Fat and Sassy, as promised

When James had his surgery, the doctor kept saying "Don't worry, soon he'll be all fat and sassy."  Granted at the time we could see his entire rib cage sticking-out, so for him this is pretty fat.  He had a doctor's appointment last Monday and we are happy to announce that he is back on the growth curve.  He's still pretty skinny and his sass will never compare to that of his sister, but if you ask me, he's got just the right amount of both fat and sass.

Baby James - 3 month Portraits

I have the tradition to take pictures of each kid at 3 months in their blessing outfit.  I know that 3 months seems a little old and that their little "newborn size" blessing outfit should not still fit, but believe it or not they all start out really slow.  James thus far holds the record for puniest baby, although the others are not far behind.  Anyhow I only need one picture to put on the wall so that I have a full matching set - no really all the boys have the same outfit in different colors (it could be an episode of twilight zone) - so of course I did the only logical thing and took hundreds of shots. 

Birthday Pictures

The best part about doing Natalie's birthday pictures so late was doing both the kids at the same time.  Sadly I was all alone with 3 kids and my little wiener baby cried the entire time unless I was holding him.  I thought surely there would be a re-shoot, but frankly I only really needed one great shot of each kid and I think I got a few.  Also I would like to make a disclaimer on Natalie's outfit: yes I do realize that 2 different patterns in one outfit are too much, but in my defense I would like to say that I wanted a solid pink shirt, unfortunately none were to be found and she loves those flowered leggings, in fact I had to fight her to put something on over them.  Maybe at some point I'll photo shop the flowers out of all the pictures; but then maybe it's easier to just take more pictures with different tights.

 My favorite shot of Nat, minus the flowers on her leggings:

 My favorite shot of Doug, which would be framed in the house, but you can't see his face.

A Love Story

For some reason I was thinking of this book today and thought, hmm...wonder if I still have that.  Turns out, I did....and it still makes me laugh.  Anyway seeing as how it's valentine's day, I thought a tribute to what might be the best wedding gift of all time was in order.

wasn't I a lovely bride?