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Week 45

A quick recap of our weekend up north

Isla and I flew up to New Jersey this past weekend to visit my dear friend from college.  We had fun hanging out in her new (old) house and playing with her kids and Isla loved snuggling her adorable fluffy cats.  On Sunday, we took our girls to be photographed by Meg Bitton (dream come true for me!) and it was wonderful.  Meg's photos are flawless and the thing I love most about her work is that her subjects are so perfectly captured.  Her images of Isla will be cherished by me forever.  I must say, Isla was on her A-game that day.  She was sweet, respectful, a good listener and a perfect model.  I was so proud of her and the wonderful young girl she is becoming.  

After our sessions we went into the city for the afternoon and evening and Isla loved taking the train, eating in an outdoor cafe and playing in Central Park.  The highlight, to her I think as she drew a picture of it at school the next day, was seeing the Empire State Building all lit up at night.  New York is a wonderful city and love visiting.  Even more, I love that hanging out with my oldest friends still feels as natural and easy and fun as it did twenty years ago.  

Here's to many more New York trips with my girl. I love you Isla, I hope when you see these photos in years to come you will always be reminded of how special you are.  

Love Mama. 

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Another week - people are finally getting healthy again, thank you!  Now just for some more sunshine please. :)

Stellan wasn't having fun backdrop portrait posing this week.  So, here's a candid.  

Anyone else out there who reads this blog doing a 52 project?  Let me see! Link up in comments!

7/52

 Ronan - has been sick since Wednesday.  :( I just feel awful for him.  

Isla and Stellan - have been in cahoots all day.  We had to do some work in the back yard to keep the yard from flooding so it's basically a dirt pile at the moment.  Of course, this makes for some great times when you're very small.  

Wolf - first pic, taken last Sunday - flying high and feeling great on a SUPER bright sunny Sunday.  Last pic? Feeling like crap on a super bright sunny Saturday.  Alas. 

Here's hoping for a healthier week next week. 

6/52

A portrait of my children each week. 

Ronan: Looks forward to coming home for some iPad time after school to play his new favorite game, Terraria. 

Isla: Attended her first formal dance with her father, the Sweetheart Ball.  She loved the dressing up, getting fancy hair and all the attention. Only two more days in that cast!!!! YAY!

Stellan: Wild thing wouldn't let me get a good pic of him.  But man o man, do I love his Max costume. 

Wolf: Oh, you know, just innocently tearing through every and all cabinet, basket, drawer, bin, what have you that he gan get his hands into.  :) 

Until next week...

5/52

A portrait of my children every week for 52 weeks.  

Ronan: working on letting me take real photos of him.  His freckles, oh my.

Isla: letting me play with some fun lighting.

Stellan: still a baby <3

Wolf:  eater of ALL of the blueberries

Can't believe another week has flown by so quickly.  How is it February tomorrow?  Wasn't it just Christmas?  In six weeks it'll be my birthday, quickly followed by the littlest boy's birthdays in quick succession.  Whoa.  Time to party plan Wolf's wild ONE!!!! I'm desperately soaking up every last second of my last baby.  He's trying to stand, and soon he'll be walking, probably by his birthday.  *sniffle sniff.  So fast.  So fast. 

a 52 project? A photo of my children every week?

Well, I want to try.  I'm quite keen on these things.  Watching other people's children grow and change throughout one year has been really interesting see.  I'd love to create a book at the end of the year of all of the photos I put in this series.  How lovely would that be?  I've actually been taking photos quite regularly, but nothing to get too excited about.  So, I'll catch up in this post... then, ideally, I hope to update with a 52 photo every weekend at the end of each week.  Who will be in these photos?  Well, ideally I'll have a picture of each kiddo, but hey, more than one in a frame counts, and really I'll take whoever I can get.  At least one child each week.  Ideally all four, but, you know.  I'll do the best I can.  If you're doing a 52 project let me know?  Maybe we can inspire each other to keep it through to the end of the year?  

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And, just for some quick recap of the last few weeks...

Isla broke her left arm.  Mending it required pins and five+ weeks in a full arm cast.  That sucked. A lot. But happily (?) surprisingly (?) she's totally unfazed and continues to play hard.  Can't keep a good 5 year old down, I suppose.  

Stellan's vocabulary has exploded.  He knows all of the things.  All the colors.  All the animals.  All the sounds.  All the nuances.  It's pretty much blown my mind.  He even knows the names of dinosaurs.  Crazy I tell you.  I'm glad I wasn't worried because he wasn't talking as early as his siblings, because yeah, he's just fine.  Oh, did I mention he's beginning to speak in Spanish to our nanny?  Yeah, that too.  He knows Spanish.  I don't know Spanish.  That's crazy.  And his voice is super cute.  Almost three is peak cuteness.  So so cute. 

Ronan is a Minecraft master.  Loves school.  Might have a couple girl crushes.  (I approve of them all) And is pretty much just becoming a big kid.  How?  Yeah, it's madness.  

Wolf is crawling now and cruising like a boss in his hula walker thing that we unearthed from the attic that used to belong to Ronan.  He mastered that in a few quick beats and is tooling all over the downstairs of our house.  He's thoroughly enjoying his power.  

I hope your New Years has been off to a wonderful start.  

xo Cat

 

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