Our Woodland Life

I’ve been posting pictures of the girls quite a bit, and I realized I don’t have a picture of Caleb on the new blog yet. (Except in the slideshow)  So here he is.  My big boy will be turning 8 this November.  It’s still a long ways away, but it seems like just yesterday he was a snuggly little newborn.  He was my only snuggler.  He still likes to snuggle. 🙂  He still has pretty eyes too!! 😉

My dad wanted to know what was with all the black and white photos.  I’m not sure, I just know that I love the simplicity of them.  Sometimes all the colors can be a distraction, but that’s just me.

Brian came home and asked me if I knew Kaitlyn was asleep in her chair in her room.  I didn’t, but I hopped up and grabbed my camera.  Interesting that the girls who are sick fell asleep, but not the boys…. hmmm….  I guess today I just have sleeping beauties, no beasts. 😉

It’s later in the evening and little Miss Wia has progressively started feeling worse.  Her cough is getting yucky, and she breathes like she has been running.  I had her lay on my bed, much to her objection, and she sacked out.  I can’t even remember the last time she slept during the day, it has been that long.  She wasn’t kidding when she said, “I don’t feel good”.  (Most of you probably don’t care, but I shot these at 6400 ISO because it is SO overcast outside that my room is really dark.  I overexposed the photos to help keep the graininess down, but couldn’t get rid of  it completely. 🙂 )

Olivia hasn’t been feeling very good.  The kids all have colds again.  She was sitting on my lap and I asked her if she wanted me to take a picture of her.  Surprisingly she agreed.  This was the second photo I took of her.  She has her own ideas of what she wants her pictures to look like.  I have learned to just sit and wait until a “genuine” expression surfaces.  This was one.  Although, I have to admit, I love her “bored” look she modeled for me.  It may not have been “real”, but little did she know she gives me that look all the time. 🙂  …..Or, wait, maybe she was actually just bored of me. 😉

Kaitlyn was just hanging out in my room, so I pulled out the camera to get some photos of her.  I have only taken pictures of the little kids recently, so it was her turn. 🙂  Kaitlyn is sure growing up.  I love that I was able to capture some genuine emotion from her.  My kids suffer from “Photographer’s Child Syndrome” and therefore can be really cheesey!!  But I love these photos of Kaitlyn.

On Monday, in celebration of Valentines Day, the kids and I made Valentine cookies.  As you can see, I had lots of help.  There were lots of hands all trying to get a turn. 😉

Now that Valentines is here, I can post the family picture we took when we did the black, red, and grey photos.  We placed one of Olivia’s small stuffed animals so it was sitting on top of my camera lens.  We used the timer, and had everyone smile at the stuffed animal.  It worked pretty well, surprisingly. 🙂 So here we are….