I had a REALLY good December. By that I mean I indulged in as many holiday goodies as I wanted and I didn’t feel guilty (or full, apparently) at all. Of course, January had to come around eventually. Back to my regular Weight Watchers meetings, too. That being said, I NEEDED something to keep my hands busy. To stop them from stuffing my face, essentially.
In stepped the knifty knitter. I know how to knit with needles but I’m not good with details and I often end up dropping stitches here and there. The knifty knitter is like knitting for idiots. Just keep going round and round and you end up with a cute hat. The best part about this little venture is that I found this contraption before I had my two newborn sessions. I had the best time knitting hats for each baby and then sending it home with them as a gift.
Now I’m just a knitting fool. Who needs a hat? Anybody? Beuhler?
Is that Gray Poupon? Do you remember that TV commercial? (I’m totally dating myself here.) I had a deja vu moment when Nancy brought Traci and Eric for pictures last Saturday.
Since the light was sketchy I brought the kids upstairs to my bedroom because that is the brightest room in my house. When I asked Eric to hop on the bed he happily obliged. You should have seen the look of excitement on his face. I thought it was just because he was given permission to jump on the bed. Nope. He asked ‘Hey! Is this a Tempur-Pedic mattress?’ How did he become such a mattress connaisseur?
But of course. (A good night’s sleep is one of life’s finer pleasures!)
Thursday, February 4, 2010 Posted in Clients, Kids
Grace and Hailey joined me last weekend for one of my Valentine mini sessions. I haven’t seen these girlies for a couple of years so I was giddy to see them again. It’s amazing how their personalities as bitty babies are still so prevalent. Miss Grace is the smiley outgoing (curly) girl who is eager to try everything first. (Including getting locked in the dog crate by her sister.) Hailey was much more reserved at first, but once she warmed up she was quick to match her sister.
The girl had a great time jumping on my bed and we got some great shots of them hugging and giggling and holding hands for Heather’s walls.
Jack turned two a couple of weeks ago but if you ask him how old he is he will yell loudly ‘Six!’ After a botched session we tried again last week in the park. Winner!
Jack is such a funny little guy now. So verbal and so physical. He is just like my sister and we are all getting a kick out of that!
Here are my favorites…
And look at what Henry was doing at the park. Ah to be young and sleepy again. (One out of two aint bad!)
I love seeing Pull Back pictures. I find it so educational to see how other photographers set up their shots. So, while I was waiting for Mr. Rory to fall into a deep, deep sleep I took a step back to take this shot.
Not so glamorous, eh? You can see the heating pad that didn’t work, the diaper ready and waiting for us to finish and in the lower left corner the space heater that was making the room a balmy 90 degrees. Under all those blankets (there are three under Rory) is a bean bag and probably a boppy. I layer all these things up so I can just lift the baby an inch off the bean bag and have Mom or Dad pull the blanket out and flip it over the stand out of the way. (Oh yes, you can also see the landscaping that was thrashed by two dogs over Christmas!)
Here is one of the shots I got so you can see how it all comes together. Easy Peasy!
I think it is always a good idea to let my clients warm up before I start shooting pictures of them. In this case, my nephew Henry decided to try a little Downward Facing Dog before we started shooting his six month pictures.
This little man is so different from his brother. He’s definitely smaller, but that isn’t saying much because it just means he’s in the 85 percentile for his age instead of off the charts. He’s also more of a red head (Where did THAT come from?) and he is totally focused when you give him a toy. His great focus probably comes from having chaos reign around him at all times (Hey, what do you expect when you have an exuberant two year old brother) and he just knows how to concentrate on one thing. This will serve him well later!
Here are my favorites…
And one more for a size comparison. Here is Henry at 6 months…
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Posted in Kids, Personal
Here’s is the second part to my podcast interview. Can I just say that I talk a lot? I have so much to share and so little time! (Again, I’m the last 15 minutes.)
I hate putting up a post without a picture so here’s one I took of my nephew Henry with my sister, Joelle, last week. Let’s just call it a preview of his six month old pictures that I’ll share later this week!
Have you heard this ad yet? If you are not from the Northwest then you definitely haven’t. Pemco has a brilliant ad campaign where they highlight the quirkiness of people from the Northwest.
Socks and sandles guy? You are one of us!
Blue tarp camper? You are one of us!
So funny! This is a new ad and it totally spoke to me. That was me on Saturday skiing in the rain. Ugh! I was wet, the snow was like peanut butter and I was almost run over, multiple times, by teenage mutant ninja snowboarders.
‘Hey sonny! Think it might be a good idea to look up the mountain before you attempt a jump that you are never going to land?’
Man I’m getting old and I have a low tolerance for crap.
This concludes today’s vent. Thank you!
(This is an iPhone self portrait on the chair. See my hands in our goggles? Not bad, eh?)
I wanted to share one more photo from Miss Caroline’s photo shoot. Normally I change this sort of photo to black and white but Caroline’s color was so dreamy and the Rip Van Winkle hat both look so cute in color that I had to leav it. (2:06 is, of course, the time she was born.)
I have a picture similar to this hanging in my studio. It catches my little clients’ attention all the time. The number one question they ask about this picture?
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