13 Friday Apr 2012
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Ella, you just go on over there and pick some flowers and I’ll take your picture, okay?
Okay Ella, try not to stick your tongue out. And you don’t need to look at me. Just be natural.
Really Ella?
You don’t need to be that natural.
Just smile, okay?
Or don’t even smile … just pick some flowers.
Okay Ella, that is a scary-person smile.
Just be normal.
She continued to crack herself up.
She would make a face and then crack up.
And then I would crack up.
She is awesome.
03 Monday Oct 2011
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Really Henry?
I mean…really?
Just so we’re clear here, when I say “This picture is for Dad’s birthday”
or
“This is for our Christmas card and you all know how much everyone on the internets and the world in general looks forward to our Christmas card,”
and
“If you’re real good we’ll get ice cream after but you have to smile and I need some good pictures of you and no clown faces.”
you’re thinking
“make a clown face”?
I should just make this my Christmas card picture. That’ll teach him. Only, it probably wouldn’t. He would probably think it was super hilarious and awesome, and then I would have to send out one of these every year.
23 Wednesday Mar 2011
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It is not a sentimental goodbye to winter this year. I feel as though I have been under a soggy wet blanket for the last two months. And I have probably been acting a bit like a soggy wet blanket, for that matter.
I am moved by photography. There was no photography this winter. I just can’t do winter. Everyone is freezing. The noses are running. The kids are covered in forty-two layers of clothing. I can’t see their hair. I can’t see their toes. I can’t see the boys’ beautiful backs, with the swirls of hair between their shoulder blades. I can’t see the sun shining on Kate’s eyelashes and even the freckles have faded a bit. I can’t see Ella’s round little belly. There are no dirty fingernails. No sweat beads. No sunburned cheeks. To put it succinctly, I am uninspired by big puffy coats and fleece hats.
And to be frank, I don’t do indoor photography well. Therefore, no photos, no inspiration, no blog.
I did get one or two photos that make me want to go wake Ella up and squeeze her and pinch her buns and cheeks and kiss her all over. (She wouldn’t get it, though.)
This is one…
Do you see?
Do you see why I like to pinch and squeeze her?
Oh how I love that little baby girl.
30 Wednesday Dec 2009
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26 Thursday Mar 2009
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This is one of the first pictures I took with my new camera.
Which I finally figured out how to download from.
It took all of 10 minutes to figure it out.
But you know, I’m all about the procrastination.
Is she cute or what?
My photography skilz are not the best, I realize.
Back to the cutie…
It is currently 9:55pm, and she is still awake.
Thud. Thud. Thud coming from her room.
She is tossing out all of her lovies. In a few minutes, she will be crying because she has no lovies.
And I’ll go in and put them back in her bed, and rock with her for a few minutes and sing All the Pretty Little Horses.
And then she’ll sleep.
I hope.
