For Sal
Posted on May 18, 2010
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JaM
Posted on May 8, 2010
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The Sweetness
Posted on April 21, 2010
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My Assistant
Posted on April 18, 2010
Pictures from actual session coming soon.
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The Angler
Posted on April 12, 2010
We spent last weekend at the lake with friends and family.
Jacob was excited to go, as usual, and I couldn’t believe how determined a fisherman he’s become now. He sat (or stood) on the dock, fishing pole in hand, for hours. {As far as I can remember, he hasn’t remained still for an appreciable amount of time in the last couple of years otherwise. 
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Everyone hoped he’d catch something. After all, he’d devoted so much time to the effort. And the next day:
… a two pound white perch (so they said… I haven’t a clue). According to Jacob’s retelling, he caught a huge “white pearl fish”. He was so proud of himself. I’m going to print that picture for him to hang in his room. He has a “spot on the wall picked out for it.”
Thanks to everyone involved for a great weekend. And thanks to Amber and Eddie for coming with us. 
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For Amber
Posted on April 8, 2010
{I’ll work on your ’sign’ pictures later. }
Oh, and this Molly picture is for you, too:
Easter- Part One
Posted on April 8, 2010
This year, Jacob asked me if I thought the Easter Bunny could bring him “some of those eggs with the candy inside… instead of those eggs that are just squishy inside like he always does”. Essentially, he was requesting plastic, candy-filled eggs as opposed to the ‘real’ eggs the Bunny usually hides. Kids.
So this year we had two Easter egg hunts. I can’t just do plastic eggs.
The day before Easter, Jacob dyed the eggs (while Molly napped- Sorry Molly! Maybe next year…) and we hid them and had a pre-Easter egg hunt.
Before I go any further, I should tell you that Molly is going through a really cute phase of making a SURPRISED!!! face whenever she thinks it might possibly be appropriate. It looks a little like this:
… and she made that face Every. Single. Time. she picked up an egg. Adorable.
Jacob still loves finding eggs. Even after all of the eggs had been found, he hid them again himself and then would exclaim, “I found another one!” whenever he plopped one into his basket. (Basically, he was giving the verbal equivalent of Molly’s face above.) Well, you did hide them, son.
It took Molly a little while to get the hang of the hunting process. You pretty much had to lead her to an egg, fend off Jacob from picking it up first, and then watch the SURPRISED!!! WHAT IS THIS?!! HOW EXCITING!!! face, followed by this:
Molly still has a love for balls… and those eggs sure looked a lot like balls to her. Can you tell that she’s throwing the egg in the last picture? It wasn’t too bad on the grass; it became quite messy when she’d throw them on the sidewalk.
They had a great time- even with the “squishy” eggs. I’ll post about the Easter Bunny’s arrival in Part Two.
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Catching Up
Posted on March 25, 2010
Most of you probably don’t know that I’ve suffered a great deal of computer problems lately. It has caused me tremendous stress and I am just now getting caught up on the work I was doing before the ‘catastrophe’. So if you have wondered why all you’ve been seeing or hearing around here are crickets, it is because I am over my head in old and new work and have not had much time for personal pictures.
Also, when I announced here that I was pregnant, I said I reserved the right to say “all I can handle is my own kids; no pictures of other people for the time being”. Well, now I’m exercising that right. All I can handle right now are taking care of my own kids, finishing up the work I already have, and, of course, honoring the commitments I have already made to a couple other clients in the coming weeks. After that, I am taking an extended break. Sorry.
Hopefully, I’ll soon be able to catch up on everything and get back in the swing of posting more frequently. In the meantime, here’s an old (?) picture of Jacob- and my favorite smile:
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Hank the Cowdog
Posted on March 12, 2010
Today is another dress-up day at Jacob’s school. We’ve already done Johnny Appleseed and Native Americans, today we’re doing favorite storybook characters. Jacob has a monkey costume, so I tried to lead him in the direction of Curious George- who is definitely one of his favorites. That, of course, would have been too easy.
Instead, Jacob insisted on becoming ‘Hank the Cowdog‘- the hero of the chapter book series of the same name.
We’re currently reading our second book in the installment, and I must agree that they are quite entertaining.
Here’s the Head of Ranch Security, Hank:
{I spent more time than I care to admit painting that shirt.}
Jacob has been wearing the ‘hat’ around for days now. He was so excited to put on his entire costume this morning!
And a little known fact, not included in the book series: Hank levitates.
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Posted on March 3, 2010
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