vote for k...

karys is in a contest that a local photographer is having. it's an amazing eyes contest. please go to melissa macdonald's blog (http://melissamacdonald.com/blog) and vote for k! (she's letter "V" in case you don't recognize her ;)

-t

the girl can talk...

karys surprises me with her vocabulary. the girl can talk. besides the basic
mama and dada she can also say:

eat

up

stop

amen

please

all done

thank you

apple

and a few more i can't remember right now. she also know a few simple sentences "what you doing?" and "what that?" love this kid...

found one...

i found a photo of k and her daddy (and kanaiya) at the apple orchard. guess i had enough battery power for one photo. so look dill, you made the blog ;)


-ty

app, app, app...

today dill and i took karys (and kanaiya) apple picking. my mom though it was silly to take a one year old apple picking b/c in her words "she's not really going to enjoy it". but she did. karys (and kanaiya) had a blast. they picked apples (and ate them) and went on a hay ride (with well it was actually just a ride b/c there was no hay). when we got back to my parents house karys told mom-mom that she picked "apps" (her way of saying apple). see mom-mom, told you she would have fun. don't underestimate K!

of couse i didn't charge my camera when we went so there are no photos from karys' first apple picking trip but i took her apple picking again with my friend michele and her two cuties and here are a few photos from that excursion...






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this time last year...

this time last year i was (not so) patiently waiting for k to arrive. today, i am running around the house watching her bang on doors, take ALL of her toys out of the toy baskets, pour food on the floor, crawl under the table and high chair to get her sippy cut that she dropped, and open and close cabinets (open, close, open, close, open, close...) and this is all before 9am. this kid has energy! if i would have known then what i know now i would have enjoyed the extra day of (uninterrupted) sleep.

-ty

goodys...

one of K's ad's came out today. it's a goody's sale paper . check it out...

you can also see it at http://www.shopgoodys.com/etabs/091108-092108/10.html

-ty

p.s. happy birthday cleo!

(a bunch of) photos

since i haven't posted pictures in while here are (a bunch of) photos:

with "pop-pop"
at the children's museum of manhatten
at the parkat mom-mom & pop-pop's housethe elmores we bemore photos to come...

-ty

our little baby model...

k has been doing some modeling. it's funny that my baby is a model. well, not really funny but it seems strange/odd/unreal to see her in "print". for awhile people have suggested that we "get her into modeling" but i never really thought anything of it. of course dill and i think she's cute (and photogenic) but she's our baby and we're supposed to think that. but one day (when i was supposed to be writing my dissertation--i'm such a procrastinator--but that's another story...) i googled child modeling agencies and found the names/address of a few reputable agencies. so i sent in a few of k's photos to four agencies. within a week two agencies called us in for an "interview". we went to the first one and i really liked them so we "signed" with them. since then k has done 8 jobs. most of the stuff is for the winter/christmas holiday season so it hasn't been printed yet. but i just got a copy of a earnshaw's magazine which she was in (it's a trade magazine so it's not available on newsstands). she was up for the cover but didn't make it :( but she still got photo inside the magazine so i'm still a very proud mama. here are the out takes from the shoot...

dill and i joke about how she's been working since she was 7 months old (and we both thought we started working early). dill's other joke is "maybe now she can afford to send herself to a private college"...

-ty

another cloth diaper giveaway...

i didn't win the last cloth diaper giveaway. but here's another one maybe i'll win this time. as they say, "if first you don't succeed..." green acre diapers are adorable so wish me luck...
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thinking about cloth diapering...

i'm thinking about using cloth diapers (even though i said i didn't think i ever would--guess this may be another "my plan vs. reality" switch). baby cheapskate is offering a cloth diaper give-away contest. check it out (b.t.w. baby cheapskate is a great site). if i win it will make my decision to change to cloth diapers easy. i hope i win...