Hmmm...

Wonder what she's doing...

Hello...

I haven't blogged much lately. I haven't really taken many photos. Mostly self portraits for a group on Flickr. But here's a pretty sunflower I captured a couple months ago...

Having Fun in Photoshop!

Bright and Sunshiny

Good morning!

Little Hottie

The other day Emily took a reeeeealllly long nap. I tried lots of things to get her to wake up, but she just wouldn't stay awake. I tried stripping her and I think it put her in a deeper sleep! It was kinda hot in the house, so I think her little body just couldn't take all the heat.

Yick and Uck!

Mom and Dad have spiders in their house! Mom was showing me the Brown Recluse ones she'd collected and this is what my toes did:
And I got goosebumps. And my goosebumps got goosebumps. Pray for me while I'm here...

PIGGIES!!!

I decided to put piggies in Emily's hair today. I've been itching to do it but I didn't figure she'd keep them in. She hates it when anything is in her hair/on her head and pulls barrettes out as soon as they go in. So, I put on Blue's Clues, gave her some mini M&Ms and put little clips in her hair and omigosh it's so freakin' CUTE!!!

I want to nibble the back of her neck. At this point, they're still in her hair (it's been almost fifteen minutes!) and one is pointing up and one is pointing down, but they're still in. She hasn't even figured out that they're in her hair.

She Tinkled!

On the potty! For the first time ever! My little girl is growing up! *sigh*

I put her on the training seat before her bath and she tinkled. She was pretty proud about it, but I doubt she knew why we were clapping and cheering her on.

ABC's of Me!

A - Attached or Single: attached! For almost five years!

B - Best Friend: I have two: my sister and my mom. Hands down.

C - Cake or Pie: it depends... I guess I'll go with cake because I love frosting. I eat the cake part first and save the frosting for last!

D - Drink of Choice: Diet Dr. Pepper.

E - Essential Items: my camera.

F - Favorite Color: blue. Especially the blue in Emily's eyes.

G - Gummi Bears or Worms: Bears. You can bite their heads off.

H - Hometown: Paris, Texas. Home is where your parents are. Right?

I – Indulgence(s): anything for Emily.

J - January or July: July. I don't like being cold. Except when it's hot.

K - Kids: the one and only Emily!

L - Life is incomplete without: laughter, love, faith

M - Marriage Date: the end of October, five years ago!

N - Number of Siblings: three brothers, one sister.

O - Oranges or Apples: oranges. No, apples. Both.

P - Phobias/Fears: spiders.

Q - Favorite Quote: "If it is to be it is up to me."

R – Restaurants: Zio's, Cheddars.

S - Season: spring, then fall.

T- Tag Three: whoever hasn’t done one of these ever or lately.

U - Unknown Fact About Me: I can juggle.

V - Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animals: I'm a vegetarian unless I ate meat.

W - Worst Habit: biting my nails and drinking caffeine.

X - X-rays or Ultrasounds: either, unless I'm getting an OB ultrasound, then I pick ultrasound.

Y - Your Favorite Foods: homemade pizza, cous cous, seafood

Z- Zodiac: Taurus.

Radio Star!

Well, not really. I got a great opportunity to take photos at an AM radio station on Sunday. I was given the phone number of this guy who works for 660AM. One of Kelly's friends who I met the night before at a girls night in recommended me to this guy for this photo shoot (thank you, Paige!). The radio guy, Winston, says he's interviewing the founder of Which Wich and he needs a photographer. I was able to meet Jeff Sinelli and take a quick photo before he had to jet. Then I begin acting like I had never been to a radio station before (which I hadn't) and I started snapping photos of various radio things, like this lit "on the air" sign. It was so cool.
Then I took a photo of a thing with lots of buttons and lights. I have no idea what this is, but it's cool.

Here is Jeff Sinelli (left) with Winston.

I was able to get a few shots of Winston at the mic, too. Fun times!

He wants to use me in the future, which sounds like fun! The station has a recording studio in Lewsville where bands go to record their music, and he said he'd like for me to go out there and take photos of them in action. It's very exciting! Also, it turns out Winston helps people get started in their businesses, so it looks like things are starting to fall into place for my photography business. I didn't get paid, but I will get an ad on the radio and credit for the photos on his website. So, I'm excited. I may even be on his show.

Dirt = Fun!

I took her outside to get some cute photos of her in her pretty dress, and what did she do? She played in the dirt. I swear, I don't know where she gets these tendencies. (She has bruises on her legs, too. Reminds me of me...)

She has a new favorite word: "bodiggabodiggabodigga" I'm not sure what it means, but it's fun to say. Go ahead, say it out loud. You know you want to. It sounds like this: Bo-Dig-Uh. Bodigga. Now say it fast. Now say it lots of times fast. See, FUN, right? That's the word she was saying in that second photo.

Lookit!

Lookit!
Originally uploaded by pixels & blog dreams

I added a little logo to my photography. It's just a test right now, just to see how it looks, and to prevent people from stealing my freakin' awesome photos of my super adorable daughter.

Oh, and I'm beginning to feel better. I'm still a little hoarse, and I have a stupid cough, but I feel so much better than I did last week.

(I used Flickr to post to my blog. I'm not sure I like it. I'll play around with it some. I'd like the photo to be bigger, for your viewing pleasure...)

Still Sick...

But look at this:

Sorry...

...I haven't blogged. I'm sick. I've got a head cold. My throat hurts and my ears are clogged and I'm dizzified. I'm not really feeling like blogging. But, you can look at this if you'd like:
Dang, she's cute.

Cloth Diapers

Emily has a diaper rash, and the other night it had gotten pretty bad. I thought that maybe she needed bigger diapers so she could have more "breathing room" down south. I sent Rob to the store to get diapers in the next size up, and while we waited for him to come home, I put a cloth diaper on Em. I've never put a cloth diaper on a baby before. I had no clue what to do. This is how it ended up looking:

Talk about junk in the trunk!

My Little Girl

...is getting so big.

Near Spider Attack!

Whew! Almost got eaten alive by this spider! I coulda died, or peed my pants. More likely I would have peed my pants, but still...

He was probably the size of the diamond on my wedding ring. So it was freakin' huge!!! Well, not really. He was tiny. I didn't notice the long hairs on his legs until I looked at the photo in Photoshop. Yick. And uck. I have goosebumps. Gotta go.

Fluke (n)

1. an accidental advantage; stroke of good luck.
2. an accident or chance happening.
3. an accidentally successful stroke, as in billiards.

It was a fluke that Emily slept through the night, night before last. Dang it.

Little Miss Sunshine

After a good night's sleep, Emily woke up all grins this morning.

Don't Move a Muscle

Don't say a word. Leave the TV off for just a bit longer.

These are things I'm telling myself this morning. Because Emily is still asleep! It's nearly 8:30. She slept the whole night. The.whole.night! I'm so excited because it means I slept, too! Not the whole night because she did make a noise and I went and checked on her and she was fine but then I couldn't go back to sleep but eventually I did. Anyway, she's still breathing, I checked. Last night was the first night ever that she went to bed without nursing! I have mixed feelings about this because it's such a special bonding time we have, but then I think about what a big girl she is and she doesn't need my milk anymore. Oh, I just got sad again. But, now I'm happy again because SHE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT!