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30ish weeks

by photochick~ Cute and pregnant. Right. You would think I would have been prepared for the fact that that is not going to be me. Considering this is not my first time around the block. Not that I was expecting cute and pregnant, but as the last trimester hits in full force it is always a bit of a shock I think.

I just keep telling myself what I tell my photography clients . . . when you are 80 years old sitting around the nursing home looking at old photos, what you looked like in a maternity photo will lilkely not seem so important. I'm pretty sure you'll just be happy to have the photo. To remember what a special time it is to grow another human being for 9 months.

I'm especially sure this will be true because you will be so far removed that you can no longer remember the backaches and swelling feet and nose bleeds (yes, nose bleeds. what the heck?) and the other litlte joys that go along with it. I'm pretty sure we would just give our right arm to have those days back. Just ask your grandmother.

In that line of thinking . . . me . . . at 30ish weeks (because I'm still running for mother of the year and don't know exactly how many weeks I am.)

funny face

  by plannerchick ~ A few weeks ago my chicklet kept making the funniest face at Bossy Chick. I tried to catch it on camera, but never could. I did however get some very cute pics. He is getting such a personality, and it is SOOO much fun!

 

a year ago, or two

by photochick~ I saw a cool idea on someone's blog (have no idea where now, or i would do them justice and link up) to look through your photo file and find a photo from about this time a year ago, or two years ago. I was totally not expecting the emotion I felt when I found these photos. How in the world did my baby grow up so fast?

Two years ago: (one of my first photo shoots with punkin and his daddy)

 

One year ago: (playing at the park . . . oh how we miss that park!)

 

Now: (a big boy helping Pops coach the Ladycats)

 

My observations:

1) I don't think he's gained a pound in 2 years, just grown straight up!

2) This is petty, but truly what comes to mind: I don't care how scraggly it looks some days, I love his long curly hair. Our last haircut was wayyyyy too short (as seen in current photo) and seeing it in a photo reminds me how MUCH I don't like it! Truthfully, probably because he looks so much older. Ick! :=)

3) He has truly grown from a baby into a little boy . . . from a chunky cheeked one year old in a diaper that could barely communicate to a tall and slender big boy underwear-wearing three year old that out of the blue says things like, "Mom, I'm famished. Can I have an apple?"

playdate

by photochick~ Punkin had his first real playdate since the move last week (yeah, a little overdue). The joy that comes with three year old innocence. Don't we wish life were still that easy. No thoughts of anything except having fun.

  Dress up . . the fireman and her helper.

Playdoh fun with Punkin's HUMUNGO playdoh set.

The HUMUNGO playdoh set was a Christmas gift from plannerchick and family.

Why does dirt, and playdoh, and anything else dirty attract like a magnet to a little boy's fingernails????

shout out to singerchick, the master cookie maker

by photochick~ I know I've probably said this before, and actually about cookies that were VERY similar, but if you're local and you've never had singerchick make personalized cookie bouquets for you, well, bless your heart! :-)

They are seriously THE coolest things ever and sooooo tasty. You may remember that another friend from out of town ordered a birthday cookie bouquet for me last year and singerchick came up with the idea to do the cookies in a basketball theme. So when the playoffs rolled around this year, I had to copy the idea for our Ladycats. I try to do a little something for them before every game and this was perfect!

She made a basketball and a jersey with each player's number. I packaged them together in an upside down cellophane bag and tied it up with ribbon and a pawprint name tag.

Teenagers were impressed. Need I say more?

 

   

And so was Punkin! She also sent along the cutest little box of baby boy themed cookies just for me (well, my family). I'd like to say I got a photo, but after packaging all those ladycat cookies, my help and myself really needed to eat one. The baby boy cookies bit the dust pretty quickly.

THANKS SO MUCH singerchick!!!! And I'm really sorry for not telling you sooner. Can we blame it on basketball and pregnancy brain? A lethal combination.

happy heart day!

by photochick~ Happy Valentine's Day from me and the punkin, and the little punkin too!. (I'd say from the hubby too, but that just seems wierd!)

dedicating "the babies"

by photochick~ I collectively call Planner and Babychick's babies "the babies" since they are "the babies" in our family right now. I forget everyone doesn't know who "the babies" are when I make a comment to someone random and they look at me like I'm crazy.

Soooo, I thought I would explain . . . here's a couple of photos of "the babies" at their dedication several weeks ago. Aren't they the cutest things ever?

 

Plannerchick's chicklet.

 

Babychick's chicklet.

fall festival

by photochick~ Several weeks ago we attended our first school fall festival since my husband and I were in high school there ourselves. A little different this time with the little one in tow. Some of the fun:

Pumpkin painting.

 

Gone fishing. (The boots weren't a fashion statement. It was nearly a literal monsoon outside!)

 

The big finger. (Always a bobcat fan!)

 

Looking for mom and dad's senior portrait. You see, we have this really cool brick room in the main hall where there is a photo of every graduate since the really olden days . . . . think yellowed black and whites. The bricks on the walls are all from the old main building before the recent remodel. It's really actually very cool. I'll have to take a better photo of the room one day. Look, he found dad!

sooooo creative

 Whether or not you dress up for Halloween, you have to check out how this family dressed up this year. Soooooo creative!

(I'd post the photo here, but since that's illegal and all, I guess I won't!)

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social chicklets' photo shoot

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