December Daily - Day 6

I think we'll attempt this in a different location in the house tomorrow...but here's day 6...I love his smile here :) Just FYI, this might possibly end up on a Christmas card, so don't look if you don't want to ruin any surprises!

and one with slightly different processing...

 141 frames shot in roughly 5 minutes, and I got 2 usable images...sounds about right ;)

December Daily - Day 5

Our lights are up! I hand-held this shot at 1/8th of a second...too cold out to get the tripod all set up! :) Huge thanks to Daddy for putting the lights up in the rain on Saturday morning. We love to go out and look at them every night!

December Daily - Day 2

It's only December 5th and I've already failed at taking pictures every day for the month, lol...in my defense, I've been really sick for the past two days and am only feeling marginally better today...yuck! Here's a few pictures from December 2nd - our "first" day opening the Advent Calendar Greg brought back from Germany (we cheated and did the first day the day he got back because we all wanted to taste the chocolate!)

Opening the wrong door first...and then having a mini fit because we can't eat that chocolate. ;) Oh, to be two!

Finding the square with the number "2" on it.

December Daily

Christina brought this little thing called December Daily to my attention a couple weeks ago when we were hanging out. You're supposed to take a photo a day in December and make a scrapbook out of it. There's no way in the world I'll get around to making the scrapbook, but a photo a day? I can do that. I think. ;) I know what you're thinking - I *still* haven't posted photos from Halloween or the carnival we went to, or a couple other events that I'm sure are sitting on memory cards just waiting for a chance to be blogged. But if I wait until I blog those to post about the events in December...well...let's just say Will might be graduated from college by the time I get all caught up!!

Tonight I took him out to get some shots for our cards. I think I may have captured one or two to put on them (yay!) but I also got a lot of sweet outtakes. So here's a few from that. Is it just me, or did he turn from toddler to boy overnight? *tear*

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This is *so* very him right now!

I am very much not opposed to bribery, as long as it gets me cute photos :)

Ice Cream for Breakfast?

Will asked for ice cream for breakfast this morning...he would eat ice cream every meal of the day if I let him, I'm sure. So instead of shooting his idea down, I said okay! And thanked heavens for the Pinterest idea I'd seen last night.

Behold, ice cream, for breakfast!

He wasn't thrilled with my rendition of ice cream for breakfast, but he did eat it (begrudgingly) ;) That green stuff? It's applesauce. He was getting bored with regular applesauce, so I started putting sprinkles on it. A few days ago he told me he wanted red applesauce. Not sure where that one came from, but a drop of red food coloring later, he was happy :)

Cute Sayings

Because I don't want to forget these...

- While eating a Clif Kids bar today... "Mmmm! This is delicious!" (prounounced as de-wish-ous)
- "Mommy, you have yum (gum) in your mouth?"
- Frustrated that something wasn't working..."Oh, it needs batteries!" (...it didn't take batteries ;))
- In the car..."Its a red light! You have to stop now!"
- "I has a question for you!" (...and then he never actually asks a question!)
- "It sounds like a pizza (or other random object)." (what he really means is it LOOKS like that object!)
- Looking at a long-haired cow in his farm book..."Oh, he needs a haircut!"
- "Holy tow!" (holy cow...yeah, I say that one a lot!)
- When he wants us to do something..."You don't have a choice!" (you guessed it, we say this to him a lot, haha!)
- "Oh! I have a great idea! Let's play choo-choos!"

He still twirls his hair when he's tired. He still loves his paci (and I have no plans to do anything about that anytime soon). He's wearing 3T shirts and bottoms (as long as I cinch the waist up as much as they'll go...love adjustable waist pants!). He loves trains. He has Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? memorized. He loves the dogs, especially Riley. He loves to play outside. He'll pee in the potty as long as he doesn't have a diaper on (so he frequently goes bottom-less in the afternoons). He still calls my dad Grandpapa (sorry dad, I don't think that one's going away anytime soon!) and if he's being particularly silly, he'll call my mom Grandmama (though most of the time she's just Gram). He loves to wrestle on the bed and get "baby slams." He hates hot food and prefers to have it "cooled off" when he eats it. He likes to eat "cold hot dogs" and requests them daily, along with strawberries with sugar. He loves to pretend he's asleep when we pull into the garage, complete with fake snoring. He loves to get tickles. He loves to play with his whales in the bathtub.

Getting ready to have "rest time" and watch Ice Age.

Can't believe he's 2 1/2!

Drowning

I'm sorry I've been MIA. I'm up to my eyeballs in work and have been up late editing nearly every night...Saturday I worked for 18 hours straight between shooting and editing - hence the title of this post. I have some pictures of Will I really want to share, but they're going to have to wait until I get a chance to breathe...hopefully soon :)