More with the new floor

Photographic evidence that I do still have three children, and that the girls have not been kidnapped as was politely suggested by my Dad and Art on Thanksgiving. They just really don't like to sit for pictures. Charlotte indulged me for about 2 minutes today.

Grandma gave her 2 pairs of these tights and she wears them all the time. Today we went to the doctor for a rash on her face that is impetigo as I suspected (I retouched it out - thank you Photoshop). I guess the doctor forgot what room we were in when she tried to come back with the samples of the medicine for Charlotte's face. When we went to check out, the receptionist said, "Oh good, the doctor found you! She came running out here a few minutes ago saying 'which room? purple tights, purple tights.'" That made me laugh.

(Mom, I apologize for the punctuation nightmare on that last sentence. I actually did sit here and try to figure it out, but it eludes me this late at night.)



The baby indulges me for much longer. I give him another 9 months or so before he develops the camera angst.





Why oh why is the age at which these thighs are considered desirable wasted on someone too young to appreciate it.

My new floor

and my favorite little model.



A lousy snapshot of my very cute baby and my wonderful new floor in the big studio room. It's not quite done yet, actually, but we'll get it finished tomorrow one way or the other. Derek and I just quit for the night. Miraculously, all three children slept peacefully through all the banging. The system we worked out has Derek nail-gunning on one part and me hammering on another part at the same time. When the compresser kicks on, the noises combine to create quite a racket. Not a peep from upstairs, though.

More Eli

I have a few of the girls from this weekend, too. I need more pictures of them, but the baby is just so much more cooperative these days.

Eli

My fellow photographer and friend Doni has inspired me to play around more with textures and different processing ideas. She is better at it than I am. I don't know, do grunge and polka dotted hoods with floppy ears go together?

Love to Twirl

This red dress was called the "love to twirl" dress in the hanna Andersson catalog. I showed it to Charlotte and it was love at first site. Of the many things Charlottes loves, twirling is on the top of the list.

We talked about doing some pictures on the red couch and both girls were up for it. I tried some with Eli in there, but they just weren't quite right. We'll try again. Then we moved on to the jumping pictures, which are perfect.

I have a whole series of these, but this one is my favorite.





One of the boy.

Still a Peanut

Sometimes I think Eli is getting so big. Then, I put him is this box and I realized what a little guy he still is.






Derek helped me get him to smile. I usually toss shots that have this looking-over-your-shoulder eye contact, but captures of his cute smile are rare so this is a keeper.

New Room

We have been doing some small projects to make the studio parts of the house a little more presentable. The dining room had a dark blue flowery wallpaper on top and - I kid you not - bright turquoise paint underneath the chair rail. I knew i wanted a dark color to make a natural low-key room to shoot in. Plus, we like dark colored rooms. When I was a little kid (younger than 8) we re-decorated my bedroom and I begged my mom to paint the walls navy blue. It got nixed and I have wanted a navy room ever since. So, here it is at long last. I like it.



Eli likes to look at his hand when he lies like this. He holds his arm out in front of his face and wiggles his fingers with rapt attention. It is very cute. I have lots of shots like this.

The boy

absolutely refuses to smile for the camera. Generally he is the smiliest little guy. He lights up is you even look in his direction. If you talk to him he goes nuts making cooing, baby noises to respond.



I have lots more pictures to download and look at, but tonight only time for this one.