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Self-portraits. It's supposed to be self-portraits. So far I've taken...zero self-portraits. But my four-year-old does pretty well. We had the ISO jacked way up and a pretty slow shutter speed. He totally gets the 'just push the button a tiny bit' thing to focus. And he knows to look after taking a few to see if they're 'clear' or 'fuzzy'. I'm guessing he'll do most of the shots of me but it's fun...until little sister wants to try. Not so much.

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10.29.2008

It was almost 60degrees today so we went outside to paint two of our pumpkins. There was a lot of "What does red and purple make?" questions. End the end, we just had two very colorful pumpkins and a mess.

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10.28.2008

Sick of looking at my kids? I sure am. I'd really like to get my lens on some other faces! So I went for a backside today. We went to a little hometown pumpkin "patch" but no one was around so we just wandered for a bit and took a few shots. Came home pumpkinless. I used an OTSS action on this, love her b&w conversions!

2fer

Sure not to be the last 2fer post, here's Sunday and Monday...
Here we have my kids' reaction to the first Iowa snow. There had been wind advisories all day and suddenly it was snowing. The kind of snow that is blown so hard it goes completely horizontal. It was immediately deemed a blizzard ... so all on their own they barricaded the front door! Have I really over dramatized the Iowa winters so badly that they think we need to batten down the hatches at the first glimpse of snow?



And today's shot is from a quickie after-dinner run outside to get some pre-Halloween shots of the costumes before we're so into the candy that their eyes can't focus well enough to even look at the camera. Both of them were asking for coats, to which I replied, "That's what Halloween is about in Iowa...". Okay, maybe the blizzard thing really is my fault:

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10.25.2008

When I first started 'getting into' photography, I loved getting my kids by this window for shots and now it's kind of an 'eh' place. But I still love getting good shots of their great eyelashes!

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The Ring of Fat. The Fat Ring.
I put on the pregnant ring today.
When I was pregnant with Bradyn, I went out and splurged on a really pretty band and lost it within weeks because I bought it so big. I went a month or two without a ring at all, terrified that they'd have to cut my regular ring off because my fingers were bound to get so swollen and fat. Then Brian bought me this band for Christmas (or was it my birthday?). There are times he really pulls out some sentimentality and thoughtfulness and that was one of those times.
So I wore it with Ellie was well. I look for it in those early newborn pics of both kids and I'm happy I'll have it on (if I don't lose it...) with this one too!

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10.23.2008

Not a bad view.