Santa Claus is lookin’ kind of girly.

and looking out the window.

More to come of these five…

because I’m not done sorting through my session with them and their parents.  Here are a few, though.

I love this one of the sisters.

And doesn’t the little guy here just melt your heart?? So cute.

Miss D, in her German dress.

This poor photo blog has been neglected, oddly enough, because I’ve been so busy TAKING pictures! I don’t have any more sessions scheduled at the moment, though, so hopefully I’ll get a chance to catch up on editing and posting.

This little gal is wearing a dress from Germany, which her grandparents bought for her long, long ago. Well, three years ago!

Her mom wanted to make sure she documented D wearing this dress, so we did a little photo session on a warm day.

Little Poser

While I was taking pictures of my nephew recently, I also got a few of Zoe.

She was being awfully serious.

And she was doing a very classic photo-studio pose, all on her own.

and here’s a cheerful version!

There’s a whole world out there…

These pictures are from the beginning of September, but I just found them now as I was sorting through pre-vacation photo folders.

Love the cheek.

I love this little face.

Someone lost a tooth.

And she’s pretty pleased about it!

Some chilly swimming

Our neighbor behind us owns a pool, and though he gives us a free invitation all summer long, we only ever seem to make it over once a year. I don’t know quite what’s wrong with us!

His pool is chilly, but it does have a cool slide.

I don’t often use the action setting on my camera, but it is awfully handy for water slide pictures.

Lisey, shivering.

Zoe was smart enough to realize that the pool was too cold for anything but dipping her feet.

The most wonderful thing about swimming at this pool is that all we have to do is take a walk through our yard, and we’re home.  Easy-peasy.  Remind me why I don’t do this more often??

I will do better next summer.

These are Zoe’s flip-flops.

She’s obsessed with every sort of creature that lives in the ocean, especially fish. But, Old Navy had no fish flip-flops…only seahorse flip-flops. Zoe didn’t mind, though.

See the two little black dots on the inside of her flip-flops? Those are there because even though there’s a 50/50 chance of getting flip-flops on the right feet, Zoe gets it wrong 95% of the time. So, before she puts on her shoes, I tell her to make her dots kiss. She loves doing it (she giggles every time!) and it works like a charm.

Mmmm….soft serve.

Due to her propensity for dropping ice cream cones onto the sidewalk, Zoe had her ice cream in a cup.

And so did Sonia.

Joshua and Lisey can easily handle cones.

Have I mentioned that I feel really fortunate to have two blue-eyed subjects that live with me? My husband and I both have brown eyes, so having two blue-eyed children was a nice surprise!

I like my brown-eyed ones too, though.