Katharine Elizabeth Photography {the blog}

Little Miss Finley is 6 months old.  But she has been sitting up since she was 5 months old.

I can’t prove it, but I think she might be a Super Baby in disguise.

In veeerrrrry cute disguise…

(does that petittskirt not make you just want to keel over from the cuteness?)

Finley came to her session with her doting Dad…

… a few extremely cute outfits …

… and her brother and cousins in tow.

If I had to pick her chief Super Baby Power, I’d say it’s definitely wrapping everyone around her cute, little finger.

I’m putting my photo editing on hold over the long holiday weekend, but I have to quick share one image.

At the end of this family’s session, I asked the mom and dad if I could take a picture of just the two of them … and wow, am I glad I did:

Attractive much? …  jeez louise!

You’ll be happy to know that they are both as nice and funny as they are handsome and perfectly cute together.

So, if you do the math, that means they are very nice and very funny.

I happen to know this 4-year-old and 6-year-old personally.

And they are good, good kids.

Full of spunk and personality.

I couldn’t have asked for more cooperative, game-for-anything kids during our session.  Thanks you two!

Okay, I just got home from a session to quick dump my images onto my PC and put my gear away before running out again.

But I had to quick show these two pics:

These were our last two images of the morning — shortly after this sweetie pie made an outfit change — and they totally stuck out from the others as I saw them loading on the PC.

You wanna know why?

Because I just watched the movie My Girl* on TV last night and I love the Vada Sultenfuss character in that movie.  I was 14 years old when that movie came out and I wished I was Vada Sultenfuss.  Badly.

And now, doesn’t this cutie-pie remind you of Vada in the movie?  With the sunny blonde hair and the funky clothes and the sweet, sweet face?

She totally does.

I love it.

*My Girl ranks in my top 10 of  “always makes me cry” movies, by the way.  It’s a short list that includes the likes of Steel Magnolias, Forrest Gump, and The Notebook.  I can’t watch any of those movies without a little stack of Kleenex next to me on the couch.

Link to (later) full session post here.

Youzers, May is a busy month at our house.

But in the good way.

My older kiddo (also known as the Toothless Wonder)…

… he turned seven (and that is lemonade he’s drinking, calm down).

Did you hear me?  I said he turned SEVEN.

That is halfway to 14, people.

Where are my smelling salts?… someone go get my smelling salts.

We had a great weekend celebrating his seven-ness and I am looking forward to a new year of hanging out with this funny, smart, sweet little kid.  Er, big kid, I guess I should say.

He’s a keeper, I’ll tell you that.

(love that my husband is rockin’ the Def Leppard t-shirt in the background of that pic)

So now, speaking of my husband, he ALSO had a birthday this month.  And he turned thirty-something-something-cough-ahem-you’re-trailing-off…

He loves chocolate cake, so to help celebrate, I ordered him a Chocolate Bavarian Cream cake from Wuollet Bakery.

Which I then had to hide in the fridge for a day.  Not an easy task.

“Didn’t you hide a cake in the fridge a couple of years ago?” you may ask.

Well, yes.

Yes I did.

We like cake over here, what can I say.

And sometimes I run out of original ideas.

That’s the other thing.

Anyway, my husband’s birthday was very fun and the cake turned out to be delicious.

And I can’t complain that one of the side benefits of the Fridge Surprise Cake Hiding Activity is that I always end up getting to partake in the tastiness.

That may or may not be a premeditated thing.

Just a quick note this morning to say Happy Mother’s Day!

And to honor the day, here is a pic of me doling out a little Tickle Torture to our younger child.

(photos taken by my wonderfully awesome husband)

To my mom, my sister, my good friends, and all of the woman who hold the wonderful, frustrating, humbling, insane position of “mom” — I hope you have a truly wonderful day.