I know only a few people even read this blog anymore (thanks to Facebook!) but I wanted to post these anyway so I can look back and have a better record of stuff that goes on in our life! So here are a few pictures I took of Shelby last night with the adorable outfit her Aunt Nikki gave her for her birthday!
1. Around the 4th of July, Shelby had a few days where she was SUPER cranky. One particular morning was no exception. Ben was really tired from two nights of staying up way too late because of 4th of July festivities, so he was sprawled on the couch under a blanket while I was trying to get a restless Shelby to take a nap. After a few screaming fits from her, Ben turns to me and says, "Mom. I'm allergic to babies."
2. We see commercials for seafood restaurants a lot on tv and Ben thinks it's so gross. But he insists that when he's "a daddy" he will like to eat fish. More specifically, when he's 45 years old he will eat lobster.
3. Ben thinks only dads go to college. So he always says he can't wait till he's "a daddy" so he can go to college.
4. Have you seen Toy Story 3? Well there's this monkey in it and Ben's a little terrified of the monkey (for good reason). The thing overlooks the entire day care center to make sure no toys escape. Ben hates this part. He told me that when we go to the post office we have to behave ourselves or the monkey will get us. I kept trying to figure out why he thought this and realized there's a surveillance camera at the post office that looks just like the one in the movie. I'm still debating whether to go with it as a way to get him to behave in line at the post office or tell him the monkey isn't really behind that camera watching us.
5. When he plays "this little monkey" with Shelby's toes he always changes it up. "This little monkey went to college." "This little monkey went to jail." "This little monkey went to Target." "This little monkey went to time-out."
6. Anytime there's a really beautiful sunset and lots of clouds in the sky Ben insists that's where Jesus lives, up in those clouds.
7. Ben sneezed the other day and came over to me and told me that he'd just sneezed and that he was now having a "germ party."
8. The first time Ben ever watched me change Shelby's diaper he was really confused. He wanted to know why she didn't have a "pee pee." I waited a second to respond and before I could he goes, "Oh! She doesn't have a pee pee, she just has a booty in the front AND the back!"
Here are a few pics I took of Ben last week as an impromptu 4-year session. We headed to Grapevine to the vintage railroad sine Ben is still completely obsessed with trains. I love this kid! He drives me absolutely crazy most days, but I still love him to death!
Here's one picture from her newborn shoot I did yesterday at my sister Mandie's house. She's got more space and better light and the backdrop I needed to be able to do it! Thanks for letting me borrow your house, Mandie!
I think she's the cutest thing ever. I'll try to post more soon I promise!
My family has lots of traditions around holidays. This year we had so much fun! On the 3rd we went with part of my family to Concerts in the Gardens, an annual tradition, to watch their amazing fireworks display and hear the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Needless to say it was so. hot. And Ben really freaked out this year and had to go potty every 10 minutes. He clung to John during the fireworks and was finally okay with them about halfway through. At least he says he had fun! The concert was delayed because of technical difficulties so we got home REALLY late. And we had a photo shoot on Saturday morning to we were exhausted all day long!
Here are some pictures of Friday night's festivities. I really love taking pictures of fireworks. These aren't too shabby considering I was using 2-3 second exposures with no tripod!
My niece Anna just donated her hair to Locks of Love for the second time. Very cool!
Anyone else see the wicked awesome lightning we got tonight? John got this one on his first try shooting lightning. Nice!
John and I had to go do some location scouting this morning for a shoot next weekend in Deep Ellum. So we thought it would be a good chance to take some 3-year pics of Ben! It was getting close to lunch time by the time we got there and drove around to the spots we were looking for so we didn't shoot for very long! But we did get some cute cute ones (but of course I'm biased!) John took the big one of Ben as well as the more square close up near the bottom.
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