Family
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Z-Woey
So, a three week absence rendered this kid more talkative, not that she wasn’t talking and talkative, but she’s much more of a conversationalist now. Oh, and she’s bossy. While I was gone mom sent me a video of Zoe swinging on her belly. Chris and I then proceeded to randomly say “I swinging” and “I flying” and “You try, you try” which is everything she said in the video. As for the bossy part it is mostly from things we’ve told her, sit there, stay there, be nice. While we were swinging she told me to “sit down, right there” and would have pushed me down if I’d of…
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Hello!
Hi there! I’ve been super busy and now that I’ve started a temporary job I will be working 10+ hour days for the next whenever. Yep, whenever. We were told 10 on, 4 off, but apparently that isn’t quite the way it works. Some people have been working three weeks on, a week off, some are on 47 days straight. I dunno, but I’ll do this for awhile but I am hoping to hear from something with a better schedule! Until then I am spending evenings working on photos and who knows what else while holed up in this motel. Here are some photos I took of Zoe last week.…
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Little Ones—Portrait Session
In my quest to find other kids to take photos of I thought about my friend Candace (Annekind to you forum folks) who had moved to the area near where my in-laws live. I met her at a local park yesterday and took some shots of her 2.5 year old and 3 month old. It was really fun to catch up with her and to hang out with some sweet little kids. In a ‘small world’ sort of deal, a few months ago my friend Amanda from highschool put out an APB for people to come to her for some free portrait sessions while she was portfolio building. I’d just…
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The Ocean
Yesterday Zoe got to play in her pool, she is such a water baby. While jumping up and down to give me some big splashes she tells me that she’s swimming in the ocean. The girl has imagination! She’s swimming in a teeny tiny kids pool and think she’s in the ocean! And I started thinking, what if we all turned our pools into oceans? I If we turned our city houses into farm houses? If our neighborhood walks became ridge walks in the woods? Or if we became so excited about seeing the moon in the middle of the day we grab the nearest person to share it with?…
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Growing Up
Mom and I took Zoe to the park yesterday morning so she could feed the ducks and to play at the playground. The Fall air is so glorious that I wanted to be outside in it. Zoe is certainly growing up and she’s so fun to be around, unless she’s throwing a fit for some reason. I went back and found some photos I took in March of ’09 to compare to today. I can’t wait to see what she’s like in a few more years! Maybe she’ll get some hair to put into ponytails!
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A Few more of the Zoester
It’s funny, only a few weeks later and she’s already changing. Mom and I were remarking her face is changing again and her attitude is different. She’s also happier to go to her little girl potty for a tinkle than she used to be. My brother was cooking up lunch or something when I was sneaking in a few photos. This reminds me of Tori Amos’ “Caught a Light Sneeze”. Apparently there is some bee song by the Black Eyed Peas (see how out of date I am?) that Zoe loves to hold up to her ear and she had to share with dad. Looking for the balloon that was…
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*Bling Bling* on the Blog
My cousin Elizabeth recently re-did her webpage and coincidentally I got the urge to work on mine Saturday. I sat down last night and came up with the banner. Initially there was white space where the butterflies were but I couldn’t think of an appropriate photo to stick in there and then I found the little wingdings and the butterflies just ‘became’. Voila! The biggest pain was going through every page I have to fix it all. The photography link above does not work currently because it will eventually link to our photo website. We have a potential name, to be announced later, so once we finally decide on the…
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Budding Photographer
Zoe loves cameras and I think someone in the family was planning on getting her a children’s digital camera for Christmas. The next set was very fun to shoot because it all happened in a short period of time. The final shot is one of her bawling but it came out blurry because she moved too fast for the camera settings I had on, so I didn’t bother to upload it. Oh, it will definitely be given to her parents so they can show it at her 16th birthday party! hehe! Hey Dad, can I borrow your camera? Sure kid, lemme show you how to use it! YAY! I’m so…
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The Apple Juice Belly
A story by Zoe: One day I was at a park with Mommy, Daddy, Aunt T and Uncle Twis. We had all sorts of fun and I was minding my business drinking out of my sippy cup and apparently I left my belly hanging out. Then my Mommy told me to stop looking like a redneck and put my shirt down! She ruins all the fun! My belly needed a tan, doesn’t she know that?
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Shhh! Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet! We’re Hunting Deer!