Flowers and Fifi

She is my mirror, my reflection. Yet defenitly her very own.



She is willful and strong, beautiful and smart. A princess and a tomboy.



She is Fifi and in a month, she will be three.

quiet moments with the kids

It doesn't happen that often these days, those quiet moments during the day.But every now and then, as the world whirls around us, I am stopped in my tracks.

Maybe it's the light or the way the wind is rustling around, what ever it is, I have to stop and take notice.  I breathe in and realize again, and again, and again that I have two amazing kids.

I like that photography helps me slow down time, at least a little bit, with each shutter click.

The Girl

Fifi, oh Fifi.

You are independent and feisty. Funny as all get out and my creative partner in crime.

You dress yourself- you have a major thing for PJs and dress upclothes of the princess variety.

You can tell me stories so long and elaborate that I need cliff notes to keep up, you love to paint and draw- sometimes in places you aren't supposed to or with mediums that I would rather see you eating then creating with. But, I usually let it slide because I see how happy it makes you to create and fill the world with COLOR!

You boss your brother around when you play "mommy and daddy", make me read you the Grinch Stole Christmas at least once a day and have your Daddy firmly wrapped around your pinky with your silly faces and jokes.

We passed the bottles onto the garbage man, you are working on going potty on the toilet and are sleeping so much more then you used to at night. When you tell me, "I'm a big girl" I nod my head yes and wonder where my itty bitty baby went.

Film Friday

First roll of film back from the Yashica.
I have so much to learn and figure out when it comes to metering correctly.
 

I did get a few gems that I was pleased with.
Also, I have started a tumblr blog to document my adventures in shooting film. 

I am calling it, an.a.log. 

Click on over and take a peak if you fancy.
I am hoping it will encourage me to keep shooting and sharing my analog adventures.

little moments

he's getting big. it blows me away that he came from me... 

I love watching him play and explore.

Team work at the Smile shop.
I am glad he wants to be a dentist when he grows up, because she was scared to get up in that big old chair alone...

silly. silly. silly

she is here to make us laugh. truly.

She is also a move and a shaker.

Swim lesson every Wednesday.
Followed by beautiful nap times.

yoga and post yoga coffee dates with my old coworkers-
who came to my class and made me feel pretty stinking supported on this journey.

blue skies and open windows

clumsy mornings where I spill the beans, literally.

A lap and a heart that is full.

Fifi Update

full of beauty and brains- I love watching her think through a problem and solve it in the most unique way.


She still loves her milka-milk and a good hair twirling. I soak up the time I get to have her sit on my lap, especially on the weekends when I can really enjoy it.


She got a hair cut, a little bob that makes the back of her neck look so sweet and grown up (sorry kid for the crazy hairline, you have mama's duck tail). The pink still is yet to wash off of her scalp form almost a two weeks ago.


the feisty is strong, but so is the sweet.


all ham and cheese.

Fifi, you are so much fun these days. you make me crazy- can you PLEASE just put on your clothes in the morning and KEEP them on, for more then a second? You make me smile- you singing "I'm a little tea pot" or "WASHED the spider out!" melts me every time. you are counting to ten and singing your ABC's proudly around the house while bouncing around in circles. You dance and sing to your own song and I do love that part about you more than anything.xoxoxo

festive

I was informed that there are ONLY 10 more days until Christmas...

Good thing we got the tree up this week.

Halloween Recap

There were these cute little pumpkins (down the street)

and then these cute little pumpkins (in my house)

O decided to go with the ghost theme after all and even let me paint his face. Fifi wanted nothing else but to be Minnie Mouse. 

She was the cutest darn Minnie there ever was, even if her mama forgot to put shoes on her for the trick-or-treating. Oops!
 
(I promise she was much happier than she looks here!)
Everyone was just to excited to go.

 

I got a little witchy at work

It was a fun day, but can someone please, please, please, do something with all that candy!

Party!

Spider-man showed up around 9 this morning... 

I highly underestimaged the amount of space and tangle that 25 balloons would need and make.

there were presents (THANK YOU!)

and best friends

And cousins

and a whole heck of a lot of bouncing around by big and small. 

I think everyone is going to sleep well tonight!