This blog is about our life as a family, but most importantly to document the life of our daughter Lil Lolo, and our soon to be new addition Lil Monkey!
"We write to taste life twice, once in the moment and in retrospection" - Anais Nin
Daddy - is a 31 year old foreman for a commercial flooring company. His greatest passion (other than his families well-being and happiness of course) is music!
Mommy - is a 30 year old HR Generalist on a military base. She loves photography, crafting, decorating, and of course blogging. She is the owner of Lyndsey Baker Photography!
Lil Lolo - is a kind, caring, outgoing, feisty 5.5 year old. She was born on June 16th 2008.
"The most imporant thing in life is to stop saying "I wish" and start saying "I will". Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities!" Unknown
This is actually something that I have been struggling with for a while, I have said "I wish" many times lately, its time to turn "I wish" into "I will" and start following through with my health goals.
I had my first baby bump session last weekend, and it was a super special session for me because it was of my very good friend Maggie and her beautiful belly! Maggie has asked me to be present for her home birth, and let me tell you I am so excited and honoured that she has asked me!
We went to a home birth class a few weeks ago at her midwife's office; all I know is that I was a little unsure of the whole process, and now I know for sure that I will have a midwife the next time around. The extra care that you get compared to seeing a regular OB is unbelievable.
Maggie is due on the 26th, and I cannot wait to be present while her baby girl makes her debut into this world. I am going to bring my camera along so that I capture the process so that Maggie can relive the process of her daughters birth again and again.
Here are the photo's from Maggie's baby bump session :)
I cannot wait to hold her beautiful baby girl, and of course take her newborn session photos very soon! :)
Of course we do not forget the real reason for Easter , Jesus suffered and died for us, this being the greatest act of love. Then three days later he was resurrected… overcoming death so that we may live again. Although in our house we may not be practicing Catholics, spirituality and faith is important to us, so it is equally important to give thanks while also celebrating all the other activities we do for Easter!
The Easter Bunny did make an appearance at our house in the middle of the night, and for the first time, Loralai understood! When she woke the first thing she said to me was "do you think the Easter Bunny came, Mommy?" I was so excited!!!
Here is a video documenting Easter Bunny's apperance...
I have loved this little old run down gas station on the way to my Great Grandmothers...every time we drove by I thought that I would really like to take some pictures there! Of course, the location is not exactly ideal to take pictures of a preschooler, but it is a really cool location for a senior session! Take a sweet looking girl and pair it with the hard run down looking gas station...this kind of combo is a match made in heaven in my eyes! :)
My beautiful cousin Sarah agreed to be my little model! :) It was starting to get chilly, so we were literally at this site for about 8 minutes!
We have been doing a lot of Easter celebrating over the last week or so, I believe that the title of the blog is fitting since the activities that we have been partaking in are the previews to the big event tomorrow! :)
1. Making our Easter bunny house
2. Paper macheing our new front door Easter wreath! :)
3. Celebrating Easter with Great Grandma and extended family
4. Easter egg hunt and pottery painting with good friend Chloe
5. Making bunny ears
We also added a new addition to our family! A Betta fish named Monkey.
On the week of March break we took Loralai to a Princess for a Day event put on by our local Beauty Supply Shop. It was a super cute event, and Loralai had a really great time! She got her nails, make up, and hair done!
I made a short video to document our fun afternoon:
Loralai and I had gone to Toys R Us later that evening, and purchased some new accessories for her bike.
So after about 5 days after our fun Princess for a Day event had passed, Loralai's daycare provider and Godmother Carrie was caring for Loralai's hurt foot, and happened to notice nits in her hair! Yep you read that correctly Loralai got lice from the Princess for a Day event (no one at daycare had it, only Loralai)! Thank goodness that Carrie found it so early before it broke out into a whole nightmare of a mess...but being called home early from a busy day at work, lots of cleaning and serializing, and $70 later we seemed to have beat the lice...I have one more treatment to do for her tomorrow (7 day mark) to make sure that it is all defeated.
I do have to admit that when I got the call, I was more terrified that I had it then Loralai having it! But we now are equipped with tea tree oil, to hopefully help ensure that we are not here again...and those school days are approaching very quickly!
So I have to say that 99% of the time that I watch TV it is PVR recorded shows; so as I was watching my recorded show this evening, I thought hmm...I wonder what my recorded list says about me?
Here is my list (it is listed by importance):
Vampire Dairies - Drama
Grey's Anatomy - Drama
New Girl - Comedy
Tori and Dean - Reality
Giuliana and Bill - Reality
How I Met Your Mother - Comedy
2 Broke Girls - Comedy
Whitney - Comedy
The Big Bang Theory - Comedy
Glee - Comedy
So first WOW I follow a lot of shows...OK moving on...so I am about to say a couple of thing that are really embarrassing, first of all Vampire Dairies is the only show that I am obsessed about, that I watch while its taping, and do watch several times before the next episode returns the following week. I also let the PVR tape the first about 10-15 minutes of the show before I start watching, this way I can fast forward through some of the commercials! Genius right?! Ha.
I personally love my PVR since I can watch the show at any time and not be tied to the TV on any certain evening/time...well except like I mentioned before Thursday nights at 7pm...you will find me glued to the TV...do not try to talk to me during that time! Got it? ;) and I do not have to ever watch commericals! The only thing that I do not like about the PVR is that at the very end always gets cut off! Ticks me when there is a preview for the following weeks show!
Two of my cousins are getting married this summer, I am so excited to feel all the love in the air!
I was very honoured that I was able to take the engagement photo's for Kim and her finance Matt, and that I will be taking the wedding photo's for my cousin Chrissy and her finance Chris...how exciting and nerve racking is that?!!
Here are some of the engagement photo's of Kim and Matt...enjoy!
First of all I finally got my new camera! I am so in love, but of course it will take me while to play with it to get a hang of everything that it is capable of!
second of all...my Peekaboo & Polkadot website has finally launched! I am super excited, and hopeful about the new possibilities and path that I am taking!
Last but not least, Drake and Loralai had a quick impromptu Valentine photo session just the other evening!
My favourite picture of the session!
How beautiful are these two kids? <3 they just have so much personality!
This is how you continue to keep preschoolers engaged...you have to let them make silly faces every so often!
