layla's 6 month pics

i thought these went terribly. judah was in RUH-AIR form that day and even miss easy face was uncharacteristically fussy and tired way before her bedtime. so imagine my surprise when our magician photographer brenna gave us our complete session CD and i found a trove of pixelated gems!

i had just finished layla's nursery and wanted some really good pics of the place. the natural light in that room is medium at best so i needed brenna's skills/umbrella flash/camera/eye to capture the details just right. i am going to go back and post these on the nursery reveal too because they are just so pretty.

i love what brenna does with color most of all, but she won me over even more (as if that was possible)with our white baby in a white bathtub. swoonsville, party of me!

goober in and goober on.

putting the moves on both of us.

hahaha. quite the assortment. love the sunshine in the first one, the sweetness (bought with many gummies) in the second and judah channelling the fonz in the third.

i call this sequence, "you asked for it" alternate title: "if you give a girl a fish..."

jazz hands, stank faces and general smushiness in the big bed.

100% UN-scripted/asked for/expected. like i said, he was in rare form. she looks so indignant as it's happening, and then resigned to her fate, and then finally she makes lemonade and just decides to snack on the mulch. that's my girl. great catch, bren!

5 & 5 with phone support

sorry to throw another cellphone pics-only post at you, but i am crazy busy. this time it's busy in the good, "i'm going to win the dundie award for bushiest beaver," kind of way, and not the, "i'm going to tie you all up and put you in the closet if you dont leave me alone" kind of way that i usually operate under.

a post naptime snack/snuggle/george screening. they both toddled over to me and demanded to be on me like two tiny little ron burgundy's

things i love about this pic:

1. judah's adorably genuine smile and the fact that he is loving being in my lap.

2. layla's stoic stank face and lips

3. woody cheesing right along with us cause he's just happy to be there and how i didnt even realize judah had sneaked him in the frame

4. the fact that layla's belly takes up 20% of the screen

5. that you can actually see the shape of our window and the panes reflected in my forehead shine. matte-fying powder, anyone?

keeping it positive and breezy-sweets, here are 5 things i love about this week:

1. the kids are back in daily preschool! 4 hours a day 5 days a week. they LOVE it and get so much playtime and stimulation that they come home and both take 3 hour naps. i heart routine.

toddler chic in his sweatpant cutoffs, h+m tank and teensy backpack. and my big man is so hot in his floral tote. j/k that is just my hairy arm/leg/foot.

2.

um, was that a fall breeze i just felt?!?! yes! temps hitting the 60's at night and only topping out at 89 during the day. i actually checked the weather yesterday and saw the typical smothering hi/low of 93/76. i FORCED myself into a courageous 10 am run (it's usually sickeningly hot here by then) and it felt so breezy and light that i had to recheck the forecast. i then realized my phone was still checking weather at our beach in florida. happy surprise to me.

3. jesse got several new supporters and a really significant new partnership for his ministry just in the nick of time ("weird," huh?). hooray for paying all of our bills!

4. etsy orders continue to roll in, but i am staying on top of them and plan to get some pleasure sewing done this week. another one of these for layla and something for me too!

i better make something fast before my baby goat-lette eats all my fabric!

5. even though i am now TWO months behind on layla's monthly birthday posts, i am FINALLY ahead/NOT behind on our laundry.

about 6 loads. instead of folding/putting it away these past few weeks, we just decided to use it as the set for our own production of les miserables in the living room. culture. but it's gone and now I am master of the house.

fraggle rock

this little nerd puts me on a snuggly rocket ship straight to the planet "how did i ever think i could live without a girl?" my fuzzy baby gremlin monkey is a hearty dose of god saying, "doy, chica, i know what i am doing."