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You wanted to actually see the family shot? I meant to save that last post as a draft but I guess I published it instead. So here's the first of our 5 family portraits that I was describing. I would love to do some more candid action shots in the series, but it is tough using the self timer. We'll see what we can come up with.



Eli is 20 months old. He still doesn't have a single reliable, recognizable word (in English). He does a lot of interesting sounding babbling, though. He seems to think he is speaking and he definitely knows what he wants to say. I can't wait until he lets the rest of us in on his secrets. He has a board book that he loves. It is a Baby Bop (from Barney) counting book. When you get to the end he flips back to page 1 so you can start all over again. When I close my eyes I can clearly see a little 2.5 foot person chasing after me waving this book in his hand.

Gracie makes me laugh all the because she can use all kinds of big words in everyday conversation, but she still has a very lisp-y, slurred way of making her letter sounds. She's in speech therapy twice a week and I am guessing it will continue when she gets to Kindergarten. She was telling me all about something we couldn't find and how maybe it was camouflaged, only she says it like camoufwaged. There are lots of other funny examples, but that's the first one I thought of.

I really wanted Charlotte to wear jeans for the shoot above. You can see who won out. She knows what she wants to wear and it is usually not worth the argument to try to change her mind. She had an outfit of her own design on the other day that consisted of a shirt, skirt and pants all in conflicting shades of pink and patterns. I told her she would have to change before going to her friend's birthday party. I showed her some ideas of what would be acceptable combinations. She said with pouty reluctance, "but that's not as beautiful to me."