Happy Halloween, Yall!

We're having big fun despite being exhausted. We're about to go trick or treating so stay tuned for more pictures and of course... wish us the best of luck for getting all the available chocolate and then some.

Honk if you love Rosa Jane

in the Conservatory with art.

Ice Cream for Breakfast

The Girls

Here we are at the Pixie's house. We love Chicago. See more pictures....

Photo Day at School

It's Rosa Jane's second time to have a photographer at school today. I took more care to dress her this morning and thought, I better get a picture of this, JIC (just in case). hahaha.

In any event, doesn't she just look adorable? And more importantly just like somebody you'd like to know . . .

Assignment Theme: Growth

A couple friends and I are challenging each other to be creative and think outside our typical shooting styles. This is my interpretation.

Post-Thomas, Mid-laydown

She's not necessarily screaming her headoff she's just curled up with the gravel and dirt on the sidewalk because it's comfortable to her.

EEK! a Big Hairy Spider!

All day thursday I carried this bag around town, filled to the brim. Friday morning I cleaned it out only to find this big hairy spider that I thought RJ had made it from pipe-cleaners. Sure it was realistic, but my two-year old is amazing, dontcha know. When I saw it flinch I about jumped outta my skin. I still can't figure out what kind of spider it is.

If you can figure it out, please tell me. It's big, with black hairy legs and a brown flat-ish body. Very hairy. and did I mention CREEPY?

First Baby Parade

Well, we can cross it off our list. Our first baby parade and everyone had fun and ate a lot of SNACKS! The Theme was Mighty Molar says, Brush away those SugarBugs! So we had a dentist and a mighty molar and 10 little candy corns. Many more pictures will be uploaded to my faux-toes site in the coming week. Password under the clients link will be "parade."

Stay tuned for more.

Fleeting moments of serenity

My sister and I have spent the last few days together. Over breakfast on Friday, Caren made the comment, "see how fun it would be to have another 2 years apart" as we watched Brett and Rosa Jane eat breakfast together. Then a mere moment later they were fighting over spida-man.
Our photo session didn't go over so well. I think it's mainly because of the mother/daughter relationship with the peanut that she smiles, but won't look at the camera. She's a silly kid and I don't fight her on it. There are much bigger issues in the world.

Click on the picture to see more of sweet moments between a 2 and 4 yr old.

She is my sunshine

Today started off shaky. She threw up shortly after awaking and so all regularly scheduled activities were off. We cleaned the kitchen and started some laundry. We played on the porch while we watched the trash collectors come and go. We jumped up and down when the UPS came to our door on the early round and dropped off my brand new camera, a Canon 5d. I am in love with it. And I feel so proud because I've saved and saved and saved for it over the past few months and was able to pay cash for it. Sweet joy.

Rosa Jane asked to hold my hand as we walked through the house picking up toys and putting shoes away. I love holding her hand and she never wants to when it's my idea. She squeezes tightly and I hope I'll never forget how lovely that feels.

We went to Sonic and sat at their picnic tables to enjoy our lunch of a grilled cheese cut into quarters, tater tots and a jr burger for me.
Next we ankle-expressed it next door to the nursery to fetch some bluebonnet seeds for my true love. The secret is to plant them in October so they will bloom in the spring. He's in charge of this project and I can't wait to see the results come April.

Next we went to the grocery store. I never like going to the grocery store, but Rosa Jane doesn't mind as long as I strap her baby in the shopping cart next to her.

We came home and I hoped and hoped and hoped she'd nap, but to no avail. After an hour in her crib, I fetched her and brought her upstairs to my studio set up. She played along for a little while, but as you can see from the pictures (click through to see the entire set), she really liked playing on the ottoman anywhere but on the backdrop. Oh well, I still love her.

Welcome to my Studio, Little Girl

While Rosa Jane slept, or shall we say sang songs loudly in her crib until she passed out, Momma was upstairs playing with her new backdrops and lighting. Yum!! I could eat this up all day long.

Mommy, Sit down. Mommy, Sit down. Sit down, Mommy.

Sometimes (on very rare occasions) I'll find myself engrossed in my computer, catching up on the news or email or just looking at photos. My darling daughter will stand next to me and repeat herself until she's blue in the face and I look up to assess the situation. Today, I looked up to find this scene.

Funny, Rosa Jane. I do believe I will have a seat. Thanks.

In other musings, I admit to being terrified that my once cute-as-pie and could do-no-wrong-ever daughter has grown up to be a monster toddler who pays no attention to her mother. Yes, I know she's testing me, but to have her repeat back to me the things we've said to her is a bit unnerving. For example, she now demands her milk saying, "i want some milk right now, mommy." And for a while she could take or leave Baby Princess, she now seems to be a staple that we have to lug around everywhere. No other baby will do and she is the largest, by now rattiest-looking cabbage patch kid ever.

A grateful journal

I'm starting a grateful journal so I'm trying to think of at least two things each day for which to be grateful. Today, as I lay in bed in the wee 6o'clock hour, I am grateful for a sweet husband who fetches the babe before he gets in the shower and for the subsequential pitter patter of little feet on the hardwood floors. Later this morning on our long fast walk/partial run, I was thankful that Hank didn't get runned over when he was just two inches from the tire of a big white truck going way too fast on a blind hill.

Rosa Jane's Preschool

It just occurred to me that I've fallen far, far behind in blogging about Rosa Jane's current perculiarities. I just picked her up from preschool and she has all her babies on the couch with her, along with her cooking supplies so she can feed them when they awake. Click on the picture to see the special notes.

King Tut and Rosa Jane

We took our friends to Richland with us this weekend. It was lots of fun hanging in the country and fishing all day. We won't talk about how little sleep we got b/c of the kids.

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