Footed Jammies

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Christmas With Grandma

We had a great time at my mom's house for Christmas! Great food, fun with family, and the kidlets were loved on all day! Charlotte rewarded us by sleeping in 15 minute stretches from midnight to 4:30am, and then sleeping like a rock to the point we had to wake her up to go to church on Sunday morning! Mom, you sure you're still anxious to do an overnight with these two stinkers??? :)

Of course, here is our day in pictures :)

Maya and Aunt Mary

You can't see it in this picture, but I am outside the frame to the right, making ridiculous faces at Baby J

Thanks for the new art supplies and travel trays, Aunt Mary!

Charlotte got...

...a new outfit...

...and had to put it on immediately!

Maya and Grandma were apparently having a very important discussion here.

Eating cookies is serious work!

Oh my goodness, have you ever seen a cuter Santa??? :)

Maya decided to take a break (all on her own) during gift opening. I think the day got to be a bit too much for her!

Jacob looking constipated and Charlotte looking a little...well...high. Not sure what Grandma's been feeding these two!

Maya and Great-Grandma

Uncle Eric baby(doll)sitting

Thanks for the dress-up clothes, Grandma!

and the new jammies!

Charlotte really enjoyed Jacob's playmat! Maybe more than he did, even! :)

Night all!

Sunday, January 2, 2011

The One For Small Squish

Still working on Christmas pics...

But I have to do a post today because my baby girl is 18 months old! She is fun, playful, determined, creative, and laid back. She follows Maya around like a little puppy, and has to imitate everything her big sister does. Her vocabulary is exploding and she loves to point out everything in the room, on her plate, on her face and on the TV. She is small but mighty, and I cannot wait to see who she becomes.

***Even though I know I'm not supposed to speak negatively about my pictures, I have to say that I did NO editing on these ones (except for the one B&W and the bath one). None at all. I know they aren't the best in the world but I'm a little burnt out on photo editing at the moment! The post was time sensitive, though, so up the photos go :)***

Saturday, January 1, 2011

The One With The Dream

For those of you who know me, this will come as no shock ~ my dream is to be a birth doula/photographer. I think that pregnancy and birth are so amazing. I want to help moms experience labor in birth in a meaningful way, and capture the moments that might otherwise be forgotten in the busyness of life after the baby is born. This venture *might* also extend to doing newborn photography (because oh my goodness who wouldn't want to take pictures of newborn babies AS THEIR JOB???) but for now I'm keeping my goals narrow!

On Friday morning, my awesome friend Adrianne (who just so happens to be 39 weeks pregnant) allowed me to take maternity photos for her, in my very first "real" photo shoot. I've taken millions (ok, thousands) of pictures of my kids, hundreds of my friends' kids, hundreds of my nephew...you get the picture (see what I did there? ;)). But, this was my first time setting up an appointment and actually going to someone's house with the exclusive goal of photographing them. To say I was a bit nervous is quite an understatement! But, Adrianne and her husband Eric are super fun and easygoing people, and their 2-year-old daughter Kendall is hilarious, so they made the shoot really comfortable and fun! I definitely still have a lot to learn, but I'm really happy with how it went and with how the photos turned out! Adrianne has graciously allowed me to share some of them on here, so without further ado:

See, I *told* you Eric was easygoing! Kendall wanted their bellies to touch :)

I think this is the only time I actually captured Kendall kissing a belly...too bad it's the wrong one!

We called this one, "Toddler Moms In Tiaras". Shortly after this photo she had a quick and healthy delivery (at home no less!) of a "Dora the Explorer" kickball.