slowly, slowly.

I've been spending my days working on my icon of St. Michael over the last two weeks. In doing this I've learned many things--one of which is that the mothering/working ratio is about 1 hour/20 minutes. It's been slow, but it's been good. Here's a picture from yesterday, but the progress I made today (I think) made him really start to come alive. I forgot to take a picture before leaving the church this afternoon, so I'll have to post another tomorrow. My little trooper turned 5 months old last week, and cut his first tooth. He's been such a good sport about being carted off to church and spending his days away from home. *sigh* It's just going so fast! I love to watch him grow and change, but every now and then I'm reminded of how quickly his infancy is vanishing, and how once it's gone I'll never be able to have it back again. It's the order of life, I know...but I sometimes wish I could just grab snippets of time and keep them in my back pocket to revisit them in a few years.