5/26/12

her three loves: bottle, blankie, and puppy...




She LOVES her bottle, blankie, and puppy. Makes me smile. Especially when she tries to feed puppy her bottle. Sigh...


5/22/12

project 21/52 {dream}

This kid plays hard and really he needs a nap every day but at four years old he doesn't want to take one. About 3 times a week, I find him in random places asleep. Yesterday, he feel asleep just like this. Made me giggle so of course I had to capture him dreaming away...

5/20/12

project 20/52


All year I have been doing a little personal photo project. I haven't really shared much of it on the blog. It's a 52 week project or one photo a week for a year. Each week there is a theme. This week's theme is motherhood and as many of you mommas out there know, May is a busy month when you have kids in school. I have hardly picked up my camera the last two weeks. I've been running all over: piano recitals, baseball games, soccer games, preschool programs, kindergarten graduation, dance recitals, class parties and the list goes on! I did manage to capture this moment though. This is my kindergartner. She is growing up so fast (makes me wanna cry) but this is motherhood. It's my job to make sure all these little monotonous things (like homework) get done so they can grow up to be responsible adults. It's really hard a lot of the time and I must admit that 8:00pm (aka bedtime) might be favorite time of day on many days. BUT there are always times during the day when I have little moments that make it all worth it. Sometimes they are silly things like watching my growing 6 year-old-soon-to-be-1st-grader do her very last kindergarten homework assignment and feeling the depth of just how much I love her...motherhood SO HARD yet so REWARDING!


PS If you want to see my other project 52 photos head on over to my flickr photostream here.

5/8/12

hey girl...

Hey girl, love the way those Ivory dish soap suds frame your face for the photo! hehe 
Go check out more "Hey Girl" entries here.
For more of this bubbly series go here.

5/7/12

all she wants for christmas is her two front teeth...



She lost her two front teeth two consecutive days in a row! After she lost the first one, she cried and told me "Now I can never smile because I look so ugly".  It about broke my heart. I mean, she is only six years old. When my son lost his front teeth, he could have cared less. He was just excited for the money he would get from the tooth fairy! Of course the next day at school, a kid told her she needed braces. Sigh. The next day when she lost this one, she was a little more used to the idea. She still wasn't diggin' it though (as can plainly be seen from her expression in many of these photos). I may have bribed her to show her teeth for the picture. I think she looks pretty dang cute but she doesn't believe me!
She's growing up and it SCARES me to death!

5/5/12

almost one year ago...




Sigh...she has grown soooo much. It SCARES me how fast time is passing. In the chaos of learning to cope with having four kiddos last year, I'm realizing, as I go though my hard drive, that I took lots of pictures throughout the year and hardly even looked at them. I edited almost none. These are like new to me and I'm SO happy to have them.

PS  Can someone PLEASE stop time for me? Thanks.

5/2/12

what's more fun than a tub full of bubbles? umm...nothing!

bath time fun


And just when you think it can't be ANY more fun, baby sister crashes the party!




Don't you wish you were a kid again?