a day in the life

Portrait project

Last year I took a sad number of photos of the kids. Especially when you compare it to the once a month photos I took of them the previous year. So my goal this year is to fix that. Every week I will take a photo of the kids-it may be formal, casual, posed or playing, but it will all be with my REAL camera. I will also take photos NOT of the kids. I want to focus on playing around with some nature photography this year, and using some different techniques in taking those shots as well. Here's what I have so far.
This you saw...
 A little nature...at least as nature as I was going to get that day. Snow melting off my table in my back yard :) 

Lillian the sleepy bear 

And Charlie the pirate. 

So far so good on my photography focus. 

Two

Someone around here just turned two. 
This someone is superduper sweet. Loves to cuddle. And wrestle. He adores his brother and sister and likes to do EVERYTHING they do. Does not like pasta. Or many other foods, which makes his Mama and Daddy wonder how in the world he has that cute little belly and chubby bum. He still isn't talking that much, but has started saying more words on his own, like 'nack, gapes, moulk, and no way. I have hopes for a talking buddy soon. When he is good he is very, very good, and when he is bad, well lets just say stubborn. Oh is this boy stubborn. And cute. Very, VERY cute. I think we'll keep him. 
*note, I love photoshop. No more GIANT yellow bruise on the forehead and lunch all over the sweater. Success :)

Charlie

Charlie is one interesting kid. He pretends to be a new animal almost daily, then we become the "dinosaur family!" or the "lion family." He also changes his major in school almost every day-going to circus school. Or magic school. Or bat school.
He also makes up phrases quite often-generally involving Jack.
Baby Jack Jack! Baby Jack Jack!
Jackson, over heeeerrre!
Jackson, Jackson are you bububaby B.
Milk in my cup and milk in my bowl. 

(It is all in the inflection and he says them over and over and over)
He also recently made up a song, which I must get on video, that has now become the family theme song.

Boing the cow, the rudy stroy
The rudy sproing, the rudy stroy
Boing the cow, the rudy stroy
On a messy, messy, holiday

Yup, Charlie is an interesting kid.