Photo Session

I was saying to a friend last weekend at a GTG that it's so hard to get photos of my daughter now. You look in her gallery and I have quite a few for each much up to about Month Nine-ish and then it tappers off. It's not for lack of trying, I just have a very mobile child now who does not like to sit still for photos. As soon as she seems me with the camera out, she comes crawling at me and wants to see her photo in the viewfinder, so it makes for a lot of close ups of noses and eyes. heh

Today though, when I walked down the hallway she was sitting, back against the wall eating cheerios and it seemed like a good photo op. I ran and grabbed my camera and these are a few of my favourite shots out of about twenty or so that I took.

Owen says she looks like me in this photo.

I did not mean to cut off her part of her head she just leaned in as I took the shot. heh

Tantrum Anyone?

At just over a year old, Twitchit has decided that if she does not like what you are doing, what you want her to do, she's going to screech, loudly. Or cry, either one, it just depends on her "mood". I have to say that the first few times I was like "This is ok, I can handle this" but has the last couple of weeks have passed, it gets more and more frustrating for me. I'm wondering what happened to my loveable, sweet little girl! A good example is from this morning. She had yogurt for breakfast, then toast. I was trying to wipe off her mouth and hands of butter and crumbs, but instead you'd think I was wiping acid on her by her reaction.

She still has her sweet moments, but the tantrums seem to stand out more now. My husband's solution to the tantrum "phase" is to ignore her. Do not give her attention when she's standing there screeching and she'll 'learn' it's not a good method to get our attention or to do and stop doing it. In theory it's a good idea I suppose, but not very practical when your toddler is kicking and screaming while you try and wipe her bum and change a smelly diaper. I also feel bad to ignore her when she's trying to communicate with me but can't, bc she can't talk past dada and mama.

I wondered if it was an attention issue, maybe I was not playing with her enough? So I've increased our playtime dramatically, leaving barely any down time for myself. All this has done is wear me out and not stop the tantrums.

I really think it's a combination of - teething her eye teeth, growing pains, and her inability to be able to communicate her needs to us. So I'll keep struggling through and hopefully, the tantrums will be less dramatic at some point.

I had an idea for a photo montage for my mom today, but Natasha was not in the "mood" so I only got a few, which I'm not 100% happy with. I'll have to wait until Owen is home to distract her or try again after her nap when she's hopefully in a better mood. I'd like to get 1 more of her just sitting about to open the book. I fondly remember the 6-7m age when she was quick to smile, easily amused and patiently enjoyed having her photo done. :D

Happy Birthday!

My parents are visiting right now, so I'm a bit late in posting these, but here are some of N's cake pictures from her First Birthday on Saturday;







Those balls between each swag? Pure fondant and Bug ate about 2 of them before everyone was done with their party picture taking. Yummm pure sugar! :-P

The actual Cake itself;

And lastly, this is as messy as she got eating it. It's made of fondant on the outside but there was loads of buttercream icing on the inside. She was so cute, just nibbling away at her piece of cake. heh