9 Months Old

This week has been very busy. I've booked a wedding, I've been working non-stop on my new website and I have clients coming in and out...plus Linnea turned 9 months old and is teething badly (getting her eye teeth). Tomorrow I am photographing for the Edmonton Symphony Society fundraiser which is a BC wine tasting. Should be fun!

Here are 4 shots of Linnea taken today wearing "big girl" pants with a real button and zipper. :)

A Quick Naked Baby Session

So I had fun this morning - I had 4 minutes or so of shooting time as I was getting ready to do a headshots session...I plunked Linnea on the floor and went to town. Here are some of the photos. Comments that I've made about the photos are on my facebook page...

Linnea Climbing Already?

Linnea is pleased to announce she can pull herself up from a sitting position while in her crib to a standing position hanging on to the rails. Here are some photos from her experience...although I must say she enjoys sucking on the rail more than the actual effort of pulling herself up and then losing her balance and falling backwards. Work seems a bit slow to me these days but it is after Christmas...I have a wedding consultation this week so hopefully that will go well for a wedding this coming September.

Oh yeah - she is starting to really communicate this month as well...she's screaming "Ah!" when she wants me to do something "again" or wants more food. The other thing she does is squeeze her fingers in her right hand motioning to me she wants more food or wants the toy I have in my hand. It's pretty cool to see her develop like this!

Linnea on Stage

I am working for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra this past year and am photographing for their 2009 brochure. I am almost done all the sessions and this morning Linnea, Aaron and I photographed Lucas (the new assistant conductor from Toronto) and Meghan the new french horn player for the ESO. Before the session started I plunked Linnea down on the floor center stage at the Winspear Centre and took some photos. Here is a photo you may print of if you like as it's a high res 3x5 or so image. She's conducting in this shot!

Playing

So tonight Jeff and I went on a short date to a wine tasting...Top 100 selections from the Wine Spectator magazine. We had an enjoyable time while my backdoor neighbors babysat Linnea. Before we left I took a few snapshots of Linnea playing happily on the floor. Here they are! Oh yeah - to see pretty much all our Christmas 2008 photos please visit my facebook profile.

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8 1/2 Months Old

This is a photo taken today after I fed Linnea beets mixed with plain yogurt and banana with a pinch of unrefined sea salt.



Linnea had a doctor's appt this past Monday and she was 19 lbs 6 ozs and 26 3/4" long. She ate meat (prime rib) for the first time this week and now enjoys plain yogurt, butternut squash soup, and bananas mixed with pretty much anything. She now eats solid foods about 3 times a day between nursings. She is learning to drink water from a cup too and has gotten soaked a few times now. She isn't crawling yet but moves along the floor to get her toys and blocks. She can stand on the couch against the back for a bit and then falls backwards or sits promptly down finding this repetitive exercise quite funny. She babbles a lot right now putting different sounds and syllables together forming some weird baby language that no one can understand. She has said mama and dada but doesn't understand that I am mama and Jeff is dada yet. She loves to laugh from her belly and this has got to be the most favourite activity - watching Jeff make Linnea laugh hysterically and other tender moments where she'll just hang on to his finger and look at him with a big smile on her face. It makes me cry!

I am enjoying this week a lot better than last week. Linnea is getting back into a schedule and is much happier during the day and I am finally getting some stuff done around the house and even accomplishing work. I finally uploaded some new maternity photos I took before Christmas and their newborn photos will be online soon too. The snow continues to fall here and it's quite cold. I have one last session shooting for the 2009 Edmonton Symphony Orchestra brochure this coming Friday and then the post production process begins. I then have 2 corporate sessions booked next week and clients coming over to look at wedding albums to order. It's getting busy again and I'm hoping to get my new website up and running by the end of the month as well and get my books together for my bookkeeper who has also had her 2nd baby recently so I better get on that.

I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and New Years. We had a lovely time seeing my mom's side of the family this Christmas and seeing my entire extended family. I am also excited that 3 of my cousins got engaged to be married over Christmas as well so it'll be a fun 2009 with family and client weddings!!!

Christmas Photos

Well it's been way too long since I've blogged so I thought I should get some photos up on the blog from our trip to BC this past Christmas....I have only one card downloaded as I've misplaced the other 2 cards.....so hopefully I'll find them soon so I can get the rest of the photos for y'all to see. Linnea is 8 months old in these photos and it was her first Christmas. It was great to spend it with my mom's side of the family this year in Abbotsford, BC.

There are some shots of us on the ferry on our way back to Vancouver from Victoria (on the retiring/last sailing of the Queen of Vancouver). These are the shots of Linnea in her umbrella stroller. Auntie Sasha and Auntie Kat are in a couple photos spending time with Linnea and Great Grandma and Great Grandpa are enjoying time with Linnea as well. I especially am fond of my grandpa playing piano with Linnea...that was a very special moment for me. And of course there are some great shots of Linnea with her Grandma Horch by the Christmas tree. Favourites of mine indeed!