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Thursday, 17 September 2009

Colin & Calen's slideshow < Click to see slideshow (by 5 West Kids)

I took Colin & Calen to 5 West Studios for Colin's 2 year old pictures and Calen's 100 day photos. I'm so happy with the outcome. I was worried about whether or not there would be any good shots of the two of them together because Calen was so fussy and Colin wanted to play with the toys in the corner. If you have kids, you have to get them photographed. =) Last year we did Colin's 1 year pictures in Central Park (also with 5 West) and this year in the studio. I always thought of studio pics as being cheesy but I think they came out great! I think I'll alternate indoor and outdoor shots from now on.

Thursday, 13 August 2009

They grow so fast! Calen is rolling over one way and almost able to roll back. She's flirting, squealing, and playful. If you can believe it, she's even sweeter than Colin was at that age... and he was a sweetheart. She could be in the middle of a crying fit but if you can just get her to open her eyes and make eye contact, then she'll immediately stop crying and coo with you. She's sweet... Although she's been trying to wake up and feed at 5 in the morning these days. Not cool baby.

I love fat babies. Calen isn't as roly poly as Colin was but she holds her own.

The first three photos were taken by 5 West Studios

Colin is amazing and so much fun these days. He says things like, "Here you go Calen. I made that" as he hands her a plate of play food. He says, "Come back appa. Umma ride boat too" when we read Hey Mr. Choo-Choo. He tattles on anyone who does anything worth telling. Ok, that part is not so cute... but hey no one's perfect.

I bet I'll even miss these moments when he's a teenager telling me to go to hell. At least he's potty trained now.

Central park zoo with girlfriend Mya. She's almost 3... and Colin's first kiss... and second... third...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Colin 2008/9 B.C. (before Calen)

I think this was summer 2008!

Eating strawberries

Time Warner Center

Princeton, NJ November 2008

Colin and Annie Princeton NJ

Colin in his new sweater that harmoni made December 2008

After his EEG January 2009

Colin walking his pet Ahgo February 2009

Playing at the park February 2009

Colin 2009 A.C.

March 2009 (just born)

April 2009 (week old)

June 2009

April 2009

More later......... Calen pooped and Colin has class

Friday, 08 May 2009

I just published my previous post on facebook... first time. It said I published it to friends' home pages.. what does that mean? It's on each individual page? How annoying of me!
When I was backing up my files onto my nifty new external drive, I wasn't paying enough attention and I accidently erased all the pictures of Calen (and Colin) except the few that we took at the hospital. And considering she's brand new I lost a lot of "firsts" like first-tummy-time. I was so bummed. Luckily she looks like Colin so really I can just look at his baby pictures...

Colin is such a good Oppa. He gives her kisses (and leaves puddles of germy-germ drool on her, )brings her blankets (and covers her face) and toys (and pokes her with them because she won't/can't accept them). If you ask him who's baby she is he'll say, "Colin baby." I love my son.

Calen is Colin... dressed in pink.

My angel...

managed to project poo over 4 feet... on two playmats, two pillows, my hands/arm/leg, and Colin's arm in one fatal blow. Whatta shitty, shitty day that was!

My biggest pet peeve is when Colin says, "mine, mine, mine." I tried to spank it out of him... but that only fueled the fire. Now he says "mine, mine, mine" whenever he wants to piss me off or if I piss him off even if it doesn't fit contextually. It really gets under my skin. I'd prefer if he told me to "fuck off." That would make me laugh.

I'll be sad the day Colin can enunciate better than me. Til then I'll enjoy trying to decode his baby talk. Our favorite is the mochocho (remote control). We just learned that a wacaca is a harmonica. Colin is also at the age where he is pretty possessive. Everything is my <this> and my <that>. The other day he was putting on his Crocs while chanting "my cock my cock"

They grow so fast. I watch Calen double in weight in a month... and I think... maybe I want a third. Yikes.