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As I mentioned below, a fellow photographer friend, Keri Doolittle, of Keri Doolittle Photography was in town visiting family and was nice enough to take some time to take family pictures of us. (if you are in Arizona and need a great photographer - contact her!!!). She just used my camera and I did the editing on them - so if that sucks, it is totally my fault! :)
- His sense of humor. He is so funny.
- That he loves to have "dance party" with me in the evenings.
- That he told me I was his best friend the other night. Normally daddy is. I am going to win him over one of these days!
- How he whines and whines about not wanting/needing a nap and then proceeds to sleep for about 3 hours everyday still.
- How when he is helping daddy, and Trevor says something to me, Teagun will repeat the exact same thing to me right on the tail of Trevor. He is Trevor's little "mini-me".
- How he squeals back at Emery when she starts squealing and laughs and laughs about it.
- How he differentiates his grandmas by calling one grandma "Grandma Crazy-Hair" (yes, she knows this!) :)
- That he still has to have his milk first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening and it still has to be warmed up.
- How he calls the bank the "penny" bank. "Are we going to the penny bank today, mom?"
- That he still asks to sit and snuggle a lot of evenings before bed still. I'm sure that isn't going to last much longer!
And a picture of him not looking at the camera, of course! This picture was taken by a fellow photographer friend, Keri Doolittle. She took some family pictures of us the other night, which I will be sharing soon!
- Her big, beautiful blue eyes.
- How she S Q U E A L S at the top of her lungs...and such a girlie squeal too!
- That she is a momma's girl.
- That she is a zerbert blowing fool (except when she blows her food all over my clean shirt!)
- That she loves to eat everything and sweet things too - taking after her mommy!
- How she thinks Teagun is just the funniest thing alive.
- How she will sit there and twirl both of her feet in circles. She has done this pretty much since day one and I just love it! And it is so cute how they start going even faster when she gets excited.
- That she is sleeping about 8 hours at night now (thank goodness!).
- That she keeps me on my toes and can't leave her for a second because she will be into something she isn't supposed to be - like taking a big fistful of dirt and trying to eat it (ok, this probably is more annoying than anything, but it does keep me going nonetheless!)
- Her easy-going nature...she always have this serious look on her face like she is just taking everything in.
{Sidenote: she just pulled herself up to standing today. Yikes - I have a feeling she is going to be walking (running) around way sooner than Teagun did!)}
Emery is 8 months old already (well tomorrow!). My 8-month old beauty!
I'm on a color-kick lately so thought I would throw a black and white one out there for the fun of it!
Teagun's turn! Probably won't be as long as Emery's since he isn't doing so many new things in short amounts of time now, but still wanted to do a post dedicated to him.
- Teagun is going through a "I hate the camera" phase...again. It is an on-and-off again love for him. Ok, it rarely is ever "on", but he definitely cooperates sometimes for me. He will not have any of that lately.
- He will probably kill me for posting this in public later on in life, but it cracked me up, so thought I would share. He "nursed" his Boo Bear last week. I was feeding Emery and he came up next to us, lift his shirt, and proceeded to feed his bear.
- His new phrase is "Oh my gosh!" and says it with such enthusiasm no matter what it is. "OH MY GOSH, Mom, look at that mixer!"
- He remembers everything now. Definitely have to really think about what I am "promising" him now in our discussions!
- He LOVES to spend the night at his grandparents. He just stayed the weekend with my parents and cried and cried when they brought him back home. Made me sad!
- His imagination has just exploded! He is always telling us these funny and crazy stories. Just amazes me sometimes.
- Anytime he sees a bunch of trees, he says it is the "wilderness" (no matter if it is in the city of not) and there might be tigers in there. We must be careful! :)
Ok, I realized I need to do these more often with him because he says funny things or does something funny all the time, but I have the memory, so need to write about it write away or I forget about it.
Anyway, this is what I get when I try to take a picture of him lately. Absolutely NO eye contact and then runs away. ALL. THE. TIME. Booooo!!!
While at the river last weekend, I had the opportunity to take some pictures of Kai and Kaylee. They are both just so cute! Kaylee and Teagun are only 6 weeks apart and I think we might have to have an arranged marriage with them - cute little blonde-heads, you know they would make the cutest couple! :)
My Kids and I
Playing catch-up! These snapshots were all just taken with my p&s camera.
Two pictures taken one right after the other - do you see that look in his eyes in that first picture??? You can just see the wheels spinning...lol.
Our friends, Tracy and Ryan, invited us up to their river cabin this weekend to hang out and go boating. Teagun LOVED it to say the least. He had so much fun playing with Kai and Kaylee, swimming, and tubing for the first time. They even talked me into wakeboarding and I finally got up for the first time! But then totally face-planted shortly after. Now I feel like I am suffering from some serious whip-lash...I am too old for that apparently! :)
Trevor and the kids got me a new point-and-shoot camera for my birthday a couple weeks ago (30 - yikes!) that is soooo tiny and I can just put it in my purse or pocket for these kind of circumstances. I am in love with it though. I just had it in my pocket, took it out, and took some pictures while holding Emery. So much easier than my big camera! So these were all taken with me "new" camera.
She loves her cheese puffs!
Thought I would do a post about what new things Emery has been up to. I want to try to do this for both kids more often.
* She likes to take a mouthful of food and then blow a big zerbert (Ok, I have no idea how to actually spell that?!?!) so it goes all over me. Thinks that is pretty funny as a matter of fact. Me, not so much!
* She can push herself into sitting position. Has been doing this the past couple of weeks.
* Started CRAWLING yesterday! Yikes! Teagun didn't start crawling until 8.5 months, so I was hoping to have another month before she did!
* Still no teeth and no sign of them really. Teagun's always popped up on us unexpectantly too though, so maybe soon.
* Is finally starting to sleep better. Still has not slept through the whole night yet (well, she is going anywhere between 6-8 hours at night, but she goes to bed at 7pm, so even if she sleeps 8 hours she is getting up at 3am still. But she is good about just eating and then going right back to sleep until around 7:30am).
* Loves, I main really loves, to eat. Puffs, cut-up bananas, crackers, spaghetti noodles, bread - you name it, she will eat it (along with all her baby food - haven't found anything she doesn't like yet). And she is actually really good at self-feeding. Seemed like it took Teagun forever to figure that out.
* Would live outside if we allowed it. Anytime she is being grouchy, I just have to take her outside and she is perfectly happy. She also loves the pool too - the cold water does not phase her at all.
* Still nursing, but I think she is just tolerating it now for my sake! My supply has gone down soooo much the past few weeks that we are now supplementing formula quite a bit so she isn't starving. I should probably just give it up, but I am having a hard time...probably because I know she is my last and I am not ready for my baby to "grow up" just yet! :)
* Much to my dismay, she doesn't like shoes. She will kick and pull at them until they come off. Teagun wore shoes from day one and I never left the house without shoes on him and he never had any problems wearing them. Emery, however, never has shoes on. Guess we are saving some money there at least! Hopefully she changes her mind about shoes here soon because I was so excited to have a girl and get all the cute girl shoes they have!
Apparently I didn't read the fine print well enough, but Emery has been disqualified from the Parents Cover Model Contest. I received this email this morning:
We regret to inform you that your child does not qualify as a semi-finalist in the Parents Magazine contest. Per the eligibility section of the official contest rules, children must be at least six (6) months old and not more than six (6) years old as of May 7, 2008. Given the birth date you provided, your child was not at least six (6) months old as of May 7, 2008.
So she missed it by 2 weeks! I didn't turn in the pictures until after May 24th so she was 6 months old when I turned them in! Bummer! Just wish I would have received this email before I stressed about taking the five new pictures they requested. :(
I've had a few people asking me about the 5 new pictures of Emery that I have to submit, so I thought I would share the ones I did end up submitting. They weren't due until July 15th, but I think Trevor might have strangled me (and Emery too if she could) if I just didn't get it done and out of the way! :)
I had my very first Portrait Party this weekend and I feel it was very successful! Despite the cool temperature and very windy conditions, I think we got some good shots and had a great time! Thank you all so much for having me come to the lake to photograph your families - it was so much fun! Here is a little sneak peak.
I subscribe to Parents Magazine and a couple months ago I noticed they were having a "cover model" contest. I put the magazine aside, got busy, and forgot about it. Then my friend, Monica, emailed me urging me to enter. So I upload some pictures of Emery that I had recently taken. Done. Forgot about it. Then this past Wednesday night I receive a call, "May I speak to Emery's mother please?" Ok, weird! Is my daughter in trouble already?? :) It was Parents Magazine telling us that she was a semi-finalist! They narrowed it down to 20 semi-finalist (and there were over a million pictures entered!). They told me they would be emailing me that evening and I would need to answer a couple questions and submit five more pictures by July 15th. They will then narrow it down to 5 finalist who will get to fly to New York City for a photoshoot and a chance to be on the cover of the magazine! I have no idea if we have a chance or not, but I am just so thrilled she is a semi-finalist! I think she is pretty darn cute, but I am a biased mother and all! :) Even if we don't win a trip to New York we will have a chance to win an ipod nano (woo-hoo!). They will be putting all semi-finalists pictures on their website and everyone will be able to vote for their favorite. So when the voting starts for that I will let you all know! But now the pressure of actually getting five pictures to submit that I just love is turning out to be a lot harder than I thought! I just like to take pictures of her for fun and now I feel like there is pressure! Oh well...I just need to relax and let her be herself. The pictures taken for the first round were not specifically taken for a contest afterall. Anyway, I thought I would share the five pictures I submitted. I have no idea if one was the "winner" or if they take them all into consideration, but here they are. And if we hear any additional news, I will be sure to let you know!
Details: Thursday, July 17th. About 5 local and regional photographers are getting together to shoot anyone who is interested in “Trashing their Wedding Dress”.
Where: Coeur d' Alene, ID
Time: 6 - 9 PM
Who: If you are interested in putting back on that wedding dress to take some pics, please email me at jaidean@jaideanbakerphotography.com for further details. WARNING: Your dress might get a bit dirty and maybe even wet. These make for GREAT anniversary gifts! We have a limited amount of spots, so it is first come, first serve.
(Picture courtesy of Keri Doolittle of Keri Doolittle Photography)
