finding a balance

okay so i can now say that the icky oink! oink! bug is out of my house. steve has finally gotten rid of his 99 degree fever. which is nice, there is only the lingering cough that will be here until the weather hits warm again (and i know that is a relative term seeing as i now think that 60 degrees is chilly and cold).

Im sitting here listening to children's music, kailee loves to come in here on the computer and play games while listening to her music (there is usually a little dancing around too) crazy girl. and she has more music on the computer than i do right now ... so need to change that

I still don't feel like I have a balance going on. it seems that as soon and I think i have everything on task and all. I realize that I have forgotten something, like vacuuming the house, or doing laundry, good thing we have ALOT of towels or i would be in a load of trouble.

oh well i am trying to make a point of taking pictures again, and especially of logan, i dont think i have enough pictures of him. besides the point that kailee is a spotlight stealer, i just dont have the countless similar photos of logan that i have of kailee at this age. so im working on it ... maybe i can go for a picture a day for this up coming week, and then i can scrap it.

okay well im ranting here, but it's helping me get my thoughts out on to something i can look back on and see if (no wait i should say) that i have improved. at least im posting some new pictures of logan :)

he's five months old now, he's getting so big. he's a huge eater and loves all the veggies ... or i keep telling him he does :) not so much a fan of green beans yet and he finally decided that he likes the carrots. and cereal he eats up all the time, and likes it even better with applesauce or banana's in it. so here he is playing on a saucer-ize thing ... although not so sure how long it will last at the house, its a pain to take his shoes off to put him in the thing, and he can only stay in it so long with out his shoes, so its really just a time consuming devise that i think toys on the floor will do much more for him. but we had to try this out all the same.

oh and i think i've finally figured out how to take pictures with my 50mm lens with out the flash and inside .... its called the action/sports mode. it will cycle the pictures pretty fast and thus not all of them are blurry, lots of blurry shots to sort through but i got a few of focus pictures out of it. now to just isolate where my camera is getting its focus point and i might do better ... oh wait that's just turning off auto focus, dang it! i should have thought of that eailer ... oh well at least i know why i talk on blogger here :)

the night before trick or treat

so kailee wasn't letting me take pictures on halloween night, she was busy playing across the street before and well i lost her when i asked if she wanted to go out trick or treating ... no pictures mom is what she told me ( i think im going to schedule a dusk photo shoot once everyone is over being sick with little minney mouse this up comming week)

so here the pictures from the night befores trunk or treat

it was a tad but chilli outside so she wearing her jacket, its disney but i dont think it screams minney though ???? cinerealla??? yes very cinderella


the only times she'd look at me she was making funny faces
logan didn't go, he stayed home all nice and warm with his daddy (who isn't a real big fan of the holiday, but sure does like all the candy kailee brings home)

4months and a external flash

Okay for starters, lets see ... logan is 4 months old (i'm a little late with posting that picture :)) and i had the perfect opportunity to play with my speed-light flash last night. its pretty cool.

okay so all the pictures are taken with my 50mm f/1.4 lens and its actually certifiably dark outside. the room has a pretty bright lamp in it, but still with out the flash the pictures are pretty yellow and crappy. so here are the pictures straight out of camera with flash pointed up at the celling and a diffuser on it.

logan keeps making funny faces at me when ever i pull the camera out to take pictures of him
all the while his big sister here is inching her way in trying to steal the lime light and the shot.
and i turned off the flash to take a picture just to see what it would look like otherwise (this one was taking in sequence of the one above with just logan.

i think i like the flash ...... :)

pumpkins once again

yet another year at bates nut farm and picking or better yet searching for the great pumpkin, kailee led us on a search in the "big mac's" with the help of her trusty side kicks Daddy and now introducing logan. kailee actually walked by all the littler pumpkins to find a "gianormus" one ... her words.

dancing along the way in her princess crown that she got daddy to buy for her. stopping along the way to play a pumpkin drum or two...

then to begrundingly pose for a picture for mom next to a corn stalk ...
make goofy faces and sit on some other pumpkins and let mommy take some pictures then ...
and finally pose for a almost family shot with the great pumpkin (daddy took this one) ...
and finally let daddy carry away the 60 lbs pumpkin this year.

i'll post hay ride tractor pictures later ... these are the fun ones :)

llama food ....

so this picture has a really cool story behind it, and i can't use it other then here. the camera took it as 4x6 @ 72 dpi. i really want to cry.

okay so the story .....

a few weeks ago while at the zoo, kailee and her friend aurora here got to feed the camels. pretty cool little interaction thing if you ask me. well kailee came home all excited over feeding the llama (its a camel, but im not telling her that) celery which she eats. and now requests "llama food" for snack our llama food includes carrots, celery, mushrooms, sweet peppers, what ever veggies we have that taste good raw. she all about eating her llama food how can any mom complain, although she does like it with the ranch dressing. she pulls it out of the fridge and everything.

im just really bummed that the picture is unusable! oh and i keep going back to the zoo and visiting the camels to see if she can feed them AGAIN ... so far 4 trips and no luck, but the passes are good for a year, just wish they would post a schedule so i could plan a re-take.

9.23.02

i took some pictures today, just some of the everyday kind

kailee got her new pumpkin picking shirt, and it was actually not from the baby section. she fits XS in the big girl section of target. we just didn't think that this hello kitty shirt would make her look like a teenager. its got that tight fit that is so popular these days and with her boot cut dark wash denim she doesn't look that 3 years that she really is. I sent this picture to her dad and he told her to stop growing up, she responded with i have to daddy. she's not the baby anymore she really is turning into a little girl ... she says she's a little girl now, not a big girl but a little one.
and here is my baby :) he's in his wombat pose. with his feet high up over his head. he sleeps like this too. its too funny. his daddy started calling him a wombat right after he was born and now he really does sleep like a wombat, i have a picture from the zoo of their wombat and he's snoozing on his back with all his little feet up.

new shoes ... and some pictures

so i finally took some pictures of logan's new shoes .... there so much fun, attached to this narly looking bar. his feet are at a constant 45 degree angle. he gets to take them off for baths and of course sock changes ... we're big on cool socks and the never ending search, i found some pretty cool sesame street ones where they're the color of the elmo, cookie monster, and oscar with their faces on the top sides. but no footie sleepers :(

big sister had to be part of the picture taking ...

just love the surprised look, even though this was one of the last pictures in the shoot

and just trying to get that smile, i get it all the time when im changing his diaper ... mr clean pants here doesn't like dirty diapers AT ALL and i seem to be changing them all the time. just like his sister lol

the lighting was natual almost sun set with a lamp on. and its seemed to just ask for warm tones. but the pictures are dark. then i was playing with a lomo action as well as a chocolate b&w and love this look ... the lomo only works on some pictures though