I'm In My Big Girl Bed! - Feb 22

Three years, one month, and two weeks.

We have been fortunate that Chloe has never been one to be a risk taker. She has probably been tall enough to physically climb out of her crib for 6 months to a year but she was perfectly content to sit in there and wait for us to come get her when she wakes up. We have friends who have kids that climbed out of their cribs when there were like a year old so in that respect we dodged a gigantic bullet there. She recently started expressing interest of getting out of her crib herself and she stuck her foot over the edge and when she did that I felt like I literally saw a light bulb go off in her head. She stuck her other foot up over the rail and suddenly she was sitting on the top rail of the crib..and couldn't get down. Heather and I made the decision it was probably time to swap out the front crib rail for the "toddler bed" piece that we purchased when we originally bought the crib. Chloe was immediately excited by the idea of having her special new bed..even thought it's just a small change to her existing crib.

Heather and I have both been worried about how this change would go once we actually made the switch. We could only picture her immediately getting out of bed and not actually staying in bed when we put her down. We thought she would wake up in the morning, get herself out of bed and just start playing with her stuff. Nope. Chloe is awesome. Of course she is. From the first night she happily climbs herself into bed and stays there all night. Same for her naps. She wakes up we can hear her talking to herself on the monitor and she still stays in her bed until we go into the room. We thought it was going to be a disaster but it turns out that she is old enough now to be given a pep talk and she wants to follow the directions. Color me amazed.
Just a few random shots of her in her "new" bed. Have a great weekend, folks. =)

Brian

The Love Bug - Feb 15

Happy Valentines Day! Personally, I don't care for Valentines day. Yeah, I said it. To many people are excluded and made to feel bad about themselves if they don't have "someone special to share it with". I know, I'm mister stick in the mud but that's how I feel! Chloe, doesn't know all that yet and I'm married to a girl so we celebrate Valentines day around here, lol. =) Over the last week both Chloe and myself had a strange 24-36 hour flu bug that knocked us on our respective butts. Chloe woke herself up Saturday morning throwing up in her crib..which aside from being an infant and dealing with spitting up, this was our first incident with that. Um, totally not the same, BTW. I have heard horror stories about it happening to kids while they are in the car and worse so I feel we got off pretty lucky. Much to our surprise she was not even phased by it at all. By Monday, she was fine and it was my turn. LOL. When I made this post, I swear it was only about her shirt but as I started writing, I see the irony.

By mid week life was normal and Chloe and I set out to our most clever and top secret Valentines shopping spot(Target) where I could let Chloe help pick out some stuff for Heather. We got her a card that Chloe colored and decorated with stickers and some Chocolates that Chloe insisted she was going to eat when we got home. Overall, another low key week around here with Valentines day stuck in there somewhere and that's pretty much how we got here. =P

Have a great weekend, folks.
-B

It's Almost Spring Time! - Feb 8

Last weekend I set out to take some photos of our friends 6 month old little girl at a local park. It was a nice day so Heather & Chloe decided to tag along and have some fun at the park! It's been several months since we have had nice weather and I'm sure Chloe was more than happy to get in some park time, lol. After my session concluded we decided it was such a nice day that we would jam on over to the Oakland Zoo and spend a few hours there. It's strange for me I'm sure but even though I obviously had my camera with me I decided not to take it with us and just enjoy the day without having to take pictures of stuff. Besides, we have been to the zoo many times with lots of pictures to prove it so here are just a few snaps from the park that I liked..and the rest will have to be left to your imaginations. =p

Have a great weekend!

B

Speed. SPEED! - Feb 1

Between bad weather and Chloe being sick for what seemed like a month we haven't really had much time to "drive' McQueen. This thing may only go 3 miles per hour but for Chloe it must feel like 30. LOL. We have finally had a week of pretty decent weather and of course now I have been sick most of this week so we have pretty much been lying low here at home. I've had this idea in my head of some pictures I wanted to get with Chloe driving and these are just a few of my "test" shots for inspiration. I'm feeling better but I'm off to bed so I'll just say have a great weekend and enjoy the pics!

-B