and same.

ditto and ditto.  lots of face flashing going on. 

this is in honey's office.  i'm guessing she was following him around as he gathered stuff for work.

office chair and map on wall behind his desk.

same and same.

this is honey's arm.  his shirt is actually misrepresented in this picture because really it's blue and white with no pink undertones.

unidentifiable wall or ceiling.  only baby knows.

our entertainment center back in the master bedroom.  

entertainment center in the great room.

the ceiling of the entryway nook to the master bedroom.

kitchen ceiling and window above the sink.

kitchen ceiling

kitchen still.

for someone like me, who is   (fill in the the blank)  , this is what modern art looks like.  sooo, although i know there are a lot of people with a sincere love of abstract art like the great sara snow** who wrote about it here, i've never been able to get myself to be one of those people.  in case you were wondering.

but if you are a self described trendy, artsy, new york loft, creative, hip, right-brain, organic, wears boho/hobo clothes type of person, would you like to purchase one of my baby's deep, meaningful, trendy, timeless, one of a kind prints?  it would look awesome on that brick wall of your awesome 150 sq/ft manhattan two bedroom apartment that you share with your 3 aspiring writer/actor/musician/artist roommates.  convo me on etsy*** and we can talk about sizing, canvas, frames, and pricing.

*not sure of the real meaning, but i intend for it to mean that i laid in bed and snobbishly moaned to my breadwinner husband to fulfill my motherly and wifely responsibilities.
**  she's really super great.  seriously.
*** i do not have anything to do with etsy.  buying, selling, window shopping, browsing for inspiration... nothing.  absolutely nothing.  you should know better.

my current humble abode

affectionately known as "the box"

back in january i'd just done a thorough cleaning of our apartment and decided it was a good time to document life in stanford family housing.  it was only a few months ago but my oh my has our apartment filled up since then!  books, binders, toys, a highchair, mobile baby, etc.  no wonder i'm in a constant state of claustrophobia.  anyways, i'm glad i took the time to take a few pictures of my home because it's something i wish i had from my childhood.  just to see the light blue duck wallpaper in my bedroom and the dark blue floral walls of the kids bathroom.  i wish i could take a tour of my childhood house the way it looked in 1989 because even though my parents still live there, i can't think of anything that really looks the same.  and i wonder how accurate my memory would be.

like i do with everything else, i hope i can continue to take pictures of where i live on an ongoing basis.  i blogged about the highlights from the last place we lived (our one bedroom apartment in EV stanford couples housing) and a few apartments ago when we lived on a golf course in pennsylvania for a summer.  i know i have complete pictures of those places and maybe even the colorado apartment in between but i guess they just never got posted.  not surprising since i really didn't blog back in the day.

anyways, i have a post lined up with pictures of our new home but first things first, let's take a look at our current little box.  our humble home since last july when our precious little baby joined our family.  as excited as i am for more storage and square footage, i'm really going to miss this place.  so, without further adieu (is anyone really even reading this babble?!?!) let's take a stroll down memory lane...

the view when you walk in the door

down the mini hallway to the living room area

living room area

looking into the eating area

i actually really love the all white kitchen.  especially during the day with all of the natural light pouring in.

it's such a happy place to do laundry.  

but i will not in the tiniest bit miss those tile counters.  they are the bane of my existence.

the people before us planted all sorts of bulb plants so we've had green lushness and beautiful  flowers the whole time we've been here!

on to the second floor!  

it's funny how HUGE this apartment first seemed when we moved into it two weeks before baby was due.  because our previous one bedroom apartment was soooo tiny and all on one floor you were never farther than 15 feet from whatever you needed.  pregnant and need to go to the bathroom?  ten feet.  thirsty and need a drink?  12 feet.  want to see your studying honey?  15 feet.  so the fact that i had to go all the way downstairs and then through our mini hallway and pass by our living area and eating area just to get to the fridge... well, it might as well have been on the other side of the country.  it felt like a mansion.  so it's incredible to me that this same apartment with a tiny baby and all of her gear is now making me feel as if the walls are caving in on me and i can't turn around without bumping in to something.  maybe that's why i like these pictures so much.  because it was before our baby needed gear.

upstairs landing.  this area now holds a pack n play about 95% of the time.  we have to roll it around the corner anytime we need access to that closet.

i have never loved this bathroom.  for some reason it always makes me feel like i'm camping.  it's probably the exposed plumbing.

i do love baby's room though and i've really loved having a bed in there too.  

i love having that picture of christ above her crib.  for so many reasons.

the right side of that closet is for honey.  the left side for baby.

i don't like to run out of diapers.

and our super grand master bedroom

don't hate on the furniture.  i know you're hating.

probably the most uncomfortable bed ever.  i'm sitting on it at this very moment and my body is aching from it.

this closet is all mine.  this is the third place we've lived where i've taken the master closet and chris has used a hall closet or one in a different bedroom.  he's a good sport.

favorite pictures on top.  toys and books, blankets and sippy on bottom.  since baby was around six months old we practically lived in bed because our floors were so hard and scratchy and she was practicing sitting all the time.

and there you have it.  i should go around and take the same pictures now.  with our current baby clutter and mess.  complete with packing boxes stashed against the wall behind our kitchen table.  because that's real life.  oh, and now might be a good time to mention that our apartment came furnished.  all of that dorm room looking oak furniture... not ours.  purple sofa, not ours.  other ugly sofa, free from craigslist.  baby's crib, changing table, and glider are ours.  and that's all.  ;-)

hope you enjoyed the tour!  stay tuned for pictures of our new giant mansion!