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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Charlie's Playground (Baby Sister's Room)




We are currently in the process of decorating the new baby's room. Charlie thinks the room is his personal playground. Since it used to be our guest room, it is the most spacious of the three regular bedrooms. Charlie has lots of space to roam, roll, wiggle, and climb. It might be a rude awakening to him when a sweet sleeping little girl keeps him from his playroom! Here are a few shots of Charlie in his baby sister's room.

Charlie and the Black Peppercorns

As I was updating the blog about the photography class, my sweet little stinker was reaching into Daddy's spice drawer and pulling out a jar of whole black peppercorns. I watched him do it but I let it slide because I thought that there was no way he could get it open. WRONG. Moments later I'm sitting on the floor scooping up mounds of peppercorns as Charlie is relishing them as fast as he can. He is eating them whole. Yuck. Is it any wonder he still has reflux? I wish I got a picture but I couldn't stop cleaning to get the camera....

Photography Class

In May, I took a one day photography class at a friend's Art Co-Op for Women here in Charlotte. The class taught the mechanics of using the digital camera and centered on how to take good pictures in manual (not using the automatic camera settings). It also taught a little bit about picture composition. It was very helpful to me because I've been wanting to learn more about photography if for nothing else than to take great pictures of the kids myself instead of paying a professional expensive fees!! Good photographers are so pricey!!

At the end of class, our families were invited to be our "models". Charlie and John were great models for me!! See some of my favorite pictures below.

Since then, I've had some friends ask me to take pictures of their kids so who knows...maybe once I get better I can turn it into a business one day.....a lot of practice from now!! Any friends who are reading this....I'll do pictures for the experience/practice so let me know if you are interested in being my guinny pigs!