Heather Johnson Photography

Planning a Valentine’s Day party for ten little girls is a lot of work!  Every spare moment this week went into shopping, baking, or creating for this little get together–not to mention it was my eighth wedding anniversary this week to boot–so I didn’t have a whole lot of time to blog or much else!

Picture taking is even kind of light, so perhaps I will end up with a normal two-page spread after all!

Little Marie is doing great, just losing a lot of hair unfortunately.  She spends a lot of time in her bumbo seat now, and is getting used to a camera in her face quite a bit.  I must say she is quite the pro–flashed the big smile above as soon as I brought my Nikon up to my face. Now that’s a great kid!  Holly on the other hand is burnt out…done with the whole camera thing.  I have driven her crazy for four years with it and she is not interested anymore in smiling or much else for me!!!

We are heading up to my in-laws on Sunday for a day visit (we typically go for entire weekends), so I expect the weekend to zoom on by when you add that to the party. After that we have a week long visit from my mom starting next Tuesday, so can’t wait to see her and her extra set of hands!  No big plans as of yet for her visit, we tend to do lots of hanging out, stories, and games. I can’t wait to see Holly take her own with the wii truth be told!

That about sums it up for us this week. Have a great weekend!

Had a great weekend with my girls! Since my husband works on Saturdays, I am always looking for fun and new things to do with the kids. Luckily our local library has free entertainment on Saturdays–so we were quick to take advantage of that! They had a great entertainer who played the guitar and had all of us dancing and singing.  Some friends met us there, and we even ran into more friends from preschool after it was all over.  It’s amazing how, even though we live in such a large city, we always run into people we know no matter where we are! After the program we decided it was high time that Holly signed for her own library card. And wouldn’t you know it?  Mom had her camera in her purse!  Thank you Project Life!

Sunday was a more low-key day. I had my weekly weigh-in at WW (down 1.2 more…so close to crossing that 200# threshold!) and then a bit of work with another newborn photo shoot. By the time I got home we were all so completely wiped out, me from working in a hot studio and Justin from occupying the girls, that we went out to dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. I think we were all in bed by 8!

I have a ton of catching up to do with my Project Life album before tomorrow.  It’s only half done, but at least I have all of the pictures in one place!  Hopefully when everyone goes to sleep tonight I can sneak onto my computer and finish up.  I so look forward to Tuesdays when everyone posts:)

On another note, things are in high gear for the Valentine’s party this Saturday.  I have 8-10 little girls coming to the house!!!  I bought all of the food today, and am devising my plan of attack as to what I am going to make ahead and when.  I hope to take a lot of photos–but most of all I hope the girls have a great time.  I have a feeling the party will have it’s own special insert!

That’s my precious baby, right before the first evening she slept in her bassinet for the entire night two days ago. She only woke once, for about ten minutes, and my world? Well it felt about perfect. Fast forward to last night where we attempted to try our luck in her actual room, in her actual crib. I will spare you all of the details, but I will say that I got ten minutes again–just ten minutes of asleep time!  I actually don’t know how bad it was, but it was pretty bad!  We were up between 5-7 times, something she never has done.  (Not even as a newborn.) I tried to put her down in the crib throughout the day today and every time I did she cried, so as far as I am concerned it’s official; she hates her crib! We are firmly back in my room tonight until I figure out just what the heck is going on!!

I dusted off my copy of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child in the hopes of finding some answers. This book totally shaped the way I raised Holly and is the reason why I have such a good sleeper in her. I didn’t discover the book until Holly was 5 or 6 months old however, so I really have no idea what it recommends for someone Marie’s age…and when I investigated it further online I discovered that the good doctor has since developed an app for keeping track of naps, complete with reminders!  Brilliant! I have downloaded it already and look forward to being able to use it. As for figuring Marie out now?  Ha–sounds like I am still in the age of unpredictability. It says to try to start getting her accustomed to putting herself to sleep, but by and large it seems that right now I just need to go with the flow.  Hmmmmm…you think that would be easy for me to do!

All I know is that right now she is next to me, and is completely OUT.  I am typing on my laptop right her beside her and she isn’t moving a muscle!  Justin and Holly are already asleep too.  Seems like a good night to work on Project Life yes?

Other than obsessing about napping and sleeping, the rest of our week went pretty smooth around here.  Nothing terribly exciting to report unfortunately.  I do look forward to getting back into the studio on Sunday. A friend of mine had her baby girl two weeks early, so I will be photographing a 9-day old baby girl.  Can’t wait!!!