day sixteen

Kids are hard to photograph. Given. Want to know what's impossible? Taking a picture of the tower an almost 1 year old builds from blocks before she smacks it to the ground. Here are all my feeble attempts.

First we have: Oops, the flash came on.


Next: Nice Tower, no baby in picture.


And: Baby, check! Blocks, check! Tower, check! Focus? hmmm


So: Baby, blocks... tower. Sorta, if you hold it, it could be a tower!


Then: *smack* Doooooown it goooooes.


Well: It *was* a tower, then the smacker came along.


Er: Again with the FOCUS.


Attempt 8?: Way too late. New strategy too. Crawl on it!


Um: In focus anyway. No blocks, tower OR baby!


Sigh: I am really glad Briar built like 40 towers right in front of me. And I finally sort of got one.

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day ten

We have a climber. We are in trouble when she grows about 2 inches.

day nine

Little Miss Serious has a big serious, seriously.

day eight

day seven

I notice a pattern in the type of toys Briar likes. See it?

day six

My crazy girl. She's SO hard to photograph. Won't. Stay. Still.

day five

My mom got me these for our seventh anniversary. So here is my token picture of a flower! :p

day four

The girls each got one of these for Christmas, however this is the lone survivor. Ember's lasted less than a week. Not well made toys.

As an update: This one is now broken too. And no, the girls are not rough on toys.

day three

Come back!!! Come Back!!!!

(and wow... do I ever need to clean that door!)

day two

Ember took this paper off my desk that I had printed to use at work and she wrote a note to one of her friends in pre-K.


She was pretty pleased with herself.

day one

Let's start this year with some water. This was the girls' first bath together. The splashing got a bit crazy. Especially from Briar.