Sunday December 13, 2009 Take two on the family Christmas photo....this one's a keeper. Too bad we couldn't take one outside but it was 16 below with a windchill in the negative 30's. Guess it's really winter now ready or not.
So today we attempted a family Christmas card photo.... I think the getting ready part was too much for Ethan because this was out best shot...(notice not even the gum in this mouth could turn his mood around). Oh well, maybe the "perfect" family Christmas photo isn't in the cards for us this year.
Off to Maine for Thanksgiving with Joe's family!! Entertaining a little guy for a few hours on a small plane with no place to go can be a challenge... but suckers and cookies from wonderful flight attendants can make all the difference. I even brought gum for the take-offs (Ethan LOVES gum...not sure 16 month-olds are supposed to have gum) but he swallowed it every time before we even got off the ground. All in all he did great considering we had three flights each direction.
Wednesday November 11, 2009Before bed we read quite a few books if we're not too tired. This book is Ethan's favorite: My Little Fish House by Alice Palace about a little boy named Marvin who goes ice fishing with his Daddy. He LOVES "the Marvin book"!
Griffin talks with his hands - a lot. Here he is showing me just how big a t-rex was... or is. Seems that they are very much alive with how obsessed this one has become :) Rowan took the pic for us...
How often are the mom's missing in the photos? Too often! We are most often the eyes behind the camera capturing our children - not in them ourselves. Inspired by Skye's blog, we decided to commit to taking weekly pictures of ourselves (the mamas) and our kids (maybe whole families too, but at least one kid), and inviting all sorts of people we know to do the same. We will all post a weekly photograph per family. They may not be pretty (maybe our 5 year old is taking the picture this week), they may not be inspired (maybe dad is taking the picture), but they will be taken and saved for prosperity!
Posting Guidelines for Participants
You got a strange email from Brooke or Emily asking you to join and you want to play? Great! The rules? Really, only 1 - post a picture a week that has both you and a child in it. Include all your kids - great! Include friends? Fantastic. Hubby or partner included? Fine by us. The idea is to document our lives with our kids for a year. So use your own creativity. We realize that the quality of these may suffer a bit - but it is all in fun. It is ok if the 4 year old is taking the picture. It is also ok to post from your phone! Have fun with it!
Oh and just an administrative thing - please "tag" your photos with 1) your name and 2) what number you are at in the 52 week journey(example the 2nd picture would be 2/52). That way we can all search by the week or the mama.