embrace the camera.

It's Thursday.

So I'm embracing the camera yo.

Please note that I am not flipping the bird. It's hard trying to get an almost 3 month old to look toward (or in the general vicinity)  of the camera.

I don't think she's feeling it.
And a "family embrace".

Yup.  That looks about right.
It's almost the long weekeeeeend! Yay yaaaaaaaaa.

best friends.

Shaun tells Bean "you're my best friend" all the time.

(He'll also throw in a "and mummy is my best friend too" when he thinks I can hear)

Bean is always the chattiest with Shaun.

She chatters like crazy when Shaun comes home and asks her about her day.

Their conversation makes me smile without fail.  

I hope she turns into a big daddy's girl.

I hope they stay best friends.

At least until she reaches her teens and Shaun has to bring out the shotgun to scare off the boys.

I kid... kind of.

chinny chin chin.

Oh hi, it's just me and my chins. 

My jiji and baba seem to be slightly concerned about how chunky I am.

Clearly they have forgotten that my mama looked like this as a baby. 

Mama says it's a pain in the bum to have to wash all of my neck layers, but it's important that she does this, because otherwise I start making "boob cheese" under there. (ie. Boob juice drips and accumulates in the neck folds and starts to get crusty/stinky. Delicious.) 

Even though mama sometimes complains, she still says the chins are super cute and she wants to gnaw on them. But she doesn't. Phew. 

I'm not so sure though. I don't think I'll appreciate these pictures very much when I'm a cool teenager, and I'm worried that mama will use them to blackmail me... Maybe I'll spill some juice on her computer or something and crash her hard drive 

while I can still get away with it. 

***Note to Jellybean. I have backed up everything so as not to lose a single one of your photos (so tough). And yes, I may use some as blackmail one day if you ever try to give me attitude. Love mama. 

embrace the camera.

One favourite past time of mine is reading blogs. 

There are SO many blogs out there now a days, and many of them are great, but once in a while I come across one that's so interesting and well written that I can't stop reading it.

(Thus making me feel stalker-ish after a while...)

That blog for me right now is 

the anderson crew

This blog has made me laugh and cry, and want to have a ba-jillion kids (And by "ba-jillion", I mean more than 2.  Probably giving Shaun a heart attack right about now).

It also makes me want to adopt.  

Not that this is a decision that one makes on a whim, but I've always said (not out loud maybe, but to myself) that I would adopt if I was unable to have children of my own.

Turns out that I can, but this blog has brought that thought back into my head.

(If he wasn't before, Shaun is definitely having a heart attack now).
It's just a wonder... or a ponder... 

Okay, I'm digressing from today's point.

What I wanted to do today was 

embrace the camera

Every Thursday, Emily "embraces the camera" by posting pictures of herself with her loved ones.  I'm rarely without my camera (or more recently, my iPhone since balancing a DSLR and infant is near impossible), but 95% (maybe more like 98%) of my time is spent behind it. I agree with Emily about getting in front of the camera once in a while to leave memories with my family/friends, so this is a great incentive for me to get in the frame once in a while. Here we go.

Ya.  She likes to sleep. Just like her mama and papa. *fyi - the Anderson's blog is down for a makeover tonight (Aug. 23) so check it out tomorrow.  It's pretty awesome.  

weekend bit and pieces.

Participating in some girl talk.
Loving up papa and doing a little dance.
Sleeping makes a happy Bean.
Telepathic conversations and eskimo kisses with Uncle Glenny at brunch.
Ice cream and boardwalk at the beaches.
Brunch at home, and spotting a little friend on a walk around the neighbourhood.

Another happy weekend come and gone.
I hope we get a few more weeks of summer weather...

jellybean problems.

Man, I'm sooooooo hungry...

I'm pretty sure that this is where the food comes out...

Hm... maybe if I stare at it intently enough...

Or maybe if I try to gum it...

Nope... kinda sad now.

Oh that Bean.  She does love eating.

the bean gets shot(s).

She got her first immunizations this past week...

 Wheee! I'm having such a good day! I suspect nothing!!!

 I have a bad feeling about this place...

Trying to hide. 

 ...and the calm before the storm.

Mum was too frazzled to take a picture during the shots.

 I'm sad now... lets not do that again (little does she know...)

Tired little Bean on the car ride home.

& we get to do it all again in 2 months.