Saturday, November 19, 2011

The Calm Before The Storm

The next six weeks will bring Thanksgiving, Vita's birthday, Christmas and New Years... but it has been nice to have some downtime between the excitement of Anabelle's birthday and Halloween two weeks ago, and the upcoming holiday season.

Last weekend I used a "groupon" to get a really good deal on a professional family photo shoot. I just got the proofs tonight, and some of them came out really well. There are no family shots where we are ALL smiling, but three out of four is pretty good. (Excuse the photographer's logo at the bottom right, that will be gone when we get the official set of pictures.)


Also, this is a beautiful shot of the girls.


OK, now back to the non-professional photos, mostly taken on phones.  Here's Vita with a lady bug.  She let this lady bug crawl around on her for over a half an hour, watching intently.


Here's Vita with a friend at some one's birthday party in a park.  It's really cute to watch the social interactions of the kids become more meaningful, and to watch as real friendships start to develop.


And finally, here are the two girls in their room playing.  Strangely, Anabelle is usually the one doing the tackling and Vita is usually the one getting tackled.  She doesn't seem to mind.