BABE UPDATE

Now that those crazy holidays are over, I thought it would be a good time to document where my cute babes are at these days.

Ryder (or also lovingly known as #1): I love having conversations with him. I have never been so entertained than I am at his attempted efforts to conquer the English language and then use that knowledge to communicate with others. He loves to help and I love having an eager volunteer when I need something thrown away in the garbage can. As previously mentioned he just started primary and he also participates in a little preschool co-op. His interests include: peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, dragons/dinosaurs (particularly his dino jammies), rocking out to the guitar, running, and PUZZLES (I'd say this is the first thing I've seen him passionate about). I love you Ryder.


Ryder being silly modeling for me after I've asked him to look at the camera a bajillion times

 Doing puzzles on Christmas morning

 One day over Christmas break Ryder did every puzzle he owned in one sitting. So I took the opportunity to take some photos...:)



 I love him and love the idea, but I wish a) I'd known a little bit more about my camera when I took them b) All the stuff in the background drives me nutso! SO. I'm thinking we may have try this photo op one more time with a more aesthetically pleasing back-drop.

Penelope Rae (or, you guessed it, #2): Penelope has hit a couple of major milestones of late. As you know she is now the big numero uno. She also mastered walking, albeit a bit wobbly (think drunkin' sailor).  Thanks to a big brother she has even learned to run or sit down really fast when a large (brown-eyed) object approaches her at high speed. She also got her first hair cut (you know, a little mullet trim). When I think of how to describe her combination of charm and sass I come up with the word: SCAMPETTE (def. cute little girl scamp). Her interests include: moving, accessories, snuggle-housing (her own version of rough-housing), climbing stairs, daddy, eating whatever happens to be on the floor, Elmo and CHEESE (this is probably the first thing I've ever seen Penny be passionate about :). I love you Penny Rae.

 Miss Walk-a-doo, herself


 A few interactions with Bruce the Moose.
 
Cute girl and a really good (as in bad) example of what I believe they call noise in the photography world.

 The haircut!!! (along with a possibly blow-dryed-with-velco-rollers styled-do. )

And how this happened, I'll never know. She wandered into the bathroom. I told Ryder to go in and get her. He took these instructions very literally and he came out dragging her with a sock in her pants.

***At this point I have no excuses for the massive amounts of photos I'm about to post of Penny, other than we spend a good portion of our time waiting for Ryder to wake up from his nap taking photos. And I thought my mom might enjoy seeing them. They do however epitomize Penny***


 She moves a lot and therefore has to take a few 2-second breaks every once in awhile.

 Snuggle-housing Elmo.

 Love her. One of my favorite photos.

 On the move

A girl and her gold flats. Need I say more.  (Thank you aunt Lancy and Bethany!)

 :)

 Static hair and chapped cheeks = Winter. Could someone PLEASE get this girl some lotion on those cheeks. I mean, seriously, who is her mother!?

 Tender

One word:  Scampette. 

Wow, way to hang in there. Don't say I didn't warn you. As for the photography aspect. The lighting in these isn't great. And I'm still just using Picasa for minor editing. I figure, get the camera down, then add on editing. Also, I'm still working on getting moving objects, can you tell? Which is another reason Penny makes for great photography practice :)

7 comments:

  1. Such a great post! I love all the pictures. What kind of camera did you end up getting for Christmas?

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  2. So cute. I thought I was looking at you, in the picture of Penny under the baskets.

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  3. Thanks Jazzy! I love them and you.

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  4. I can't believe how good Ryder is at doing puzzles.

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  5. love love love all those pics! Its great to see them both grow up!

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  6. Anonymous12:13 PM

    Jazzy, what two beautiful and fun children you have! I'm so proud of you, honey.

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  7. Penny look so much like you especially the one by the dresser and she is smiling :)I freakin love your girly bean bags. You are quite the seamstress:) Love your cute kiddos :)

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