Category: 6 Month Portraits

The end of the day comes quickly around here, we’re often scurring around trying to do jammies, Special Time, books, teeth, and clean up from dinner at the same time. The nights when we slow it down or are ahead of schedule are the absolute best. Our yard provided a way to relax tonight as the dinner dishes sat, Barry trimmed some shrubs and Maggie did wind sprints around Audrey. This picture represents the feeling that Audrey has for her sister….I took a ton of photos and this is how most of them look tonight. Full of joy. 

Single parenting is not for the weary. Barry went on his annual dude-hike with some of his friends and I was at home with our little chickens. We had a splendid weekend, but I was thankful to see Barry step through the door this evening. He fell asleep while reading to Maggie, so I haven’t even had a chance to touch-base with him. I got to put Audrey to sleep tonight twice, without trying to respond to Maggie or Sydney’s needs. While I held her in my arms the first time she dozed off, she started laughing to herself about something that she’d been dreaming about. She’s always been such a vivid dreamer, I think. She must have only been a few weeks old when we went to visit my mom and dad and she took a four hour nap in my dad’s arms – he didn’t put her down the entire time – and he claimed that she was responding to her dreams even then. Tonight, as she laughed in my arms, her little dimple kept showing up as the smile stretched across her lips and into her cheeks. I have no way of proving it, but I’d guess that she was dreaming about playing Peek-a-Boo with Maggie. 

This face. Those teeth. Getting a picture of her with her mouth closed these days is next to impossible. She wants to talk and share her thinking ~ at a high-pitched sound. She squeals, whines and yells, but the second that she gets ‘noticed’ by one of us, she becomes a bucket of smiles. I love her so.