29 Apr

Miss 'M' of the 'Y' Family

Little Miss M is a cutie-patootie…





29 Apr

Miss 'C' of the 'Y' Family…

Miss C is going to be a dynamite when she grows up. She is one now… She plays cello, dances and holds dinner parties for friends. Here are some of her images…




26 Apr

I love Mondays…

Mondays are lovely. A day off with Popster, and every fortnight with DJ too, Mondays are time to breath and play and sometimes even think. With DJ around on a Monday our days vary but when it is just Poppy and I we generally do the same thing…

It starts with a walk around the see the horses to which Poppy cheerfully calls ‘HOORRSSEEYY….’ until they finally see her and trot over to say hello which delights her no end. The horses near us are very friendly – thankfully, because if they weren’t up for coming over for a visit I am sure Poppy would be most indignant.

After our walk down the laneway to the horses we continue on to our local cafe for our weekly coffee and cake treat. Poppy loves watching the world go by and so I am treated to a relaxed 10 – 15 minutes or so where I can just sit.

Once we are over that which generally happens at the conclusion of the cake we head home, stopping to look at the ‘pretties’ (flowers) and butterflies and often ‘the mooooon’ if it is still visible in the sky. My camera always comes along with us and I use Mondays to play with focus and lighting.

Poppy is generally ready for a bit of inside play then and we sing, read books, build lego buildings for her hoorrsseeyys and generally make a good old mess.

Nap time means an hour or so to get some washing done, catch up on some computer work or just stop… followed with more play in the afternoon and generally a run around outside with Ceilidh pups.

Yep, Mondays are good days.

Here are some images from our last couple of Mondays together…



28 Mar

Where are we on the rollercoaster?

Hi!
 
I hope you will like it here.
  
I plan for this place to be a little bit us, a little bit life and a lot photography!
 
About us:
* Fran – photographer, mum, wife and more…
* DJ – Catchment Officer, extraordinary dad, fabulous husband and can’t do without him photographer’s assistant
* Poppy Cate (20 months) – daughter, expert teether and model
 
It seems relevant for our first post to tell you about our last couple of months. It has been interesting and exhausting…
  
Poppy got all four eye teeth at once. When I say at once, I mean all together – not quickly. They took three months to come through… Poppy is not an easy teether. Her teeth like to make sure we all know they are coming through. I have friends whose children ‘wake up with teeth’. No signs, no symptoms – they just arrive. What bliss! Not Poppy. She struggles with every symptom known to teething – horrific nappy rash, fever, pain, runny nose, grumpiness, clingy-ness, sleepness nights, early morning wake up calls – you name it she experiences it. And we experience it right along with her. For 3 months this time.
 
So just when we thought Poppy might be our only one (how could we possibly put another wee one and ourselves through this) things seemed to turn a corner. Poppy went to stay at Granny and Pa’s place for the night and came home different – pain free and happy. The offending teeth stand tall like icebergs – pointy at the top with more lurking underneath – and for now they seem to have ceased giving her trouble.
 
We have started to breath again and are rejoicing the return of our happy and curious toddler.
 
Someone seems to have hit the fast forward button on her development again. She is talking more, has outgrown another pair of perfectly brand new shoes and last night took my hand and led me into her bedroom to show me that she wanted to go to bed!
 
So please tell me that this new found ’settledness’ will last a little bit longer and that we are not almost at the top of the next rollercoaster climb with another hurtling fall into reality just around the corner…

 

 

 
 
 

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