Eleda asked me to take her picture

She's so funny. Most days she whines for me not to take her picture, but the other day she was all over it. Here's the result:

More fun with leaves...

The day starts by surveying the breathtaking view of the leafy yard...

...then we start dissassembling the leaf pile with a rake...

...next we approach the photographer with our stunning blue eyes...

...and fall into the leaf pile with glee...

...we pose for the camera once again...

...and lastly we indicate that we have had enough of the papparazi (or polkadotsie, as Eleda calls it LOL).

Halloween 2009

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We decided to trick or treat in my mom & dad's neighbourhood. They live on the quietest little crescent, so we didn't have to worry about traffic, and just like when I was a little kid... there are so few kids that trick or treat around there that the haul is always impressive.



Here's my little lady with her pumpkin clippies and halloween tatoos.

We hadn't carved our pumpkin yet, so daddy got the ball rolling:

Lol.. he cut the hole so small, Leda's hand was the only one that could possibly have fit inside!

The dog wanted in on the action.

The house at the end of my parents street had this pumpkin up in early October and Eleda was OBSESSED with it. Every time we came to or left my parents house we HAD to drive by the giant pumpkin. Since we were going up to their door anyways, I figured she could touch it. Seriously, this think was her Elvis!

Our happy little trick or treating ducky.

Grandma Janet took her up to one of the last doors!

This was the end result of our cute little pumpkin!

And here's my pregnant belly in comparison to a giant pumpkin. Draw your conclusions.

The next day, Eleda put on her safari hat, stuck a sticker on her nose and demanded that I take her picture.

The many faces (ok, there's only two) of Ashton

I figured I am due to post some newer pics... these are over the last couple of days.

When Eleda was a baby, she rarely cried, so this whole colic thing with Ashton is really new to us. We have tried every suggestion we've been given and have found a few that work. Here is a face I'm all too familiar with:

But there are these beautiful moments, just every now and then, where he closes his eyes and is my quiet sleeping little prince.

Daddy was bouncing Ashton on his knee and Leda wanted in on the action. Then this happened. She loves him so much and shows him every day.

And last but certainly not least, who doesn't love baby feet?

Fun in the leaves

These shots were all taken over a few days playing in the leaves. Eleda didn't really get the whole "jumping" concept, but she was happy to pick them up and throw them in the air! I was actually quite impressed with so many of the shots that I couldn't narrow them down as well as I would have hoped, so please enjoy...

Wundermums first annual Halloween Party

Do you know how boring it is to be at home on modified bedrest? It's freaking boring. So I took the opportunity to plan a party for the kids of all my fellow Wundermums (http://www.wundermums.com/). We held it in the hall at my church and everyone brought something to eat. We split the bill on the hall rental and craft supplies, and every mom brought something for each kid to "trick or treat". I won't post pics of other people's kids without their permission (and let's face it, I'm not on bedrest anymore and now have 2 kids... no time to get permission!) so these are just a few of my little munchkin.





Daddy getting Eleda into her costume.





The cutest little ducky I've ever seen!

I made spiderweb black bean dip. Yummy!

Eleda the duck enjoying a chocolately treat.

The ever popular craft table.

My pretty lady

These shots are from this fall, I just felt the desire to snap away at my pretty little girl, and she was complying... for the most part.





Things took a turn for the worse here. I suppose we all have our limits.

And finally a rare shot of the two of us courtesy of daddy.

Autumn fun at the farm

We enjoyed a day at Ferguson's during their pumpkin festival, and then I went home and got to know my photo editing software a little better. This day was also my first really trying to shoot on my camera's manual setting (not by choice - my lens was stuck on manual focus and I couldn't figure that out, so the only way to get any kind of decent shot was on the manual setting).

A good example of focal B&W:

This is the first time Eleda ever got her face painted. She was so excited and sat very still while the pumpkin was painted - there were even sparkles on the black parts!

I over saturated the colour on this shot and blurred the edges a little:

And here I under saturated the colur.

After trudging through several inches of mud in the corn maze with daddy, we waited to ride the horse drawn wagon.

Daddy holding his little angel's hand on the wagon ride.

I'm in love with this shot. Something about the movement in her hair, the way the sunlight is hitting her face and those gorgous baby blues just makes this one speak to me.