Cathy the Librarian

Jack, Leila and I went for a walk through our neighborhood and checked out a couple of the playgrounds in the area.

One of the playgrounds we went to was one of those old wooden ones and reminded me of the one that was near my house that we always played at when we were kids. The one from my childhood was much bigger. It was really awesome, but about ten years ago they tore it down. 🙁

Leila, as usual, was sleeping the whole time, but as soon as we got home she woke up and started crying. Oh well, at least she looked cute at the time.

Jack and his books… (Curious George if you’d like to know)

And Leila and all her little bits and pieces… I love little baby fingers and toes.

But I do not like when babies cannot contain themselves.

YUCKERS!

This is what happens when you stuff a baby full of formula.

And this is what happens when you stuff a four year old with brownies before bedtime.

Look and learn people. Formula good. Brownies bad.

Coming up with fascinating ways to photograph my children is already becoming difficult, but I’ll still try. As they get older I’m sure they’ll supply an endless amount of photo moments, but until then I’ll make stuff up.

The first one’s Jack on his banana phone and the rest are proof that at one point he loved his sister.

I’m bummed because I like these last two, but they focused on Leila’s feet and not their faces. Jack and Leila move so much that I needed to take the photos quickly, but obviously this was a little too quickly.

We went to Fairport Canal Days today and we did a ton of walking… at least it felt that way. If I didn’t have family to help corral Jack, I don’t know what I would have done. Anyway, since I was carrying Leila in her sack, I really couldn’t take pictures, and by the time we came home and ate dinner, we were all completely out (the beer didn’t hurt either). Tonight I give you sleeping places! These photos aren’t nearly as good as some of the other ones because I just used the point and shoot because it was faster than the SLR (sorry Jeff). BTW, the blanket surrounding Leila isn’t actually where she sleeps. I know better than to put blankets on her bed. We actually have something that sits in the middle of the bed that she sleeps in… for now. I can’t wait to have more space in the bed again. Of course, I also can’t wait until she sleeps through the night.

A couple things of note about the Jack pictures:
1) The smallest crocodile was a big brother gift from one of my lovely co-workers. He calls that one “Martin Toody”. Please don’t ask me why. I have no idea what goes on in the mind of a four year old boy. I think the big long one’s name is Frank, but I could be mistaken. My husband would know.
2) Yes, that purple is the color of his room. His favorite color is purple and we let him choose what color he wanted.
That’s my son for you. Two of his favorite things are purple and crocodiles. Who am I to judge?

I spent a bit of time today with Leila just watching her and taking pictures. The lighting was nice and she kept her eyes on me for a while, so it was really hard to chose just a couple (obviously). Jeff will no doubt tease me for using so many, but pish posh. There are a couple that I took using a fish eye, witch should be fairly obvious. 🙂

These Jack pictures were all taken with the fisheye lens. In the second photo, Jeff thinks that Jack looks like he’s had one too many drinks.

I can’t wait until Leila’s a bit less of a lump. An adorable lump, but a lump none the less.

Jack, on the other hand, is a blast. 🙂

You’d think that by the pictures all Leila does is sleep. However, according to the book Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for Baby? by Barney Saltzberg, all they do is sleep, drink, pee, poop and cry. He did forget that they also puke when they try and eat too much and they want to be held constantly. Anyway, looking at these photos, you’d think that Leila sleeps all the time, but you’d be mistaken.

See what I mean?

Jack looks good in front of green…

Jeff hates feet, but oh well. Baby feet are adorable and they’re only little for so long. I was only going to pick two (one of each kid) for each day, but I’ve already decide to nix that idea. I found a couple that I really liked, so there you go.

Here are a couple others that I liked.

I have a couple of Jack in the boppy pillow, so I thought I would take some of Leila in the boppy.

Jack is such a clown, I thought this was a perfect one to start with. 🙂