The little artist

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As I said in my previous post, I've been very busy with photography work these days. Just because life is busy, we still found some time to get Wesley in the studio for a birthday shoot. It isn't a cake smash like I usually do with 1 year olds, but still was a messy expression of fun and childhood. My plan is to for a big print of this one to hang in our house.

Wesley love to paint! It was so funny, at first he dipped his toes in the little dollops and then smeared them around. He wasn't that big into finger painting, which is what I thought he would do. Mostly smeared around with his feet until I gave him a paint brush. You can be sure he went straight into the tub after this session!

Under construction! but been very busy!

Hi readers,
my beloved readers,
my family and friends and some random strangers who find my world fascinating... or at lease semi entertaining,

Please accept my humble apologies for being a blog slacker. We went to Disney for a week, then were home for two weeks and I was WAYYY busy with work - yea my photography business is doing well!!! - and then we went to Rochester for a very long weekend and I returned to two photography sessions on the same day. I am VERY behind on my own personal photos and since the weather in Baltimore is pretty yucky right now, I'm going to try to catch up a bit. So, please bear with me as I update posts. I am starting off by adding lots of videos and then will fill in the posts with additional photos and supplemental anecdotal stories and text. And hey, at least you know I haven't left you!

This calls for a celebration!

Wesley and I picked up a few balloons for his birthday celebration. Poor kid had a blast being crowded in the back with all those balloons!

Twice as nice!

For Wesley, turning two meant two birthday parties this year. One in Rochester earlier in the week and one in Baltimore. Both parties were small and family only, but fun none the less! His Baltimore party was very small, just Grandma and Grandpop and Mom and Dad. We still had a yummy cake from Sugarbakers and took lots of pictures! It was quite festive!

He dove right into the presents! It is absolutely true what they say about the wrapping being the best part for little ones. He soon realized the good stuff was on the inside!

Grandma Great sent him a birthday bear. He LOVES it and plays the song often. His latest thing to say is "Hap Boo" aka "Happy Birthday." We're working on the full phrase...

And this just boggled our minds! Two days prior we learned that when asked, Wesley knew how old he was! We haven't really been stressing it with him, so it just took us by surprise that he responds appropriately when asked "how old are you?" Too cute!!!

Dancin' Dancin'

Wesley's birthday fell on a Friday this year. Even though Daddy was at work, the birthday celebration started early in the day with haircuts for Wesley and his buddy Nolan at our favorite kids' salon Pigtails and Crewcuts. Then we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese, where they danced their little hearts out, ate pizza and played some games. We had such fun! Thank you Sam and Nolan - for treating to lunch for Wesley's birthday!

Cell phone pics from the farm...

My "good" camera battery died, but these two were too cute to miss out on pics - thank goodness for cell phones!

Turning two - and blowing out the candle!

While we were in Rochester, we had a party to celebrate Wesley's birthday. I still can't believe he blew out the candle!