Introducing the Boy Child

I've been waiting forever it seems for Crew to start sitting up. At 8 months he's sitting up good and crawling like a maniac! So here are some of my favorite shots I got this weekend. To drool or not to drool? That is the question. I touched it up on some, but on others it was just too cute to leave it there.

Crew's first business profile photo! (LOL, we rolled on the floor over this one.)

"Oh, you're such a pushover!"

"Hey Babe, what's shaking?"

"You don't mind a little drool, right?"

"Did you hear ....?"

"Hey Babe! Can I get your number?"

The little guy sat on this chair for quite awhile, only because it had a sagging seat to hold him.

I worked on trying to get my 580II flash to fire off camera the day before and finally gave up. Because the light wasn't as good as I'd hoped, I used my 50 1.8 lens and didn't pay attention half way through and cranked it up to f/4. Well that was a mistake. I ended up with 3200 ISO. Oh well, at least we finally got some photos.

Easter Baby

It was a beautiful day to go to the park with friends and relatives. For some reason I assumed the (leafless) trees would provide shade and didn't bring sunscreen. Oh well.
Now that the kids have moved back, I didn't waste any time taking more pics.
Our sweet baby girl who turned one last week.

She learned very fast that the grass didn't feel good to the tender feet.  

So she stayed on the edge and yelled at it for several minutes. Oh how I wish someone had recorded it on their phone. It was hilarious.

Earlier she had carefully picked one blade and later put it in her mouth (of course).

It's Texture Tuesday at the Cafe Blog and I'm using Kim Klassen's texture Sonnet2.

All edits done in Lightroom4.

Baby Shoot

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It's my precious and only grand-baby!

We did a photo shoot last Friday and I have to say, a 7 month old is easier to photograph that a new-born. We had a blast! The house was a wreck. And 344 pictures later....(a little sample)

The sad part is we just found out they will be moving to Colorado Springs. The good news is Dad got a great job with a company he likes and will graduate is a couple weeks. (road trip!)

Your Last Best Laugh

The privilege is mine when it comes to taking photographs (professional style) of my baby grand-daughter. This past week, a slow Friday left me with the afternoon off, so I called Kaytie for an impromptu photo shoot. Many outfits, bows and hats were gathered in her arms and off they went to purchase a couple new bows on the way to my house. One of the little caps she popped on her head nearly had me rolling on the floor. I could barely get out that she looked like some foreign dignitary. I barely snapped 3 photos and the last one with Kaytie's hand attempting to remove it. I hope I didn't offend her but the child looked something like the Pope.

(More to come)