Emskyrooney

I've been cheating on my husband lately.  When he crashes on the couch after LP goes to bed I say "adios" and run downstairs to my lovely new sewing room.  I fold and refold all my fabric (and will show you some glamour-shots of my wonderful fabric closet soon!) and hum along to the purr of my sewing machine... I ogle my shiny scissors all lined up on their magnetic strip and admire my spools of thread, organized by color on their rack.  It's mine!  ALL MINE!!! Yup, I'm a sewing nerd. In all of my excitement I've started several new projects and am hoping to finish up some things to share with you soon.  Here's a quickie though that I whipped up a few weeks ago: I made this t-shirt for LP out of an old t-shirt that had gotten too small on me thanks to my mom-bod.  The size small tees I wore in college just don't fit any more, surprise surprise.  So I cut a few up and sized them down to fit the little man. All over the blog world people are doing FABULO...

to my four Valentines: my little guy, my big guy, my lovebugs, my snuggle puppies, I love you all!

This weeks I ♥ Faces contest theme, celebrating the first birthday of I ♥ Faces is "Best Face Photo."  The challenge is to enter the photo you love the best that was taken in either December, 2009 or January 2010.  My parents surprised me with a fabulous 35mm portrait lens for Christmas and I snapped a few great pics of Little Paul with my brother, his Uncle Nelson.  I absolutely love this shot of two of my favorite guys with their matching hair-dos and facial expressions! Be sure to go to I ♥ Faces to check out the other entries!

This weeks I ♥ Faces contest theme is "Pets."  I have tons of hysterical photos of Gabby being Gabby but thought I'd share a photo I took of our other dog, Socks, for a change. Be sure to go to I ♥ Faces to check out the other entries!

This weeks I ♥ Faces contest theme is "Candids."  I have tons of great photos of Gabby being candid but not too many candid photos of people- will have to work on that!  Here's one of my brother Nelson and his girlfriend though that I took last summer- I'd say it captures Nelson's personality pretty well! And just for kicks here are some candid shots of Gabby playing ball at the pool that same weekend: Be sure to go to I ♥ Faces to check out the other entries!

This weeks I ♥ Faces contest is "Contemplative Week."  I thought this picture of LP and Papa L was perfect- they were watching Papa L kick his feet in the pool and both have such serious looks on their faces... The non-judged category this week is "Pets" so I thought I'd share one of my funnier photos of Gabby attaching the garden sprinkler: Be sure to go to I ♥ Faces to check out the other entries!

This weeks I ♥ Faces contest is "Feet Week."  I've taken a lot of pictures of Little Paul's feet as I think they're adorable but I knew immediately which picture I wanted to enter. These are the feet of both of my babies.  Little Paul's tiny toes and Gabby's (the dachshund)feet too.  Be sure to go to I ♥ Faces to check out the other entries!

Popping on to say that LP gained 2 lbs in the past 3 weeks!  If I was any good at math at all I'd tell you what percentage of his body weight that is... Let's just say that I'm super glad that I don't gain weight that quickly (although I'd be THRILLED to be able to lose it at that rate!)....  He was almost 13 lbs at his 6 month checkup and is now just under 15 lbs.  He's still barely in the 5th percentile for height and weight (meaning that he's smaller than 95% of the other kids his age out there) but c'est la vie! Snapped a few pics (me??  with a camera in my hands???  shocking!) of him playing with Gabby in the backyard...   Enjoy! "mmmm... You taste like sweet potato!" "yeah, that's the spot- scratch my ear right there!" "Here Gabby, I'll stretch those jowls out even more for you!" "Babies are boooooring...."

After Little Paul my second favorite thing to take pics of are the dogs- Mostly Gabby because she does such funny things.....  This weeks I ♥ Faces contest is for photos of pets so I knew I had to enter! Unlike with LP it took me about 2 seconds to decide which pet photo I wanted to submit- I've always thought this was one of the best photos I've taken of the Gabster:   Head on over to www.iheartfaces.com to join in on the fun or to check out the other entries this week!

No, not THAT time of the month!  Photo shoot time of the month!  I took about twice as many photos of LP this month and spent more than twice the amount of time editing them.  Here are a few of my faves,; as always, you can head over to Flickr to see them all!  As you'll see from the photos LP has recently discovered that he can use his hands to put things in his mouth to suck on- fun! (He's also figured out that he can use his hands to yank Mommy's hair and ears when she's burping him, and to swat at Mommy's arm if she happens to look away from him while he's nursing... It won't be long til he figures out how to pull the dogs' ears I'm sure!) mmm... tasty! This is a face he makes quite frequently- I'm so glad I caught it on camera! I'm trying to be more careful about getting pictures of things I want to remember...  Right now his hair is in a pretty funny place- he's got some little bald spots and some spots where the hair is very thin ...