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Just had to post a couple of my fav kid pics from the most recent professional photos we had done. I love this company, they're super expensive but they come to your home and do a great job. Since David isn't so good at going places, sitting still or not throwing fits, the whole coming to your house and snapping like mad really works out for us. Plus I have gorgeous kids so really, I should have someone who's a better photographer than me showing them off. Enjoy the baby lovin'!

So pregnancy has totally zapped my scrapping mojo, I think, but I did make this one in the last couple months to round out a shutterfly book I made. I don't know what it is about Wheel that David loves, but he doesn't miss a night if he can help it. Actually, I'm ok w/ that b/c he's actually starting to repeat the letters that come up on the screen, so I figure it's somewhat educational. And it doesn't drive me out of my mind to watch w/ him, so that's always a plus. Credits are on my DST gallery, should you be interested.

Poor David, we were up at 5:30am today (well he was, I was up at 5) to make it to the hospital by 6am to register for his frenulectomy. That's where he gets the frenulum (the little flap of skin between the tongue and lower jaw) snipped, b/c he is tongue tied. His ENT was afraid it was interfering with speech development, so snippity snip. As you can see, he was not happy to wait an hour and 15 min past his scheduled time (we got stuck behind a kid getting ear tubes), despite the nice oral sedative that made him act like a little drunk baby. You'll also notice that toddler hospital gowns are no less forgiving in the butt department, although baby butts look much cuter in them. All is well, there are no stiches and his frenulum was cut all the way through. We were home by 9:30am. Guess I better call and make that follow up app.

If some of you don't know my newest hobby, it's called digital scrapbooking, or digiscrapping for short. I've always liked the idea of scrapbooking, but couldn't stand the idea of A) cutting pictures that you may not have doubles of and possibly ruining forever and B) having loads of scrap crap just laying around. I have enough clutter to deal w/ already. But digiscrapping eliminates those things, assuming you use digital pictures, which I do. You can always open the pic as a copy and keep the original saved somewhere else. There's also the added benefit of being able to "touch up" the picture, or in my case completely change the way I look :) Digiscrapping has the added benefit of enabling my freebie addiction, and occasionally my contest addiction, as most of the digiscrap stuff I download is free. So it's a cute, cheap hobby. Can't do better than that. This layout is one I did for a contest at a digiscrap website; as you can see David was not h...

but dang it if David doesn't look super cute in the Pooh costume Aunt Courtney got him.

Ok, so he's a big one year old now. Still my baby. And insanely photogenic. He must get that from Matt. This was taken just a few weeks ago in Sept. Perhaps I will periodically post a few pics, you'll just have to wait and see....