Family Photo Shoot

After shooting our annual Christmas family picture Sunday, I left the camera on the tripod and pulled aside each family member individually to shoot some mug shots. Ezra and Asa took a lot of these. The picture of Marlow and the iPod in the previous post came from this set. I uploaded the set to our Picasa Web Album - full size, original quality. So, Michelle, you can download print-quality versions from there...

Mugs

Can you say "Apple"?

I'm not sure whether to be concerned or proud... OK, actually, I'm just amused... Last night, after showing the kids a slideshow of the photo shoot we had done that afternoon, I closed my PowerBook. The white apple on the cover caught the eye of Marlow (my 2 year old daughter), and she started tracing it with her finger.

It is a parent's natural instinct to test their toddler's rapidly expanding vocabulary with questions like, "What's that?" So I did.

She shrugged. "I don't know."

Thinking surely she should be able to recognize a simple apple, I prodded, "Come on. You know what that is. Haven't you seen one of these before?"

And she gasped and beamed because she suddenly remembered what it was. "iPod!"

I laughed and said, "That's right! That's the same symbol that is on the iPod. And doesn't it look like an apple???"

"No," she shook her head... "iPod."



(BTW, we wouldn't even own an iPod if it weren't for Coptix purchasing them for all their employees a couple years ago. Thanks, Coptix!)

I've been meaning to post for a while now....

Eliot had his first birthday the beginning of October.






The kids playing outside the aquarium in all the little canals for the last time this summer. Katie, Mason and Grandma were visiting and came too, they just don't happen to be in this picture.



Marlow and Mason playing in the sandbox.


Halloween. Marlow the princess, Ezra as Spiderman, Asa as a Knight and Eliot the puppy.


Marlow wanted me to take a picture of her doll. I told her to smile and show her teeth. This is the doll the pink glasses in the follow picture belong to.



She likes to do whatever her big brothers do so here she is working on her homework.


You can't have too many cute pictures of Eliot, right?



We took a camping trip. We hadn't been camping in two years...it is amazing how much work it is to go somewhere and sleep outside for a night with a bunch of little kids. I think next time we will try for two nights to really make it worth our while.


We were right on the water and the kids spent a large amount of time throwing rocks in the water and feeding the ducks anytime they would come around.



Not as cute as the kids but these are six books I made on commission for a friend. I bound pages that she had printed of a family reunion, and in return she bought me an awesome double jogger stroller.