Category: house

I love pictures of people. I love flipping through other people’s photos and studying faces, backgrounds and anything to do with people living life. Since I’ve started taking more photos, I’ve found myself placing more and more value on the moments I capture and of the people that I love. I fight the battle of what to do with my images afterwards….that first year photo book is slowly coming along.

I recently created an area in Maggie’s room of a collage of pictures for The Little Miss to enjoy. As time rolls on and I snap more pictures, we’ll add them or trade them out because it is apparent that she loves having them to look at, making her room all the more homey and totally hers. In all honesty, it makes her room feel more connected to the rest of the house, where we’ve got family photos sprinkled about. Her favorite shots, by far, are the ones that include Barry. She shouts “PAPA” every time we walk into her room and points frantically as if he is going to come alive in the images!

They aren’t framed in matchy-matchy frames and they aren’t even symmetrical (although I did get a level out to put them up!), but they are photos that Maggie can look at and do as she pleases. The faces and places are familiar and I’m hoping that they’re a reminder that she is so loved by so many.

Speaking of looooove, Maggie has been loving her baby dollies more and more these days and it is simply the sweetest thing. We loaded her baby (Valarie) into a little backpack and Maggie wore her around and rocked her for a while. I’d like to think that she was able to make the connection to me wearing her in the Ergo. She is a pretty serious little mama to her babies, but if something better comes along….poor babies have to take a second seat. It is amazing to me how innate taking care of something is for her; however, for all the sweetness that she shows for her baby, we’ve got a ways to go with loving Sydney gently. Girlfriend just loves to tug on Syd’s rolls and bop her on the head, not cool at all.

And because I know you were wondering what those two were up to roughly a year ago, I’ll leave you with this little gem.

You know, because I love photos of people….and my dog.

 

Remember when we decided to fill in our pond that we inherited when we bought our house? Well, this weekend was a Part 2 of Project Pond Be Gone! I became BFFs with my wheelbarrow, Barry his shovel, Sydney uninterupted naps, and Maggie, that girl, she went and fell in love with dirt. We’ve started referring her to Construciton Sal because she became so interested in the work process.

It has been a slow-going process with lots of loads of rocks getting moved from one place to another and many more shovels full of dirt, but I think Project Pond Be Gone has been a success thus far. I’ve learned my lesson in that home improvement projects are never, ever easy and assuming so is just silly.  Maggie also has slowly figured out that the best place to be is right where the action is and tends to stand next to Barry bellowing what sound like orders to shovel faster.

Even when we plopped her down on the other side of the “pond” with a bowl of chocolate zucchini cake and milk, she continued to want to be involved in the work process, giving us cheese-ball smiles and squawking as we shuffled by hauling big rocks. Like I said, Construction Sal seems to be a fitting name for her, especially when she was wearing one knee pad around and ‘helping’ to shovel.