I am considering something – merging my personal and photography blog into one. It is actually shocking to me that I am saying that because my entire life with babies is on that blog. And I have loved it dearly. But for some reason, I have not wanted to post there or take personal pictures. I don’t know if it is because I have been working a lot and don’t want to feel any more added pressure. Or if I am just being lazy. But as anyone who has always read that blog can see, I have abandoned ship. And I have kind of out grown it – the name of the blog is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, but I have another daughter who deserves some credit, too. The header has been the same for years and years. Poor Annie has no representation there either. After seeing two dear friends that have beautiful babies from Vietnam and that each take some of the most beautiful pictures you have ever seen in your life combine their blogs, I have thought more and more about it. One blog seems a lot easier to manage than two. There was no way I would be posting to the Lucy blog when I have to do a post here, so it just kind of makes sense. Thoughts on this??
For those of you that have ended up on this blog simply because of the photography, I would like to formally say hello. This is me, Kelly, and these are my daughters, Lucy and Annie. My sweet husband snapped a few shots for me because I am never in the picture and it is a personal project for myself this year to do better about getting in the shot more. He did an awesome job, huh? He is a talented boy. :)
At night after dinner, you will almost always find us out front getting a little bit more play time in before bath and bed. This is probably my favorite time of day. Sometimes we paint, sometimes we chalk, sometimes we just run wild, and sometimes we roller skate. Annie is almost always down to her diaper by this point of the day. I really don’t think that there is much cuter than an almost nakey baby.
Annie has turned up her drama level about 10 fold lately. She has started throwing these extremely dramatic fits where she fully (but gently so as not to hurt herself) throws herself to the ground, rolls over, puts her face down, kicks and screams. I know, I know, you are looking at these pictures of her and saying to yourself, “Not buying it. That sweet child would NEVER act like that.” I get it, I do the same thing and I am living it. She is so so so cute and hilarious that the fits are just that, hilarious to us. Sure, some days they get a little old, but for the most part, they make us laugh – not at her of course. It takes something small to get her attention and distract her from the fit and then it is over just as quickly as it started. She is a sucker for food. Food fixes anything in Annie’s world. She is a mess, but thank God she is our mess.
I will start with quite possibly my favorite picture that I have ever been in. I wish that I could share this hug and smile with every single person in the world. We would all be better off. Luckily for me, I get to have this every single day. And now I have a precious picture showing just how awesome a hug from Annie really is. She gives it her all, and I can feel that hug down to my bones.
*sigh* She is getting big. And even more beautiful.
I will treasure these next two forever. I love them both so much.
And I love how she is still so little wrapped up in my arms. She might be 2, but I am keeping her my baby for as long as possible.
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