PAD - February 10 - Bathtime Love

After going through a phase of having baths together, then having baths separately, they are now back to having baths together again... Now that Catherine is sitting quite well in the bath, she doesn't hog the bath like she used to when I had to lie her down in the water... Poor Catherine does have to put up with a lot from her big sister though who likes to shampoo her little sister's hair, pour water over her hair/head (and into her eyes! She doesn't like that a lot!), sing ditties while washing her arms, legs, ears with bubbles... and generally just be in her face the whole time! She is mostly quite tolerant and even laughs and smiles at Elizabeth, but towards the end, she does just crack it and just yell in a tone that just implies "Get me out of here! Elizabeth's being annoying!"

6:30am - Talking Over Breakfast (Video)

Her first word is "Dadadada"... She started saying it a few days ago, but yesterday ramped up the frequency of it a lot (starting at 2:30am!)... She's a funny little chatterbox...

More SOOCs

These are for Em and Thao :)

I should have done a pullback shot to show my setup, but basically, it was just a chair with a big piece of black fleece (that I bought specifically to use as a backdrop) under the pergola (where the natural light is better than in the house)... It was actually overcast and bucketing down with rain on this day, so I was struggling to get decent light. Shot at f/7.1, 1/320, ISO 640.





I converted this shot to black and white because I found the blue mats way too distracting and overpowering in colour... I think the b&w conveys way more mood than the colour version. Shot without flash (in whatever natural light I could muster coming in through the sliding doors), f/4.0, 1/250, ISO 3200. Note also, I had to take about 30 shots to get this one... the moving, exuberant baby was a bit hard to capture... she alternated between sitting and waving her arms around in the air frantically and bum shuffling across the floor...

PAD - February 9 - The Demise of Lilium Asiatic

I got given some lillies as a thank you for taking some photos of a newborn baby boy last week and I thought I would do something a little out of the box with them...

PAD - February 8 - Entwined

Elizabeth's pink champagne anthurium that she bought on New Years Day to (quote) "brighten up her room" is still alive... :)

PAD - February 7 - Mummy Parasol, Baby Parasol

We are confirmed for a photoshoot with Sheye Rosemeyer in March... I am soooo excited! So I have started thinking about the styling for our family photoshoot and I came across these lovely lace parasols and decided I wanted to have them as a prop in our photos. They are absolutely gorgeous and Elizabeth thinks they are so pretty. I bought them from Parasols by Duval who had the best customer service, and the best price... Ordered late Thursday night, here Monday morning... awesome!

PAD - February 6 - Bum Shuffler

She's on the move... When on her tummy she goes backwards despite all her best efforts to go forward... Then she cries and get frustrated. When she's sitting she's a much happy camper and she shuffles slowly forward and can spin around in a circle... Today she manage to shuffle on her bum from one side of the room to the other (it's about 2 metres)... Took her about half an hour, and she got distracted by random objects and toys along the way... but she got there.

She's quite a contrast to Elizabeth who never went backwards on her tummy (she developed this rolling technique early on to get to stuff and then just commando crawling forward after that) and the thought of bum shuffling never even crossed her mind. Funny how our kids, though from the same mould, can be so different...