My New Niece or Nephew!

As some of you may know, I am going to be getting TWO new nieces/nephews by the end of the year. Yay! Both my sister, Marley, and Shawn's sister, Ashley, are pregnant and I could not be more excited! I LOVE babies and I am going to have so much fun taking their photos. Sadly, that will have to wait until August for Marley's baby and November for Ashley's baby, but I did manage to get Marley's very first belly pic on the weekend. This is her 17 week shot. And yes, there is only one little baby in there :)

Finally!

Today I accomplished something that I thought might not happen for years - I got both of my girls to sit down together and look at my camera at the SAME TIME and without any major fighting between Ella and I. WOO HOO! And all it took was bribing her with candy and a secret weapon: the brand new "Princess and the Frog" dvd that she has been wanting so badly. I have had grandparents harrassing me with the fact that I haven't given them any photos of the girls together and I hated the fact that I didn't have a photo of them to put on my wall, but now I finally do! I failed to get both girls to smile at the same time, but I am just so excited that I got them to sit and look at the camera and not cry. I feel like it is a miracle and I just hope that I might be able to do it again sometime in the future. Until then, I am pretty happy with these shots. Here are my pretty little girlies. Oh, and I'm having a hard time deciding which one to get for my wall, so I'd appreciate some input on what people's favorites are! And just for fun, here is a shot of Lily in my brand new, cute as can be tea cup photo prop. I've been wanting one for a long time and couldn't find one until now. I was hoping for a girlie one or a polka dotted one, but this was the only one I could find. I didn't know if it would be girlie enough, but I think it works with the pink background, and of course with Lily in it . She makes me love it!

Random Shots

Since I last posted, my house has been full of sickness. The day after Lily's photoshoot, she came down with the worst, terrible, horrible, awful cold that you could imagine. It made her so stuffy and irritable that I literally held her for about 22 hours a day. It was not fun and she is just now starting to get over it. Then I got another cold. So in the past month I have had the flu, Lily had the flu, Ella had a terrible cold, I had a cold that made me lose my voice, Lily got her terrible cold, and then I got cold number two. Between all of that and everything else that goes on in our everyday lives, I really haven't been taking that many photos or posting here. I have said it before and I will say it again - I CANNOT wait for summer to get here! I want everyone to be healthy again and I want to be able to get outside and take some photos. I am tired of coming to this blog and having yet another excuse of why I haven't been posting. I will be SO happy when summer gets here! Until then, here are a few random shots of what we have been doing when we're not sick.
Ella loves helping feed Lily. I love how unsure Lily looks in this one, like she's asking me what the heck I'm thinking letting Ella shove that spoon in her mouth.
But she looks a lot more comfortable here.Ella has also decided that she needs to eat apples like "a big dirl". Never mind the fact that she doesn't even like apples. She saw a couple of the big girls eating apples like this, so now she thinks she has to. She takes about two bites and throws it away. It kind of drives me crazy, but it is really cute at the same time.

Just a random shot of Lily enjoying her carrots.

Ella out for a walk on a nice day.

And Miss Lily sitting in the stroller, enjoying the nice weather.

And, finally, a random shot of Lily sitting with Sophie. It is amazing how far along her sitting abilities have come in just one short week.