Sunday, October 30, 2011

avery doing the hokey pokey with blake. still and video.

avery's version goes like this:

puty own arm in.
puty own arm in.
shakey all bout.
hot dog.
(put other own arm in, put own other foot in, etc.)

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and the video. she gets a little distracted sometimes.
and this is what blake thought of the hokey pokey

Friday, October 28, 2011

we could all stand to be more childlike and marvel in God's creations, big and small!
this includes myself.
avery and i found this butterfly on our search for acorns yesterday!
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

love watching my sweet girl growing up!
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Monday, October 24, 2011

halloween in our house means candy corn, carving + costumes. can you guess who avery is going to be for halloween? she has insisted on wearing her boots everywhere since we bought them!

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

up, up and away!

i wanted to check out this spot behind our house to see if i could take pictures there for clients. and of course i enlisted who else but avery to be my subject! i think i like it. do you?

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she's a photographer's kid. what can you say?
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um, frizzy!
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giving her gummies to bribe her!
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and when she quit cooperating
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we were getting ready to get in the car when i noticed the sky was so clear. so i made mark get out and toss avery up in the air a couple of times. so glad i did!
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

2 months

i love that i can look back and see what avery was doing at this stage. i went to see how big she was a 2 months to compare her to blake. i read this POST from when avery was that age. it's funny because it is EXACTLY what blake is doing. exactly! he sucks on his hands and loves the lightening bug on the play mat.

blake is 2 months old! he weighed 12 lbs 8.5 oz and he grew longer. he was in the 73rd percentile for height and 65th for weight and the 50th for head circumference. :)

since this post is all about blake. pictures of my little man! growing like a weed!

self portrait with my man!
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

i can do it all

avery is loving preschool. i was so worried about my time with her being taken away. but when i pick her up at 2 pm and she doesn't nap i'm only missing 2 hours of her day. and i love the time with blake!!! he's the best! really, he is and he's just so cute! you have to smile when you are around him! for the past 2 nights he's only woken up once in 12 hours! thank you God! seriously! these kids drive me crazy somedays, nutty really! but, we're adjusting! i had gotten the hang of 2 kids and now with starting up back to work and photos to edit we are readjusting. i'm thankful to mark for being so supportive and playing with the kids while i go have sessions. and lets not forget the editing time too. he's decided he couldn't stay home full time so we both have a new appreciation for each other! :) don't get me wrong. i have my moments (like last night when mark had a work dinner) when they both needed me at the same time and there is only one of me. but, both kids got to bed on time and i survived! there were tears (the kids) but everyone got a full nights sleep! an hour and a half later after picking up from the day and folding their laundry i sat down!

i have a million photos sitting on my computer that i have thrown into a folder named october. i'm getting there.

the beauty of a newborn is they sleep a lot. and while i know this time should be spent getting caught up on sleep or cleaning most of the time it's not. it's spent with avery and just marveling in her two year old fun. she's had to make an adjustment in her life. we don't get out nearly as much as we used to. and it's been so hot we don't really go outside too much to play with blake. so when we were folding laundry together and she asked for a popsicle because there was a picture of one on her shorts i said sure. because laundry can wait. oh her sweetness!
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and our little man...
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looking like avery
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