My first engagement session and I could not have asked for a more beautiful couple to shoot! Thanks for a great time I cannot wait for the wedding. I hope you love the pictures.
This is just a sneak peek as a render the rest of the images.
As the weekend approaches I find myself slightly unprepared and a little scattered. The week seemed to have been creeping by now all of the sudden we have a massive four day weekend planned...without Prince.
He has to work and sometimes this whole 24/7 thing wears on me...sometimes, ha! I'll give my kids credit, they're pretty sweet, it's just when I want them to be sweet, like around people who doubt me, they prove me wrong.
I have jitters because I am doing a family photo shoot this weekend and I get anxious. I have a thousand ideas bouncing around and I picked up an adorable light blue antique wooden chair for the kids to use (ten bucks on craigslist!). It's like a singer taking the stage or speaker about to present a topic I get literally sick until I take the first few photos. It's easy to photograph kids, I am secretly the kid whisperer and they always seem to fall into place or do the most adorable random things with out even being asked. Adults, however are harder to manuver and instead of just having fun or doing what they normally do with their children they are subconsiously wondering if their butt looks big or if I am doing it right. I know this because I used to be that way when I had my photo taken, then I let go and my photos had never turned out better. Trust your photographer, if they're good they'll take you at your best angle or do creative things that you absoluetly love... just let them (me).
I also am attempting my first ever engagement session this weekend up by my old hometown. They're a beautiful couple and I am excited and again nervous.
My ultimate photography challenge will hopefully someday being able to take great pictures of my parents without my Mom dictating the shoot, I actually dream about the locations and the angles. I am not sure why this dream is signifacnt but I sense an urgency... so here's hoping it't nothing major and that I can take some great memories for them soon!
As of today Riah has been diaper free for five days. Hooray! I knew the poop smearing was deeper than her just wanting to paint with poop! Along with this new progress has also brought forth language like " I'll do it!" or "Go Away, I pee".
The best part of this whole thing is that it's summer and she can literally lift and squat. She hates underwear, claims "too muches wedgie" (her exact words when we asked her why she won't wear them). I hope that as she grows she'll require a liking for them. The bonus is that she dumps it into the big potty, flushes and then washes her hands.. all while I sit casually sipping merlot on the couch, kidding, but you get the jist.
Grrr. For the fourth time this month when little miss Riah is suppose to be napping she will take off all of her clothes and pee on the bed! ???? Yeah, stumps me too. Well today she got naked ran to the bathroom and pooped on the potty. I was elated!
Thirty minutes later I hear, "oh no, mommy mad." So I went to investigate what I would be made over. Not only had she got naked again she peeded, pooped and smeared it around her beautiful white bed.
I just walked away, took five minutes washed her up and now am bleaching everything. My conclusion is that she that she wants to be potty trained. So I am not buying anymore diapers...I AM NOT BUYING ANYMORE DIAPERS. Even if I start to cry and wish them back, I cannot stop, she's been about half way trained for awhile now and I think has been waiting on me to help her through the last lag. So here we go.
The only time she'll be wearing a pull up is over underwear in the car and at night, cause there is no way she is ruining a $300.00 carseat.
Oh by the way this is Riah's new uniform:
For those interested I have started a private blog containing private things (go figure). To be included you will have to email me at chelseypaultebbs@gmail.com and then I will decide if now is a good time for you to be there, some I will decline for my own reasons. Once you email me I will send you the link and password.
Riah trots across our bedroom floor this morning to wake me up and after I tell her it's okay to get a banana (hoping to buy myself 10 more minutes of sleep) I notice that her diaper is up her butt on one side. Right as I notice this she reaches down and picks it saying: "I have big wedgie Momma!"
I laughed so hard, where does this child get this stuff? I have permanent wedgies so it must be from her father.
P.s. all the crazy comes from her father :)
Finally Riah and I get some photos together... unfortunately Prince isn't as camera savvy as I am but he's coming along. First lesson will have to be angles and how to minimize my fat face.
Thank you Auntie Carolyn for my new favorite toy! I have been playing with it while listening to classical music since 9 a.m.! I even skipped Elmo. My Mommy's happy because she can now clean the house while brother naps and I play contently. Something none of my extended family probably believes I do since I am also so busy when I visit!
Thanks,
Love Riah
Just for the record... little boys are sooo sweet! Here is Thaddaeus as a newborn and Thaddaeus today. Baby Giant, I cannot even imagine how big he'll be when he starts solids in a couple months. At three months he is already busting into his 6-12 month clothing. Maybe this is typical? With Riah being a preemie she wasn't in 6-12 until 9 or 10 month of age. He's not really chubby he's just solid and long.
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