Grace

whose Indian (Native American?) name should have been Happiest While Eating.

Happy New Year!

I wanted to make one more post in 2006.

My wonderful little daughter eating her apple. She very carefully explained to Derek just exactly how she wanted she wanted the top cut off so she could start eating it. (You know, that first bite can be tough!)




Happy New Year, everybody!

Liza

Christmas morning

Here are some snaps from Christmas morning. There wasn't much light, so these are a little soft and grainy. Oh well.

The kids love their play food.

Charlotte shows Grace how it's done.

One that I managed to salvage in color.

The jack-in-the-box

The last three were taken in that order, each two seconds apart. You can really see how Grace copies Charlotte's every move sometimes.

This was my misguided attempt

to get both girls in the frame wearing their Christmas dresses on my backdrop. See what I have to work with? This one made Derek laugh out loud. Alot. He should laugh. I could post about 100 pictures of him sitting for me while I test my lights that have these same expressions. I swear. It must be a Mohr thing.

But then Grace indulged me by playing peekaboo with the drapes. Isn't she cute?

And amidst all the snapshots and outtakes

I get a new favorite image of my baby, Grace. Merry Christmas to me!

The Christmas Card

We did a mini photo shoot yesterday for the family Christmas card. Better late than never. I am not going to show the shot we got (yes, shot - singular) because I'm pretty sure that all 5 of you out there reading this are all on our card list. Here are some outtakes, though.

We see this little look quite alot. It is a cross between a puppy dog and a cobra.


Two of Charlotte being her giggly little self.



"Hello, Santa? Yes, I've been a very good girl this year..."

The new table

Grandma gave Charlotte and Grace this beautiful Pottery Barn table for Christmas. It came yesterday and the girls were very excited to set it up. I know we will get alot of great use out of it.

Assembling it was the perfect group project.


See how great a little helper Grace is? How did we ever do anything without her?


Charlotte announced right away that she had to 'do a project'. She was very business-like about it, as usual. Grace thinks it is a perfect place to sit and watch her shows. Is it a bad thing that about half of the recognizable words she can say are TV programs? Blues Clues, Diego, etc. I'm sure that's normal, right?




Oh, notice the patent leather Mary Janes? Grace has a bit of a shoe fetish.

And one of Grace

Not to be outdone by her big sister, Grace took her turn melting my heart by saying 'Mama' for the first time today. Until today she would say 'Daddy' very clearly on command and I swear she even said 'Grandma' and pointed when my mom pulled up in her car once. If I asked her to say 'Mama' she would giggle and shake her head no. Today when we were driving and she said 'Mama' very clearly and I turned around to see if I could really believe my ears, she just looked back at me and grinned. And said it again. True story, I swear.

Mippens

I was out of town this past weekend and got home on Tuesday. I found that Derek and the girls had been busy playing in the snow all weekend. I was playing with Charlotte on Tuesday afternoon and we decided to go outside. She started telling me very seriously all about her mippens. She explained how she wears her mippens on her hands. And how with her mippens, she can pick up the snow (explained with appropriate gesturing to emphasize the point). And how her mippens keep her hands warm. It was a whole little mippen monologue. I just about passed out from the cuteness.

She was remarkably cooperative about being photographed. It was, after all, a photoshoot for the mippens.

Pebbles

Last week, Grace came home from Doodlebugs with her hair done up like this...

It made us laugh, anyway.

I was trying to bounce my flash off the white door behind me, and this first frame was really mostly a test shot. I wish her hands weren't cut off and that I had framed it a little differently. This is the second (and final) shot that I got. She really wanted to go outside and was quite pissed that I ignored her request and kept fiddling with the camera. And thus ended the photo shoot.


I apologize for such infrequent posts lately. I definitely take fewer pictures of the kids these days that it gets dark so freaking early.