Fatherhood Friday 8: Birthday done but party Saturday
Survived Emily’s birthday last Friday (she even managed to sleep in til 715 which is around 45 minutes more sleep than usual). She had a great day with far too many presents then going to an indoor playground with a friend and then a dinner party with all her adult friends and more presents.
The thought of having 10 to 12 four-year olds round for a party is somewhat daunting and is becoming a logistical nightmare which will be worse if it rains on Saturday like it is supposed to. The things we do! Hopefully this isn’t setting the bar too high for all birthdays that are still to come.
Now that she is 4 her most common saying has turned into “I know that!” about most things so apparently when you turn 4 you now know everything about everything.
Emily on Car Ride at Karori Carnival
Samantha: Getting even faster with crawling and getting better at pulling herself up on furniture and walking along it. Also getting better at disappearing and turning up in places she isn’t supposed to be, such as CD shelves, power cords, book shelves, heaters etc…
She also seems to be learning words (not proper words but understandable what she means) at a very fast rate of a couple of new ones per day.
Not too much mischief this week from either 🙂
Sorry about old pic but didn’t get a chance to develop the 2 black and white films I shot last week which had some pics of the girls on them… Hopefully will sort after the party madness.
Fatherhood Friday 7: Emily turns 4
Happy Birthday Emily, 4 today!
Emilys definition of a superhero is: Someone who is Very Big, Very Old and Just About to Die… These are the only time you are allowed to be super.
Emily is very excited and possibly hasnt slept for the last 2-3 days and talking non stop. She told a friend of ours that he had to get her a present for her birthday that wasnt too expensive unless he was rich cause then it would be OK to get her an expensive present.
Slightly Rumpled Fairy
Sam: This week Sam has become a bookmark thief, I have seriously reread the same page of my book 16 or 17 times. Possibly time for a new bookmark or a better place to put my book.
Word of the week “No!” also first possible sentence: “No Ta Dadda” when she didnt want to give me the toy she was playing with.
Sam with Walking Assistance
Fatherhood Friday 6 Emily Plays Drums
All I can say is It seemed like a good idea at the time
A much more sleepfull week this week with Samantha having adjusted to the new sleeping regime.
Nickname of the week: Samington Lamington
Fatherhood Friday 5. Emily Lion and the week we broke Samantha
Another tough week although not as bad as it could have been.
Sam has been waking up 7 or 8 times a night to be fed or settled and this week we decided that we had had enough and it was time for a bit of “tough love” to recover our sanity which had been slipping a bit over the last couple of weeks.
The plan was to start on Sunday and not feed her between 11pm and 5am, this involved me getting up from 11 to just settle and put Sam back to sleep.
Night 1: Fed 3 times before 11pm… Woke at 1am and screamed for 30 minutes then went to sleep… Woke at 3am and screamed for 45 minutes…Woke 5am, Fed went back to sleep till 630am
Night 2: Fed 2 times before 11pm… Woke at 130am and screamed for 10 minutes… Woke at 3am cried for 10 minutes… Woke 5am, Fed and went back to sleep till 6am
Night 3: Fed 1 time before 11pm…Woke 130am…Cried 30 seconds went back to sleep… Woke 5am, Fed and went back to sleep till 645
Last Night: 1st feed 1120pm… Woke 130am for 5 minutes… Bit restless but slept til 615am
Hopefully this improvement continues!
Emily Lion
Come into the Light
This is a really quick mock up of an idea for a shot… It needs another speedlight to come from behind the girls to ballance things up a bit an reduce the all encompasing red a bit.
I like how Sam is going “Here I come!”
Fatherhood Friday 4 Sam only eats things that are small and round
Crap forgot that it was Friday today… Bout sums up my week…Better late than never.
This week Emily is starting to get excited because her birthday is not too far away.
She has been feeling a bit attention starved since Samantha has had a bit of a grumpy week.
Samantha has started refusing all food that she cant feed to her self and current favourites are peas and blueberrys.
Has been constantly grumpy and a little unsettled this week which included a half hour screaming session when she woke early one night and Amanda was out swimming… Probably due to more teeth and Daylight Savings.
Lets hope for a better week next week.
All things going well I will finally have a couple of days to concentrate on photography next week and scoping of rentable darkroom may be on the cards.
Happy Easter and Fatherhood Friday 3
Since having kids I have found myself adopting or making up phrases, here are a sample of a few I seem to use the most:
Less talk more walk
Lets go monkeyo
Faster like Pasta
Red man, red man, wait, wait, wait… Thanks Amy
Sam: now crawling and into everything shes not supposed to be
Taken with Nikon D70s 50mm f1.8 Nikon SB80 Speedlite at 1/2 power bounced off the ceilling
As well I have started spontaneously singing at random times when with my kids, usually at the supermarket or similar. Top hits include:
Move it, Move it
Creep… Minus swearing sometimes
Hakuna matata (The Lion King)
It is also worrying when your wife borrows your 3 year olds accessories (in this case a scarf) and even though they asked if said 3 year old wanted to wear them and were told no a tantrum enschews because she now wants to wear it herself. This is a situation I have never even dreamed that would have to be resolved.
Monday night Highlight… Having to use hiemlich maneuver on wife choking on steak
Emily: Currently has cough, cold and high temperature
Taken last year with Nikon F5 50mm f1.8 and Ilford Delta 400
Fatherhood Friday 2
Just finished developing these last night (yay black and white film)
All I can say is “when the heck did you grow up so much?!
This picture really sums up Samantha in my opinion “its all about me!” Â It is possible at 9 months that she has a diabolical plan to rule the world.
This is a picture of Emily posing, not quite sure what she’s being… I only put it in because one of this weeks big things was watching them cut down the trees that she is standing in front of…Those pics with action sequences of trees being felled coming soon 🙂
Fatherhood Friday
Amanda and Emily
They both have the knack of saying things unintentionally that make me laugh my ass off
Amandas best this week: Lip Waash instead of whiplash
Emilys best this week: ” That necklass looks really pretty mum. When you die can I have it?”
Samantha
Had a hard week teething. 1 top tooth down 1 to go!
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