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I'm Jessica, wife, mom and photographer. This is my personal blog where I'll talk about my life, my children, photography, and my upcoming journey of being a surrogate mother. I'm a little scatterbrained when it comes to writing so hopefully I wont confuse everyone who's reading!

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Favorite Photo of the Week

Favorite Photo of the Week
Grandpa Paul's sweet tea. No one makes it quite like he does. One of the many reasons I look forward to Sunday dinners at my grandparents house<3
Showing posts with label Abigail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abigail. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Never...

wake a sleeping baby.

For about a month, I think just after we came back from Disneyland, Abigail broke out with this insane new sleeping schedule. Wake up at noon, go to sleep at 8pm, wake up at midnight, go to sleep at 5am. I called it midnight madness. I'm hoping with all of my hoping abilities, that's she's finally back to a normal schedule. 

I.was.exhausted. 

And now I'm stuck with a funky sleep schedule! She's doing the normal 9pm bed time, 9am wake up (no naps, I'm scared of naps right now!) so that's amazing! The night before last she fell asleep in my bed. Even though she's no longer a baby, I still didn't want to wake her and move her to her bed in fear that she would wake up and the midnight madness would start all over again!


Maybe it was a random growth spurt. My kids seem to lose their appetite and sleep weird schedules when they're growing. It could very well explain her going from a 3T in the winter, to having to buy her 5T's for Spring/Summer! 

Speaking of spring, we're actually having a real spring this year! Usually by mid March or April, it's full on hot, 90+. It's been absolutely beautiful here lately. My dream weather! Which means lots of outdoor playtime for the kids to wiggle out all of their pent up winter energy. 

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Today I thought I attempt to get some photos of our big dog, Cee Cee. I'm always chasing the cats to get their big round eyes, love them<3 But I'm never able to keep up with the mutts to get something good. Or... I just suck at pet photography! Haha!



Lesson for today? Don't hold the dog treat over the camera. Dogs are not afraid to eat cameras. Almost had a big hairy wet dog nose smear my lens *panic*!

Saturday, February 5, 2011

the Joy of LOVE | Day 4

{the Joy of LOVE | Day 4: What they wear.

I thought over and over about what I wanted to do with today's challenge, and nothing really worked out right. So, I told the kids it was DRESS UP DAY! "Go to your rooms and pick out what you want to wear today and I'll help you get dressed." My exact words... Bradley ran out with jean, a camo button up, and his Batman cape. He wanted to be Army Batman today! What else would Abigail want to be? No one would ever guess she would want to be a Princess... not that girl. She couldn't reach her dress, but she had a specific one picked out. She hadn't worn it yet. Mostly because we haven't had anywhere to wear it, and it's off white! I have the messiest girl ever. Looking at that dress I could think of 1001 ways she could get it dirty. But, I said what I said, and I had to stick to it. 

Kids dressed and out the door, we had a little adventure photo shoot today. Went to a downtown park and had a little fun!

These are my two (although I'm sure it's only suppose to be one!) photos for day 4.



I have a busy weekend ahead of me, but I'll add some from the rest from today soon<3