Miss Lily

Lily is the second child, and I admit that sometimes she gets forgotten. She is the one that never asks for anything, she is easy to please. And because of this she gets looked over easier and our attention goes to the most demanding of our kids. 

I am trying to make extra effort to show her that she is not forgotten and to show her that she is special. This week I am trying to put together a book for her.  Images of her as a baby, in a beautiful hard cover bound book.

Around the time when Lily was born digital cameras were starting to become affordable, so we made our big purchase, a $200 Cannon something. I didn't really know what I was doing, or what pixels meant....and now I am regretting making all the images as small as possible. But I was happy that I didn't have to develop film, so I didn't. 

Over the past 6 years, I have owned 5 computers and saved her digital pictures on each of them. Unfortunately all but 1 of those computers have crashed (thankfully I did back ups). So, now I am digging through the hundreds of backup disks to find pictures of miss Lily so she is not forgotten. 

She was the cutest baby, she really was. She was happy, slept through the night, and she was quiet. Which is funny if you know her now. She didn't talk one word until she was 3, and then 2 years of speech therapy later, she doesn't stop talking (just ask her teacher at school) and she is our loudest kid. 

I found these images and though they are horrible quality, I loved looking and remembering what a sweet and funny baby she was.

p.s.

Notice the larger pictures below? Yeah, I thought so...nice eh? It is a little trick I learned. Comment if you want to learn how to do it.

To the beach we go

Nanny and Poppy came to visit us for a quick trip. We took them to our beach house and we had a great time.

Nanny gathered wood for a bon fire, poppy flew a kite, Ruby bossed everyone around, blew up in her diaper in the car so bad we had to pull over and change into new clothing. I have never seen dad move so fast as he did when he jumped out of the car, It totally stunk us out. And then Otto threw up in the car, Nice! Definitely a trip to remember.

Brooklyn is still in depression mode, she loves her Nanny & Poppy and it always takes her at least a week for her to get back to normal after family leaves. She cries for 3 days straight, looks at pictures, and then finally 3-4 days later we see her come out of her sad depression. I hope this is not a sign that she will be an emotional teen.............

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Spring 10 will have a vintage surf inspired line, so we want to know:
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New picture

I havn't taken very many recent pictures of myself, so I thought I would post a new one.