From the category archives:
Remember my afternoon with Emma? Well, I have been wanting to do the same with Lucy, but her cold has made things … difficult. So instead, I spent 30 minutes with her a couple of days ago before we had to go pick up Emma from preschool.
Yes, she ate a banana and a clementine within a 30-minute period of time. No, this is not unusual.
all images edited with VSCO presets Fuji 800Z+
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I had a post started this morning, and it was talking about how much better Lucy is feeling, and how we had a pretty good weekend together. But then she got all chest-rumbly again, and she had a hard afternoon.
I made onion cough syrup.
With onions.
I read about it here, and I thought it would be the perfect solution.
I gave her two doses yesterday, and it wasn’t so bad. But then this morning, I tried to give her the 3rd dose right before her naptime. She cried and gagged … I smelled it and threw up. So the onion cough syrup is not the solution for us right now.
But I do think it has potential. Just maybe not while I’m pregnant? I think I’ll try it with sweet onions next time.
Anyway, still just running the humidifier 24/7 and pushing fluids like crazy. Hoping she feels much better tomorrow.
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Attention all of my Southern photographer friends … the amazing Meg Bitton [her most recent blog post? SO INSPIRING!!] is holding a Souls.Imagined workshop in Dalton, Georgia from Saturday, April 21 until Sunday, April 22.
Spots are limited, so please contact Meg via her Facebook page as soon as possible for more information.
Magical.
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we never put a gate up at the bottom of the stairs when Emma was a toddler. either she didn’t have much interest in the stairs or I had the time to chase her up and down 247 times a day or she listened when I told her to stay downstairs or she learned to walk up and down them at an early age.
but I finally had to order and install a downstairs gate.
let me show you why.
up.
down.
up. with the addition of the always beautiful drool goatee.
down.
up.
with a small break to climb on top of the chubby picture-taker.
this happens constantly. daily. many many times.
we had to get a gate.
all pictures taken with Canon 50D + 50mm 1.8 and processed with VSCO presets
I hope you like these kind of posts, because that’s what I’m about right now … and throughout 2012. spending more time with the girls – capturing the everyday without sweating the small stuff – cleaner edits – less talking – more sharing of the normal.
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I almost never think about the fact that Lucy was premature. Except for when she’s sick. I swear, my baby girl catches everything that’s going around, even if it’s just floating down the street. I almost bore myself with all of my facebook updates and tweets about her being snotty and coughing and a total wreck.
I feel like I somehow failed her, because even though I breastfed her, she still doesn’t seem to have the immune system to fight whatever comes her way. I mean, that’s one of the reasons given by the breastfeeding advocates – your kid will miraculously be healthier! Sigh.
She eats healthier than any of the rest of us, and I feel like I’m doing everything on the “how to boost immunity” check list.
I usually have these feelings of “what am I doing wrong!?!?” when I’m sitting on the floor of her bedroom at 2am, rocking back and forth and trying not to lose my mind.
Or at 3am when she’s finally asleep, but I am sitting up. On the floor.
Or at 4am, when I have to pee, but I can’t move her off of me without her acting like I am doing the WORST THING EVER.
Anyway, all of that to say, Lucy’s sick again. Again.
[Two babies on the front!]
SO if you don’t see me or hear from me for a couple of days, it’s because I’ll be busy snuggling this one and sucking snot and pushing fluids and offering blueberries and shoveling vitamin drops into her mouth.
Wish us luck. And sleepy dust.
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I’m not doing a project 365 this year, but I am going to try to post one photo a day in my new daily photo section. For now, I have it showing up in my blog’s RSS feed, so I hope it’s not too annoying. If it gets to be too much, I’ll remove it from the feed.
I’ll be leaving comments off on these posts just because I can barely keep up with responding to [most] of the comments you guys leave on my regular posts [THANK YOU!!] and I like talking to you. So … it’s just a share without discussion.
So … how do you get there?
1. Click on either the link at the top of my blog or the graphic in the sidebar.
2. If you aren’t already subscribed to my blog, you can subscribe to just the daily photo RSS feed if you want – I have instructions on how to do that {here} or you can just click on {this link right here}.
In other news, I spend the majority of my day trying to keep Lucy from killing herself. Girlfriend is fearless! And a climber.
Other than that, it’s pretty boring around here.
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