Day 5

I am honestly going to make more of an effort to take pictures of the kids on days that I work. My reasoning for not doing it during the day yesterday is because we stayed indoors all day and I didn't want to get the same 'ol.

Today (Tuesday) is the 18th and I wanted to share with you pictures of the girls on August 18th 2008. For those of you that know the kids will know how significantly different they are from a year ago.
Emma is way smaller than Izzy was at the same age. She's wearing pants that Emma swims in and shoes that Emma isn't even close to fitting. Izzy's just really tall for her age! A lot of people think she's 4 instead of 2.



We had gone on a walk and they fell asleep in the stroller. I really need to go for a walk.

More tomorrow, I promise!

Day 4 - Sunday

Oops I missed Day 3 (Saturday). I was working the whole day and forgot to get a picture. Shame on me!

On Sunday we went to the Tattoo and Arts festival. $40 entry + $12 parking + a bad festival with not many booths and nothing really exciting = not happy me. But we did manage to get quite a bit of money for a bunch of things we took to cash convertors so we went out for a nice lunch and got Wii Resort (yaaaay).


Emma at the festival



Having a snuggle on the couch before bed time. Don't fool yourself, they weren't actually sitting like this. We put them next to each other and made them cuddle which didn't last very long.



Just wanted to share a picture of the girls last August. Can you believe the difference already? I cannot believe how big they are!

Day 2

I knew the one problem with doing this a day after it happened, or in this case a couple days, was that I would completely forget what went on.
I think I mostly remember. I have the memory of an 80 year old. No offense to any 80 year olds whose memories might be better than mine.

Friday was a dreary day. Raining and overcast the whole day. I still can't believe that it is August and the weather is like this?

I really like this one of Izzy. She's such a beautiful girl with a beautiful smile. I wish she would actually let me do photoshoots with her because she would be so much fun to dress up!

Do I have cute kids or do I have cute kids? You can't even say that I'm their mom and I'm supposed to say that because... LOOK at that face! I can kind of see why everyone thinks she is a boy, but she's got those big heartbreaker eyes. She got those from her daddy :)

A rare moment of sisterly love. I sincerely hope I don't have to listen to myself yell for the next 16 years at these kids about fighting. I know a lot of you are laughing at me right now. That's not nice.
The funny thing is Emma is starting to get to the age where she fights back. Before she would just cry and we would all flock to her "oooh Emmaaaa commme herrreee" and make it so much worse because of that face. Izzy is a good big sister though. She teaches her sister the ways of the world as she knows it (climbing on the table and putting all the cat food into the cat water), and she makes sure that if she gets something that Emma gets one as well. My babies make me so proud.

Something new she has learned. Upside down! If you peek between her legs she collapses in a fit of giggles and repeats the whole thing several. hundred. times. I wish I was that easily entertained!

The mean mother that I am, my intention was to go in there and get a pictures of the peacefulness that is nap time. However, both kids were awake lying in their beds quietly when I got there. Probably better anyway. A child that has been woken up is a grumpy child.
As you can see Izzy has a very colorful rooms. 2 brown walls and 2 pink. With Dora the Explorer bedding. A 2 year old's dream!

Have a good Sunday everyone! We're off to the tattoo expo today. See you tomorrow!

Day -1 turned Day 1 because I realized I DID have pictures!

In the spirit of the "30 Days of [Blank]" floating around the blogosphere, I have decided to participate with 30 days of photos. Photos of my life, mostly my kids.

The idea of 30 days of something is that if you do something for 30 days, it becomes a habit. While attempting to do "First Year" books on MyPublisher for my kids, I realized just how few photos I have. Fewer than what I'd like anyway. For someone who calls herself an aspiring photographer, I feel very shameful that I have not documented my kids first years to the extent that I would like. I don't have many photos from when I was a baby, and no keepsakes or videos aside from a blanket and a doll that has lost her clothes over the years. I want that for my kids. I want to be better about collecting the memories or my kids' childhoods.

I saw this video in which a father has taken a picture of his son every day for an entire year, and made a time lapse calendar video out of it. I am so jealous and wish that I had done that!!!

Anyways, as luck would have it, I did pull out my camera yesterday and snap a few of my kids. Nothing exciting, as I didn't have this idea in my head yet. But tomorrow will be better, I promise!


One of the rare occasions I manage to get a picture of Iz actually LOOKING at the camera AND it's relatively focused. I'll take what I can get.


If you are not already familiar with my kids, you need to know how important this thumb is. This thumb, her love of sleep and the blanket that is usually not too far away. They have easily made the last year of my life much easier than it otherwise could have been. And today I am thankful for them.

Today was lame, I know. But in my defense I didn't know that I would be doing this today. Tomorrow will be better. I promise.

Anywho the rules of this experiment are as follows:
-I will take as many photos of the day as I can and post them the following day as Day X
-They are nothing special and will not be edited beyond iPhoto. I.e. no Photoshop
-Do NOT steal my photos. Unless you're family. I think from now on I will post them to my Zenfolio account. That way family can access the password protected gallery and download the original high res version and print them if they want. Just leave a comment here and I will send you the password.

I'm hoping that by the end of this it will be a habit to take pictures every day and I will continue to do it. Someone please think of an appropriate punishment for me if I miss a day.
At the worst, I'll have way more pictures than I have now, and my family will be able to see the kids grow and have pictures for their own galleries.

*Update: to make up for my lame post today, I have added a few past photos to the gallery! Leave a comment and I will send you the password*

Love, Jess