and this face.
yindi and i have a special bond. im not sure if its because i was there when she popped out into this world, or because she is just an amazing baby who opened her heart up to someone besides her mom and dad. whatever the reason, i scoop her love up with a big spoon and eat as much as i can until she has to leave again.
on saturday in the shade of the bounce house:
me: "come over here and be my footstool."
him: "dont i even get the weekends off?"
all from friday:
"mom, what is your favorite thing about daddy?"
"what color skin do bees have?"
"dad, how long have you known mom?"
"how does the color get inside of a crayon?"
"why does that freckle look like a chocolate chip?"
"how long have i loved Silkie?"
and our answers:
"that is such a hard one-but if i had to pick my VERY favorite thing about daddy its how he can always make me laugh, even if i am sad or mad."
"ummm....what color skin do YOU think they have?"
"ever since fourth grade."
"it runs as fast as it can and jumps inside!"
"because i ate too much ice cream when i was a little kid."
"since forever."
busy day today-session this morning, then lots of work this afternoon. my website is undergoing some back end updates, thats why its been down. also updating the galleries and splash page. announcing my travel destinations for 2008, and new packages/options. im also working on getting a custom blog created. so some exciting changes for me in the coming days/weeks.
ill keep you posted-gotta run a kid to school, and then off to oceanside i go! -t
so last year michelle got in touch with me and wanted to fly down to southern cali for a trip with her husband. we had everything planned...until she went and got herself knocked up!
sooo they decided to hold off and come down once the babe had percolated a little bit...we met up at crystal cove state beach and had so much fun that even once the sun went down we grabbed appetizers and drinks at the restaurant down there. and we got to use michelle's fragile condition as an excuse not to hike back up the hill and use the shuttle instead. some guy said "i just hate having to use my body." as we got on. made me laugh. and i think the shuttle driver liked me a little bit too much...he says he remembers everyone who rides, so next time ill have to test him.
but anyway...the tunnel at crystal cove was "flooded" or so the signs said. we just rolled up our jeans and went in anyway.
i looove this one! she had a couple tattoos, you can see them on her belly here and there.
they had so much energy and loved to play. arent they just so CUTE?
best hair ever award, and i just adore the shape of her tummy.
i take no responsibility for the creation of this leaf. they said canadians would understand....
james i hope rowan has more hair then you do!
did you guys see Elf?
did you love Zooey Deschanel when she sang in the shower in that movie?
did you google her name after and try to find anything she had recorded online?
did you get totally bummed when you couldnt find anything?
i did.
but now all my dreams have come true.
she has an album: She&Him
i havent had much of a listen to it yet, just discovered it today while buying some music. but my initial preview had me feeling like i was sitting in a cozy chair with a quilt on the porch of a beach house in nantucket, surrounded by reeds and white sand. and she was playing on speakers in the house. and ive never even been to nantucket, but that is what i imagine it would be like.
this morning as we were all piling into my car to get to school, drew and mckenna were racing to get to the front seat.
drew got there first, opened the front door, started to get in, and then tricked mckenna and climbed into the backseat, letting her get the front.
as she saw drew getting into the front, she said "awwww drew, you suck!"
she has never said that before. mom, arent you proud?! im carrying on the "suck" tradition! along with all the burping!
i was so excited in february to get contacted by two pregnant women. the first was a mom that learned of me through my friend sheridan. sheridan is a doula here in orange county, and she also teaches hyno-babies classes.. Hypnobabies is the training of the inner mind so that contractions in labor are felt only as pressure and tightening sensations. There is no pain. (i have watched sheridan give birth without any medication. it was amazing.)
erin decided to hire me for a maternity and newborn session. cant wait to go back for little sam, who was born just a day after these pictures were taken.
she had a glorious bathroom-so we started in there.
then we got dressed and headed out and about in san clemente.
i couldnt take a bad photo of this sweet girl.
i kept thinking throughout our session how her little bellybutton looked like a nose...
so when we got back to her place, we whipped out the eye and lip pencils.
and that is why this post is titled: happy belly!
ive been told that my photos arent turning up on my feed. i made some changes, but am unsure why that is happening. i know it often takes some time for the actual feed to update after changes have been made. but i didnt do anything that should get rid of the photos...bare with me.
(i can see them when i click the RSS button in my address)
this one is blurry because we were all laughing so hard. but i dont remember why.
we took lots of mckenna-she was being so cute.
jeff took these:
(im gonna getcha)
seriously dont bug me, im holding onto a kite for dear life
LOVE THIS! makes me get shivers i love him so. he always makes me laugh like this.
we had plans on saturday to take the kids to this amazing hill i found. right now, everything is super green because we have had so much rain, and these yellow weeds are blooming all over the place. (HORRIBLE FOR MY ALLERGIES, glorious for my eyes to see) i drink the beauty of our hills in daily-can hardly keep my eyes off them they are so pretty. this wont last long. soon they will be dead and brown again. i am DETERMINED this year to take advantage of them. ive been looking all over for a hill/field that is not fenced and is easy to get to for kenna.
but our plans changed when we realized the wind had kicked up, it was pretty cold (for us), and the kids would have been miserable posing for me on a hill.
im glad.
(good idea, babe.)
