to all the beautiful mums reading.
I got spoilt by the man and the boy. I got to splurge on a new (secondhand) lens (the tamron 28-75mm f/2.8) - I thought that was all I could expect but I found a suprise present when Shayne went to work last night. They gave me a Willow Tree figurine but my favourite part of the present was the card with Will's first 'scribble'. I'll treasure it forever.
My other present was getting a photo of Will and I:
This time 6 months ago I was in labour looking forward to meeting my baby. I can not believe how fast the time has gone - yet at the same time I can't remember my life without him.
William is now over 6 kilos in weight. He has started solids (loves apple and rice cereal, not a fan of pumpkin) and manages to make a lot of mess. He follows each mouthful of food with his fist and I'm never quite sure how much ends up in his mouth.
He is sitting really well and learning to move from sitting to tummy (well learning to control the movement, he can throw himself down at the moment). Creeping on his tummy is slowly turning into crawling on all fours and he like to get up on his toes and hands and balance as well. We have the baby gate up to keep him and the dog apart.
He had his first swing at the playground a little while ago and thought it was great fun.
We are fortunate that in the last week or two he has learnt to self settle and goes down for sleeps happily and sleeps for an hour or two. Heaven after taking 30-40 mins to settle for a quick 30 minute catnap. He still wakes for a feed (or three) overnight but I secretly enjoy the cuddles.
Being a mum has been the best experience I have ever had and I can't wait to see him grow up.
Will has been on the move for a couple of weeks now. He started with commando crawling and now switches between crawling on all fours and creeping on his tummy. It's much faster on his tummy - especially on our floorboards - and he really gets around. We have had to babyproof the loungeroom and put up a baby gate to keep him out of the kitchen.
A mummy shot of him crawling.
Enjoying a book. He was looking at the fire engines (taking after daddy already).
We caught up with Sharon and her kids and I got a quick chance to try out her lens. Will cracked it right after this shot so we packed up. We will have to try again another day to get a nice shot of the boys together.
and kinda lost my phojo... :(
I've been busy with some other projects lately so haven't been doing much photography. Will has been keeping me super busy as well.
Project Number One: Learning to knit
...and making Will a beanie (for photos of course!).
I found a pattern book at lincraft and some gorgeous blue wool and set to. I had a lot of trouble with the ribbing (I lose concentration really easily - I'll blame sleep deprivation) but eventually got there. The pattern didn't state a size but it was pictured on an older baby so I figured it would fit. It does - just!
First wear though and we left it behind at someone's house. I'm making another one though (different style) in a bigger size and maybe a pair of mittens to match.
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It's meant to have the brim folded up but then it is a bit too small really and slips off his head. I had to distract him with the lens cap because he was over photos already...
The next one in progress:
Project Number Two: Making Will a quilt.
I made a quilt (very basic) back in textiles in high school. I haven't done much sewing since then but have been wanting to make a quilt for Will since I was pregnant (but didn't find out the gender). I had a picture in my head of what I wanted for a boy (red.white.blue / dots.stripes.checks) but hadn't got around to sourcing fabrics etc. Then a new patchwork shop opened in our local shopping strip - I wandered in and there on the wall was the quilt in my head. The only addition was some blocks with ships on it. They had a kit - so I was sold!
These are the fabrics I'm using:
I'll update with a progress pic later this week.
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Just a quick post to show off my beautiful boy:
After his first swim:
Today was a beautiful Autumn day so to make the most of we went for a walk at Westerfolds Park with Will and Bella. I took my camera (of course) so the walk took twice as long as normal because I kept stopping for photo opportunities. The icecream stop at the cafe probably didn't help either.
Going for a cross processed/vintage style with the PP. This was my April PAD for day 8.
Reflections of me
Even weeds make worthy subjects:
I've taken up a flickr challenge to take a photo a day (see photo album in side bar). I'm using it as motivation to take more photos (do I really need external motivation for that??) and a chance to work on my processing - specifically my black and white conversions.
I *heart* black and white but have never known how to convert properly (I was guilty of simply choosing greyscale or desaturate and ending up with flat, grey 'black and whites'). I am trying a few different methods at the moment and finding my best results are coming from converting in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and then playing around with contrast layers and blending modes in photoshop to try to get them to look how I picture them in my head.
I'm hoping by the end of this month I will have a consistent 'recipe' that I can tweak as needed. That should help speed up my photo processing a ton.
Anyway, here are some shots from April so far:
My loyal readers/viewers (all uh, 5 of you!) might have noticed I have beena bit slack in updating recently. So here is a random assortment of photos from the last few weeks that I have just processed:
Will and his uncle:
(with a concrete texture overlay).
My entry for the Self Portrait EB beginners challenge:
My entry for the Portrait EB beginners challenge (3rd place). Shayne at the holiday house:
Some more of my faves from my time surfing around flickr. It's a time consuming addiction.
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