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Posted at 03:24 PM in children, my real life | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Someday I'm going to go out and buy a couple of cute little aprons and lightly powder their cute little noses with flour. Then I'm going to place perfect cut out cookies in a pan and pretend that they did them themselves. I'm actually not being sarcastic- I really do want to do that, those pictures are so cute. And while the expression on the kids are real and absolutely adorable, the surroundings aren't- at least not in my world.
In my world, my four year old dresses herself in a vest with no shirt underneath and pants that are one season too small for her. My baby, well, he flipped over and ran away just after the last tab was snapped on his diaper- I didn't bother to go chasing after him with clothes. In my world, mom puts a lump of bread dough in front of each child and has them shape, cut, roll and mangle it- hoping that they'll stay busy enough that they don't touch the food that everyone else has to eat..... and I have to remember that this is how my life is. It's how we do it and it's perfect in all of its imperfect messes. It must be captured- even when the photographer in me has a hard time with the clothing, imperfect light, the messy counters and a gazillion other distractions in the room that I have taught myself to notice. The mama in me never wants to forget this.
..... while they were doing that- I got 8 loaves of bread made and about 8 dozen cookies.... and we'll do it again in another week and a half.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Posted at 12:13 PM in my real life | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
In Aubrey's world, the UPS guy brings her suckers {from my printing company} and the mail lady brings birthday money to the kids and picture money to me. These two people are pretty much her favorites.
A couple of weeks ago on our way home from dropping the big kids at school, she asked if we could stop and get a donut- we often do this on the days we're out and about. I told her not today, I don't have money for donuts right now.
"you just have picture money?"
yes, just picture money.
She paused for a second and said, "you should ask the mail lady to bring you donut money, too"
On Wednesday, the mail lady pulled through.... or so she thinks.
Posted at 09:07 AM in my real life | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
I was just tellling the kids last night that I was excited they had the day off so we could do some winter things that we weren't able to do Christmas time due to the lack of snow. We had plans to find a sledding hilll and maybe go to my sisters house for a quick evening skate if they were around.... we woke up to 45 degrees and all of the snow that was on the ground 8 hours ago......gone. replaced with puddles and mud.
I'm ready to pack it up and go north for a month.
I won't- however I was looking through my pictures while we were up north this summer and found this one of Elizabeth and Kaarina. I don't remember what was so funny at the time but looking at it now makes me smile. Even on a 45 degree "winter" day.
Happy Monday everyone
Posted at 09:33 AM in my real life | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Posted at 10:19 PM in babies, my real life | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
this boy made me a mama. I took some formal pictures of him last week but decided that the pictures of him goofing around in the front yard last month were more him.
A little about Pete:
11 years... a blink. Happy Birthday Peter Daniel, we love you.
Posted at 12:14 PM in my real life | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
I bought this Santa suit at a resale shop a few weeks ago and I smiled every time he wore it. It was originally bought as a photo prop but I couldn't resist trying it on Andrew. It was a wee bit small but my sister made him some boots and I do believe it was just the right amount too little.
I'm thinking for next year that it would be fun to do some sort of mini sessions with this backdrop. Up until now I've never really had my heart set on doing Christmas sessions- and I try really hard not to do anything that I'm not excited about but, it might be a go for 2012.
I'm back to work tomorrow so maybe, just maybe you'll get a break from my own baby for a bit. Enjoy your evening!
Posted at 09:36 PM in babies, my real life | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
I didn't get to do any backdrop pictures of him for his one year session so I thought I'd really go all out for his 18 month photos..... and since I've got 6 new backdrops that I haven't used yet: we've only just begun.
then again, it doesn't look like he's having too bad of a time so maybe I'll hold off on the apology.
Sandra Boynton would be proud, I do believe.
Happy Tuesday.... almost Wednesday, everyone!
Posted at 11:22 PM in babies, my real life | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)