The Girls

As much as I love the new house there are two other girls that ADORE the new house. Both Finley and Isabel Clownsnack have been having a blast spreading their wings. They both have so much more room to run around it has made them both a little easier to deal with.

I say a little because my sweet little Finley is seriously right in the middle of the terrible 3's. Testing not only my patience but Daddy's as well. It must be pretty bad when even Daddy uses a strong voice towards Finley.

Clown loves going out every morning and laying in the sunshine. Don't mind the dirt and rubbish about. We're working on it.



















Then on to her favorite thing to do, playing ball. Never mind that she would rather keep it away from you then have you throw it.





































Look at that dog smile.




























She also loves looking out the front window.
We lived in a back duplex before so she couldn't really see what was going on out front.





























I'm kinda glad Finley didn't have her own room before because now she really loves her new room. It's the first thing she wants to show anyone who comes over to visit. She loves playing in there. She also got a new Big big girl bed. Which I love because now I can lay in bed with her and read to her.























































The layout makes a perfect circle for Finley to be able to run around.



















She also likes the new chair clowny won. She uses it to play her games and listen to records.























































Because she decided to become a graffiti artist...



















we punished her by making her mow the lawn.



















She does get to have a little fun outside playing bubbles and stuff.





































Here she is plotting her next graffiti tag. You can just tell that little brain is up to something.

And the winner is.....

Isabel Clownsnack!

I entered Clown in the Modernica pets on furniture contest last month. The challenge was to take a picture of your pet on a piece of modern furniture. Now I enter contests and never ever win anything. Wait that's not completely true. I did win 6 packs of pre-fold diapers when Finley was a baby.

So when I entered Clown I had no real expectation to win, but we did. Thanks in part by all of my fabulous friends that voted for her and secured her a spot in the finals.

This is the winning picture.


















I know it is technically not perfect and I really should have paid more attention to the junk under the couch, but I do think it is pretty funny.

The hardest part of the whole thing was picking out our prize. I really wanted this Noguchi Replica coffee table but since the glass just rests on the base, I was afraid that a certain very rambunctious 3 year old would somehow hurt herself. So I ended up choosing the Easy Chair which is a replica of Pierre Paulin's "orange slice" chair.

We drove down to Los Angeles to pick it up last week. I love the tweedy orange color that I picked out. The chair is super comfortable and will look great in our new house. (which we should close on next week!!!!!)

Here are Finley and Clown posing for the camera at Modernica. They also did a blog entry on our visit.



























Thanks a ton Modernica!