Kid Photo ThreadFollow

As September quickly approaches, I think it's time to see how the kiddies of our forum denizens have enjoyed their summer. If you don't have kids, feel free to post pics of some other summer fun. (Just not your boobs, Catwho)

Anywhoooo...here are my two....

Mia channels Bowie at the Medicine Hat Fair.

Jack thinks rides are cool.

Noah's been playing football and getting pretty good at it, too.

Just posted this one in the OOT:



Zoe likes swimming. I'll try to find one of Aedyn in a bit.

Got run over but nothing broken, just some road rash.


My monkey

While we were in Michigan vacationing after my brothers wedding, we went to the studio where I had my senior portraits taken eons ago to get 1 year portraits made of Tristan. He had to do them as candids of Tristan playing because Tristan is too much of an on-the-go kid to sit still for a pose and gets quite upset if you try to make him sit still, but nonetheless a few of the shots came out absolutely gorgeous. (I have tried to edit out the watermark where I could, this is basically just a screencap of the website where the digital proofs are stored, since that site requires a password I'm not comfortable giving out.

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ETA: DSD how on earth do you get Ashe to wear sunglasses. Tristan won't let me put anything on his face and head, so no sunglasses, no hats. Since I'm very very white and quite cautious about the sun, it's stressing me right the hell out.


Edited, Aug 22nd 2008 7:05am by Ambrya

Amazon.com...cause she's tall like a....wait for it...oh nevermind.

Nexa, or Sarah, whatever, I mean why even bother right?

I feel a lil left out . . . I'm allergic to the sun, so I spent about as much time outdoors this summer as I do in December.

Why? I specifically mentioned your girls.

Hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa!

Oh yes. He's smarter than me and he knows it. We're seeing the first hints of tantrum-throwing right on schedule. It's not unusual for him to start to try to hit when denied something, so we're having to deal with that, though I think at least part of that is due to his frustration at not being able to express his frustration another way.

However, his language development is really starting to pick up and hopefully that will change soon. I'm kinda amused by the fact that sometimes his word for something has nothing to do with what WE call that something. For example, since he was about 9 months old, I've called nursing "num nums" thinking it would be an easy word for him to master so that he can request nursing. I never really used the words "boob" or "boobie" with him, and he rarely gets bottles, and when he does, we usually say "water bottle" or "milk bottle" and not just "bottle." A cup with a straw or without has always been "cup." So there's been very little "B" sound associated with nursing or with drinking in general.

However, last week while we were on vacation, we settled in to nurse. He pointed right at my nipple and said proudly "Ba ba!" I've since learned that anything to drink--a cup with a straw, a sippy cup, a bottle and nursing--is called "ba ba." The good news is, he can now request nursing in some way that doesn't involve pulling on my shirt or climbing into my lap and trying to lay down across it. The bad news is, now when I try to correct him and call it "num nums" he ARGUES with me. So our conversation goes something like this:

"Ba ba?"
"Sure, you can have num-nums"
"Ba ba!"
"No, those are num-nums"
"BA BA!!!"

I suspect he'll end up winning this one, grrr.

I have to say, Xavier has the most amazing dimple in his smile, and Ashe looks so SERIOUS he's almost frightening in his intensity. He's plotting something, I swear it.

Also, did either of them go through a phase where they wanted NOTHING to do with the sand? We were at Lake Michigan on a number of occasions while on vacation, and while Tristan eventually decided he liked the noisy water (to the point of trying to run out into it even when it was so cold that I had decided we wouldn't swim because I couldn't feel my legs when I got waist-deep) he could not abide the sand. Sat on the sheet on the beach and would not venture off of it, wouldn't dig, and if he got sand on his hand, he'd wave it wildly trying to get the sand off.

There goes my plans for a sandbox.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2008 8:40am by Ambrya

What a cutie

Hopefully Aedyn will start to be more comfortable getting in the water now that we have a YMCA membership and can take her swimming more.

That suspicious pic just begs for a caption of some sort. I don't know what, but it does.

Yeah, I have to be quick to correct myself around Hannah. If she catches even the smallest inaccuracy, she's all over me about it. She is also constantly nagging me to do this or that "properly".

http://hannahquotes.blogspot.com/

Nexa

Oh! Teh cute! /dies