Photo Obsession

In a little over a week we will have a 3 year old!!!!  I am really loving Natalie's age right now! She is still sweet and loving, but growing to be so independent. It's a lot of fun to see her grow up, which is going way too fast. Of course she has her defiant moments and the looks she gives...oh my goodness!

Aubrey on the other hand, ugh!  That's all I really have to say about her!  She is really challenging us lately with her whining and crying all the time!  She can be a big instigator in the arguments with her sister. Aubrey also likes to push Natalie, which is kind of funny to watch, but it's not the right thing to do. She is also into EVERYTHING!!!!  Whenever you turn around, she is into something else. Telling her 'NO' doesn't seem to do anything, slapping her hand just makes her start her 'drama cry' and she's back into whatever you told her 'no' about anyway. I don't know if she's teething or what, but she seems to cry/whine more than she is happy. Dinner time is another battle!  Lately she has been really picky and doesn't want to eat meat unless it's sausage and really only seems interested in carbs!  She's very much into feeding Rusty, which he loves and we hate!  She is just something else. It also doesn't help that she doesn't say many words at all! I can really only understand 'more', 'hi', 'bye', 'sister', 'that', and a few of the regulars like mama, dada, etc.

Of course our house is a little (or a LOT) obsessed with the Disney movie, Frozen! Natalie talks about it all the time and everything is about Frozen or Queen Elsa and Anna! If you ask her a question, it doesn't even have to pertain to the movie and her answer somehow relates your question to the movie!  After Natalie got her Queen Elsa dress from Auntie Amanda, she of course wants to wear it often!  My friend, Cassie, saw that one of her friend's on Facebook took a Queen Elsa inspired photo and she told me I should try to do the same thing. We had the perfect snowfall the other day and even though it was cold, Natalie braved the freezing temps for a minute for me to shoot some quick picks. I think they turned out awesome (I'm not biased at all)!!!

My friend, Melissa, crocheted the girls the cutest beanies!  So, of course I had to take some photos of them in those, too!

Bobby laughs at me because he says I take pictures of the girls every day that I am home with them. That is not really true, but lately, I agree I have been a little camera-happy!  Maybe it's because I haven't had many photo sessions with other families because of the cold weather. I do have 2 coming up, so that will save my girls from having to be my guinea pigs! :)

On Wednesday since we had all the snow, I stayed home with the girls and decided to curl Natalie's hair. It turned out beautiful, but fell out pretty quickly since I didn't put any product in it since it was a spur of the moment thing and I didn't want to have to wash all that junk out! So, again, I took more pictures :)

Of course with Valentine's Day coming up, I snuck in a quick (yet painful) shoot with the girls today. My girls have not been very good listeners today so I should not have pushed the picture taking, but since I have the day off and our weekend is busy, plus Natalie's party is the following weekend, it was really my only shot!  Luckily I was able to get a couple good shots (in my opinion) even though Aubrey was the one that wanted nothing to do with the camera today!  Thankful for Photoshop! Natalie has been awesome with the picture taking lately! Bribing helps :)

Photo Bomber!

I love the picture above, but below is a before/after to show what I really got while I was taking pictures!  Thank you, Photoshop!  I'll spare you all the other outtakes! 

Happy early Valentine's Day!