Your favorite thing to do is to have face-to-face conversations with your mommy, daddy, sister or other loving visitor. You do a very good job of keeping up your side of the conversation with coos and baby noises at the appropriate time. As long as you are not battling fatigue, hunger, gas or a messy diaper you pretty much smile non-stop, especially during aforementioned conversations.
Another love of yours is to fall asleep on your mommy’s chest during the 20 minutes of “upright time” we always honor after feeding you, to keep that milk from spitting up.
We do, however, think you are starting to learn how to work the system a bit as you inevitably end up back sleeping on mommy’s chest even when you started out in your crib or with someone else holding you. Therefore, a new effort to make sure you take the majority of your naps in your crib has been instituted. This is probably harder for mommy than you as she loves having you so close to her and doesn’t mind a bit if an entire day slips away with intimate time with you as her only engagement.
At long last, I pulled together a little video to share some of our favorite photos from our newborn session when Eloise was just two weeks old. It is amazing how much she has already changed since then.
Photos by Tamara Kenyon Photography
Music is Lullaby by The Dixie Chicks.
My daily walks through Boise’s historic North End are inspiring me to become a better photographer. There are countless unique and beautiful buildings and flowers to admire like this detached garage. One day I hope to make a photography experiment out of it and even bring the big camera along…
It’s true what “they” say about taking fewer photos of the second child but it’s not because we are any less infatuated with Eloise than we were with Belén. It’s just that the man on man coverage makes it so the parent not watching the baby is watching the toddler rather than trying to find the best lighting to illuminate the baby’s face for a photograph.
When I noticed we have taken fewer photos of Eloise early last week, I promptly removed the camera from it’s case and left it on the dining room table so any time Eloise did anything cute or the lighting was hitting her just perfectly, I could easily grab the camera and snap a few photos.
In the course of about two and a half minutes, I was able to capture the following faces of Miss Eloise.
There are some seriously cool innovations utilizing smart phones, iPads and social media these days. In this past week, I have learned of two noteworthy applications worth sharing.
One, PInterest, allows you to “pin” websites and collect images from all over the vast internet posting them on boards. Here is a link to a few things I have pinned. I LOVE this idea because I am constantly sending links to myself via email to save recipes, project ideas or news articles I want to read when I have more time, but PInterest allows me to save them all in one place. It also has a social media aspect to it where you can follow your friend’s pins and repin them if you so desire. This shows some of the boards from people I “follow” and gives you an idea of how pinned items are collected onto boards.
Without further ado, here are our favorite photos from the maternity photo shoot on February 21st.
I am happy to report Ozzie, our cat…you know the one we waited an entire day to take to the vet to avoid the costs of the emergency vet, is doing quite well. He has made a full recovery from his head trauma and teeth pulling. He even shared scraps of the most amazing Ribeye steak Andy has ever made with Sassy tonight. We still don’t know if his “high calcium levels” means he has cancer or what, but he appears to be a normal, healthy, old cat who now lives in the backyard with Sassy dog. They seem quite content with one another in their geriatric club med.
One night last week when we were out and about, we all found ourselves a little bit hungry so we stopped at a local Mexican restaurant. Belén was past her bedtime and restless which led to her running like a crazy woman around said restaurant (yes, we were those parents!) I finally caught her and attempted to entertain her by taking pictures of “daddy” with my iPhone. She actually took this picture.
It didn’t take long after Belén had woken up from her nap for Tamara to earn her trust. Soon after that Belén began posing… Girly girl, I am telling you!
Andy and I have tried for 14 months to capture her essence and our friend Tamara was able to do it in literally ten minutes while I was off talking with a couple of friends. Tamara has just made photography her full-time gig. I think she is going to do quite well for herself!’
