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portraits of my children {17|52 + 18|52}

May 5, 2014 at 4:59 pm

The 52 Project: A portrait of my children once a week + every week in 2014.

OK, time to play catch up! I came home from Paris totally photoed-out, and so for all of Week 17 of the photo project, I didn’t want to take a single picture. I did get a couple of iPhone photos, though…

Lena (below): We spent a quiet week at home after Paris. During that time, Lena rediscovered her blocks and built this amazing tower while I was somewhere else in the house. When she called me to see her masterpiece, I was completely impressed. She’s never constructed anything so elaborate before. Her smile tells you she knows it, too!

Gil: My sweet “Aunt” Leslie has an heirloom children’s clothing business, and she made these beautiful color-coordinated outfits for the kids when Gil was born. Last Sunday we took them to church all gussied up in their finery. Despite looking like they stepped out of the 19th century, I think both of them were a lot more comfortable than they are in some of their more fashionable 21st century duds!

This past Wednesday, Elliott’s brother Jonathan and his wife Erika joined us for five days. Elliott took time off work to spend with them, and we spent every day exploring Sicily and introducing them to our favorite towns, sights, and foods. The kids loved having them here, and we were all so sad to see them leave this morning.

(And there I go second-guessing our decision to not move back to D.C. to be near family for the millionth time…!)

Anyway, we spent one day with J+E in the beautiful town of Taormina, which has already been featured on this blog about 10 times. As usual, we ate our way through Taormina, capping it all off with the delicious granita (Italian ice made with fresh fruit) at Bam Bar. Lena’s face says it all once again…

And I’ll leave you to enjoy Gil’s series of portraits with his Aunt Erika below. He’s figuring the important things out in life first, I guess!

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Gil’s 5-month photo shoot

June 24, 2013 at 8:31 pm

I don’t know about you, but when it comes to friends, I have a special place in my heart for those who have these three character qualities:

Good taste
Incredible handicraft skills
Adoration of your child that rivals your own

Do you have friends like this? They are good people, these friends!

My sister-in-law Eden and my own mom are definitely in this category for me. Another wonderful friend is my “Aunt” Leslie, who I have known since before I can remember and who absolutely loves my two little ones. She owns an heirloom clothing business called Rosebasket and has made beautiful clothing for Lena and Gil. She made the darling outfit pictured above for Gil after he was born.

Although it probably won’t fit Gil properly until next summer, just for fun we dressed him up in this outfit last week and took some photos. I have been wanting to do another Gil photo shoot after the last one went pretty well (although his first photo shoot was a bit of a bust!). I loved how these photos turned out. He’s such a cute little munchkin!

Now, Gil, can you please learn to be as good at sleeping through the night as you are at taking pictures? I love you, my adorable baby boy.

Love,
Mama

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P.S. Winner of the bike seat and helmet giveaway is announced here!

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Samsung vs. Apple according to Lena

September 26, 2012 at 11:30 am

What kind of phone do you have? Lena and her Uncle Jonathan tell you which is best:

Happy news: my first guest post ever is on The Book of Love blog! I am thrilled to be a part of Alison’s beautiful Story/Book series and to be talking about one of Lena’s favorite children’s books. Our friend Leslie Roe took the beautiful photos for us for it and I just love them. (Now I see why people hire a photographer to follow them around every now and then! Have you ever done that? Maybe someday….)

Lastly, don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a pair of fingerless gloves. I’ll announce the winner at 3pm EST tomorrow, September 28!

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Samsung vs. Apple according to Lena

September 26, 2012 at 10:30 am

What kind of phone do you have? Lena and her Uncle Jonathan tell you which is best:

Lastly, don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a pair of fingerless gloves. I’ll announce the winner at 3pm EST tomorrow, September 28!

5 :: in family, guest post, Lena, Rosebasket, video, Virginia

Rosebasket dresses and shaving cream

September 20, 2012 at 10:22 pm

You know those families that you’ve just known forever, the ones that are a part of childhood summers and teenage holidays and grown-up weddings, the ones that you know will be there forever into the future, too? The Roes are like that for our family. Aunt Leslie and Uncle Brian are some of my parents’ dearest friends, we visited them every summer growing up, we went skiing in France with their son Daniel this past March, and Aunt Leslie sewed an exquisite dress that Lena wore for her baptism.

Aunt Leslie has an online business called Rosebasket in which she makes heirloom christening gowns and baby clothing. Yesterday Aunt Leslie came over to my parents’ house to take pictures of Lena modeling some of her heirloom gowns. Doesn’t Lena look charming in the first photo?! But don’t be fooled…

Other parts of the photo shoot went like this, with tears and crazy antics:

Interspersed with moments like this (there’s my pretty girl… half-asleep and ready for a nap!):

And the photo shoot finished with this:

In a last-ditch attempt to get Lena to laugh for just one more dress, my mom put shaving cream all over her face and did a crazy dance. Despite all her efforts, Lena merely looked like a bemused princess (see the best photos here). And once the dress was off she made a beeline for my mom’s face and rubbed shaving cream alllll over her little body.