Happy 9 Month Birthday Sweet Cheeks...

So I'm a week late, but the pictures were taken on her actual birthdate. This month's was the most challenging yet. Sweet Cheeks was not in the mood to smile - she was too busy getting into things. I'm noticing that most of her pictures happen like this now. Life is too interesting for smiles at the camera - she's still adorable though.

I tried the cell phone as distraction - didn't work.

Happy EIGHT Months Sweet Cheeks!

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So bummed this came out blurry - look at that sheer joy!

Happy SEVEN Months Sweet Cheeks!

Happy Half Birthday Sweet Cheeks (a day late)!!!

So the pictures were taken yesterday, I swear, but I couldn't get my act together last night to get these up. I've started running again which means dinner isn't usually until well after 8PM (more like 9PM) and shower and sleep comes soon after.

Sweet Cheeks discovered the paper this month and getting cute shots weren't hard, but since we go to "school" (still can't get over that's what they call day care now - my mom laughed at me like I was crazy when I told her that we pay "tuition") on weekdays now, the lighting wasn't that great in the morning. A lot of the shots are alittle blurry too - I'm no professional and the "automatic" setting isn't always the best. We did another round when we got home in the evening, but by that time she was hip to the paper and we had a difficult time getting the shots...you can see that the paper is askew in almost all of the evening shots because she kept turning around and grabbing for it (not to mention wrinkled from the morning round). I finally gave in when I felt I got "the shot".

There were so, so, so many good ones...here's a few I picked to share.

Hello again Mr. Owl!

Hello Mr. Paper!!!

Going for both at the same time.

Hmm...what does it say?



And the winning shot!