Photo A Day - September - Week 3

Yes, I'm just trying to get caught up with the photo a day -

September 15 - The Boxes Are Here
The boxes arrived today and we're beginning the process of packing... It's already been interesting with Catherine deciding she likes to sit on flat boxes which makes it impossible to extract them from under her and tape them up so we can use them! This is why we're starting early!

September 16 - Up Close With A Dirt Bike
I got the opportunity to get up close with a dirt bike today... :)




September 17 - The Wind In Her Face
Catherine loves having wind blown in her face... sometimes Elizabeth will just blow in her face to make her laugh... Here Daddy is fanning a book in her face and she loves the feeling of the wind....




September 18 - Snuggles In Bed
Early morning snuggles in our bed for everyone...




September 19 - Decluttered
Our house is decluttered... anyone who knows what our house normally looks like with kiddie toys everywhere would be impressed... :p




September 20 - Admiring Her Sister's Artwork
Catherine is obsessed with Elizabeth's artwork... she loves looking at it... pointing at it... She even walks around holding it as if she's trying to pass it off as her own...




September 21 - Little Miss 16 Months
She was just like a doll when she was born and 16 month later, she's still a doll... a cheeky one... but she still so perfectly adorable.

Photo A Day - September - Week 2

I am sooo behind with the blogging... still managing to keep up the photo-a-day, but it's seriously hitting crazy stations around here getting ready for our move back to Adelaide and I've fallen a bit behind with the processing... Decided to take some time out tonight and try and catchup on some photos...

September 8 - Morning Ritual
A completely technically terrible photo (out of focus and all), but this photo speaks volumes of our mornings... both girls brush their teeth every morning now and Catherine is actually obsessed with her toothbrush (she likes to wander in and point at it 'cos she wants it)... and Elizabeth likes to brush her teeth with Catherine... she gets upset if Catherine brushes her teeth without her... It's drama city here some mornings!

September 9 - Checking the Mailbox
She thinks she's so clever... (oh and yes, this was from one of my first plays with the fish-eye)




September 10 - Press The Button
Auntie Thao came to visit us this weekend and came bearing the most wonderful gifts for all of us (thank you again Thao!). She got Elizabeth this book called "Press The Button", which is now a bedtime favourite... She just loves this book and makes Phan read it to her every night.




September 11 - Hanging With The Girls
One of only a handful of photos I got of Thao this weekend... The girls loved hanging out with her... (Elizabeth really did too, she just doesn't look impressed in this photo!)




September 12 - Kiddie Gamer
Elizabeth is getting good at playing games on her vtech console...




September 13 - Down By The Pier
I went to check out a lovely little spot today... it has the prettiest jetty I've ever seen (and the most awesome kids playground too!)... This has got to be another one of my favourite photos from this year.




September 14 - Custom Made Dresses
Our custom made dresses from Lillipops Designs arrived today... We designed them ourselves during a Back To School custom dress event that was run a couple of months ago. (And by "we", I mean Elizabeth and I... she picked the fabric and the style of dress and the belt to go with it... and we picked out a design for Catherine). They are awesome... I love, love, love how they turned out... and so do the girls... The dress is now Elizabeth's new favourite. They were so gorgeous, I was inspired to take the girls out for a minishoot them...

Photo A Day - September - Week 1

September 1 - First Day Of Spring
The days are warming up and you can feel spring is in the air...

September 2 - Happy Birthday to Me
If you missed the blog post about my awesome birthday, you can find all the details about my fantastic day here -




September 3 - Delicate Dancing
The big girl is going through a dress-ups and dancing phase... she loves pretending she's a ballerina...




September 4 - Happy Father's Day
A day to celebrate with Daddy today... We went for a walk down by the river and had a morning tea picnic which is where I took this photo...




September 5 - Catherine 1, Pasta 0
Someone got in the kitchen cupboard while I was doing the dishes...




September 6 - Simple Moments
One of Catherine's most favourite things is to lie on beds/mattresses... Must be a full size bed and not a cot... She will happily lie and laugh and giggle and just enjoy the comfy softness of a great big bed...




September 7 - Girlishness + Urban Grunge
Tried out something a little different from my normal open spaces, nature backdrop, sun-filled, backlit images... I really quite like the grungy feel of this wall...

Photo A Day - August - Week 4

And here's the roundup of last month...

August 22 - Round and Round The Garden
Catherine *loves* round and round the garden... she loves it when you do it to her and she loves doing it to others... Makes her so happy. Here's Elizabeth doing it to Catherine...

August 23 - Rainbow
This morning, Elizabeth spotted the most awesome rainbow on the way to kindy... It was huge and spanned the entire width of an oval that we pass every kindy day... So awesome... if we didn't have some where to be and if I hadn't been driving, I would have taken a photo... Elizabeth said she was going to do a drawing of a rainbow at kindy and I had planned on taking a photo of that... but she didn't get around to it... so I took a photo of the nearest rainbow like item to remind me of the beauty of that rainbow we saw today.




August 24 - Odd Socks
Odd socks seems to be a constant around here... I hate little children socks... so small, so easy to lose, impossible to find, impossible to match... Odd socks are the norm for Catherine...




August 25 - Cereal
10pm at night and I realised I hadn't taken a photo for the day... so randomly walked around the house looking for inspiration and decided to take a photo of this... :)




August 26 - Toddler
She's losing some of her chubby, chubby baby cheeks and looking more and more like a toddler these days... *sniff sniff*...




August 27 - My Hand Looks Good In Red
Catherine so wants to be like her big sister. So today while Elizabeth was drawing, Catherine wanted to draw too... so I got out some textas for her and she was drawing away happily in her highchair... I go and do some dishes and come back to find her hand like this! In non-washable texta! She had a bright pink tinged hand for a couple of days afterwards.




August 28 - The Talented Hopper
For some reason unbeknownst to me, Elizabeth insists on doing the most random things when we go on photo shoots... she will stand on one leg... jump.. pull weird faces... "Take a photo of my back, Mum!", she'll call out to me... I'll try and catch her in between her randomness to get those more "normal shots", but this photo is truly a classic example of what she's really like when I'm trying to take photos of her... and yes, that's a random weed flower in her hand she's insisting on holding while hopping...




August 29 - Tea
I am a sucker for pretty tea canisters... just the canisters... they don't actually hold any tea... I picked up these while I was out shopping today... I love them...




August 30 - The Fragrance of Jasmine
I love the smell of jasmine flowers...




August 31 - Bathtime Cheekiness
Fresh out of the bath and we're full of beans and cheekiness in this household...

Photo A Day - August - Week 2

August 8 - There Was A Small Child Here Stacking Plates...
She pottered away when she saw me approach with the camera... :p It was really cute, Catherine was taking all the plastic plates out and stacking them on the floor and then picked them up and put them back in the cupboard... So you'll just have to imagine and instead you get to see the inside view of my kitchen cupboard... :p I actually did take a decent photo today, but it was of something that I'm not quite ready to share with the world yet... maybe soon... :)



August 9 - Silly Faces
Catherine thinks it's hilarious to squish her face into plates at the moment...



August 10 - Kissable Pout
This photo makes me *melt*... I just adore her little pout and she looks so sweet in that little outfit... oh and that dreamy bokeh... loving my 50mm 1.4... :)



August 11 - Ta
Chu Phong is in town visiting us at the moment... Catherine was initially a bit uncertain about him... but he won her over by giving her some food... Here she is saying "Ta" while taking some breakfast cereal from him...



August 12 - Model's Own Pose
Took the girls out to the park this afternoon while our interstate visitors snoozed and had an afternoon nap... I love this dress on Elizabeth... pink and turquoise are my favourite colour combinations at the moment... This pose was completely her idea... She is so random... LOL...



August 13 - Sweet Talking Daddy
A day out shopping at Harbourtown... Phong did really well and bought the most out of all of us! Phan even bought more than me (at his favourite store, Ralph Lauren)... I scored a pair of shoes... completely different to the kind of shoes I was actually looking for (I need a casual walking shoe and couldn't find anything I liked). Towards the end of our shopping expedition, Elizabeth didn't want to walk anymore and managed to sweet talk Phan into carrying her around... she looks rather pleased with herself that she got her way doesn't she?



August 14 - Sunday Morning, Pajamas and a Blue Balloon
This is how our little miss looks in the morning... dishevelled bed hair... still in her one piece jumpsuit pajamas... and there's nothing like some balloon fun to start a Sunday morning...

Photo A Day - August - Week 1

Ahh, it's the start of another month... so here's the first week of August

August 1 - I Want To Break This...
Generally, I think I have a reasonably high tolerance for annoying, loud, repetitive noises. It just comes with the territory when you have small children. However, this toy recorder might just be the thing that tips me over the edge... Elizabeth got this from her pinata at her birthday last year, but for some reasons it's made a huge revival this week and I swear, if I hear that annoying high pitched noise again, I will probably find a way to accidentally hide it in the bin forever...

August 2 - Eclectic Fairy Ballerina
She got home from kindy and promptly changed into this miscellany of clothing and dressups... And proceeded to dance and sing... I love 4 year old randomness...





August 3 - My Grownup Newborn
After kindy we caught up with some friends at the park... and when we got home, I was pulling together the finishing touches for dinner and turned around and found her like this on the couch. Way too much excitement for one day...





August 4 - Afternoon At The Playground
Went to a different park this afternoon for something different to do... Catherine quite liked sitting on this bouncy giraffe thing...





August 5 - Oops, Dropped Something
Bath time and Catherine likes throwing things out of the bath... This photo taken without flash at about 6:30pm with just dodgy bathroom lighting. Taken using my new 50mm - ISO 6400, f/1.4, 1/250...





August 6 - Joyous Afternoon
Phan wanted me to take his car out for a spin this afternoon to feel how different it is after all the mods he's been doing to it recently... So we took a little drive over to a little park reserve I'd spied a few weeks ago and spent an enjoyable afternoon having some fun...





August 7 - Playing Trains
Crows vs Lions game playing in the background... and this is what Elizabeth, Catherine and Daddy were up to in our loungeroom this afternoon...

Photo A Day - July - Week 3

July 15 - Dad Did This To Me
Catherine dislikes trying to walk around in her one piece pajama jumpsuits... it's a hinderance, esp when she's trying to go fast (sometimes I think she's trying to run!). So Phan decided to fashion this funny little tail with the legs of her jumpsuit so she had her legs free to walk around as she wished... what a fashion statement...

July 16 - My Husband Is A Car Mod-ing Maniac
Phan has turned into somewhat of a car-mod-ing hoon lately... he's pulled apart doors, done stuff under the bonnet... and his latest project involved changes to the audio, and required pulling out the passenger seat so he could install the amp... he's crazy... Even Elizabeth surveyed the miscellany of bits and pieces laid out on the garage floor and said to him - "Did you put down this plastic so you could put your toys on it?"... LOL... even she knows they are his toys.




July 17 - Best Friends Forever
Elizabeth and her best friend Claire...





July 18 - This is Phi Phi
We've had Phi come and stay with us this week and he spent a day at her kindy with her... when they asked her to introduce him to the class she simply said "This is my uncle. His name is Phi Phi."...





July 19 - Oops, Almost Forgot!
First time I've almost forgotten my photo for the day... this is what time it was when I realised!





July 20 - Stepping Out
We spent some time at New Farm Park today and Elizabeth spent a lot of time walking over this suspension bridge to get to the slide.





July 21 - Our Toddler...
Our baby is growing up, as per yesterday's post... 14 months old... *sigh*...