More photo shoot results: Location: June's living room

Experimenting with the new camera

Panasonic Lumix, so far, producing great quality photos. My model was fairly cooperative today, due to lots of promised bribes (gum, cookies, fave videos, etc). The Cinderella dress was itchy, so we almost had a meltdown for a moment there!

Snowmageddon, part deux

We survived two days of being indoors, non-stop, save for a few 'sled runs' yesterday. It was too nasty to stay outside long.

Today, we did a small, lopsided snowman, and Mary 'planted flowers' (aka her small beach shovels and tools) in the snow banks. Photos from Thursday's snowy day to be uploaded later.

Snow is too high to sled on. The top 12 inches or so are powder and then the base is solid.

A portrait

The top drawing was done in January, 2010, as part of the pre K Kindergarten readiness eval.
The drawing below was done in September, 2009.

The top drawing could be a self portrait, not sure, but I love the little heart for the mouth!

Who dat...

in the swimming pool?

a future synchronized swimmer? I think not. Little Miss "Don't give me orders!" wouldn't like that sport : )

Some very grainy photos of the Dragon parade

I'd like to say that I photoshopped these and used the grainy texture option, but these photos were naturally that way, no flash was allowed. i seriously have to choose a new camera.

Two really cute, happy BFFs!

Great give-away at Maternal Lens blog, for all you photoshop freaks!

I'd like to try the vintage actions and textures out on photos like these.

Princess du jour

future kid blogger of the year

hey, ariel and eric, I bet there is a support group for inter-species couples...

is this some kind of statue of liberty tribute? who knows?

Scene: Disney store

Post Christmas sale

Event: I purchased the one and only remaining Mulan costume, for a fraction of the retail price ($54.00). Sale price was $12.00

And, it just happened to be the correct size.

Our current princesses in residence are:

Mary

Mulan

Belle

Cindy (bff)

Ariel

Narcolepsia (aka S.B.)

Snow White

Jasmine (TSA always does a body scan on Aladdin before he gets on a flight, even magic carpets could be used as weapons of destruction. ) Not in my backyard, not on my airplane. Say yes to profiling!!!

(end of public service announcement for the day)...

2010 not quite extreme close-ups

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Definitive proof of the global warming theory: epic December snowstorm

Ha! Looks like we will have a white Christmas! Mary loves diving into the snow banks, as you can see. I may have to find my old ski pants, I think they are at my parents' house, and wear them on such occasions.