Charlotte

I love these new shots of Charlotte. Turns out the light is great in our bathroom. And she was sort of a captive little subject here :) I was trying later on to convince Grace to go sit on the potty so I could shoot her, too. (She was on to me, and wisely refused.)

These are great images of Charlotte giggling. They look just like her to me.




This one also looks very much like her. She has the cutest little pout.

The family

Derek pestered me about taking a family picture, which we have a severe lack of. We just took try with the self timer today at Akron Falls Park.

Haircuts

Both Charlotte and Grace got a haircut this morning. I finally decided to cut Gracie's hair short. I loved the pigtails, but she holds both hands over her head and says "no hurt me, no hurt me" every time I have to redo them. I always swore I wouldn't be the mom who tortured her kid over hair when she was too young to care, so we chopped it all off. It looks very cute.

I got one frame of Grace in the car. It made Derek laugh. The thought bubble would be "give me back my effing binky!"



This is Charlotte wearing her Dora Mermaid crown. We cut it out of the back of her new Dora Mermaid coloring book and she wore it all day.

Some pictures from Charlotte

Charlotte has a Fisher Price kids digital camera. We made a special trip to the toy store today to get new batteries for it. I would really like to get her a camera that takes nicer pictures, but I haven't found just the one that I am looking for.

Charlotte's idea was to take pictures of each other at the same time. Here's mine.



Here's one of hers.


Then we switched cameras.


Here are two that I like from the old house. The view from inside her crib.

Ya Ya

Grace is crazy about her Daddy. She pronounces "Dada" more like "Yaya". Grace never has been very particular about diction. She insists on having Derek do certain things for her, like cover her up with her blanket at night. If I try to change her diaper she tells me emphatically, "No change me. Yaya change me." No problem, kid. I pass that job right on over to Derek.

Backlit pigtails

Just one from the other night at the playground.

If loving this picture is wrong

I really don't want to be right.



Grace and that adorable toddler booty, getting into the tub last night.

Another nostalgic post

I have been planning this shot for awhile, waiting for the right day. The earlier shot was taken two years ago today. Two years that went by awfully fast! It's an unfortunately inauspicious anniversary for this little shot, but what can you do.





I am completely indebted to Charlotte for this shot that I wanted so much. I put the little chair in place and set up the lights and got my camera. I cajoled Grace into the little red skirt and white shirt. I asked her if she wanted to go and sit in the chair. Not really, no. I managed to get her playing with me enough that she would run over and stand in front of the chair and grin, but not actually sit. She was having fun, though, so we were still doing okay. Charlotte came by and asked what we were doing. I told Charlotte I wanted Grace to sit in the chair so I could take a picture. I asked Charlotte, did she want to sit in the chair for a picture?

Bam! Charlotte invented a game where she sat in the chair and pretended to sleep. Then Grace and I would call "wake up, Charlotte!" (and take a picture). And she would sit up and giggle and laugh. Grace predictably wanted a turn. We probably did this 20 times back and forth and they laughed and laughed. Actually, we all laughed and laughed. Yeah, Charlotte!

In the course of the game, Charlotte got into all kinds of different positions on the little chair. Grace carefully copied each one. This made me laugh most of all.