What I Wore Sunday

So Rosie's reasons for linking up with her for What I Wore Sunday were very convincing. I barely remembered (in the middle of Mass), and 3 out of 4 kids agreed to pose with me for a quick shot before we all rushed around to get brunch ready before guests arrived.

I also realized partway through the first reading that I had managed to put my sweater on inside-out. Whoops. But we were surrounded by other families with young children, so I figured if anybody else noticed then they would probably be fairly understanding. I decided not to fix it for the picture--keeping things real here, folks.

And no--John Paul did not get to wear his baseball cap to Mass. He just grabbed it as soon as we got home.

Check out the link-up for people who actually wear their clothes correctly!

Embrace the Camera (vol. 2)

I'm 31 weeks now, and realized I only have one real 'belly shot' of Liam.  I have several at different stages of pregnancy with Michael, and I have it on good authority that second-borns can sometimes be a little touchy about there being fewer pictures of them than of the first-borns (*cough*Dene'*cough*).  Well, we can't start that this early with the boys, can we?  So after getting Michael to bed I made Alex take some pictures of me (because, of course, he complained horribly about me handing him the camera and telling him to point it at me... I think he may be a fan of Emily's Embrace the Camera deal).

Embrace the Camera Vol. 1

I was making my rounds of mommy-blogs today and stumbled across Emily at the anderson crew and her inspiring challenge to embrace the camera.  She gives a much more eloquent explanation, but essentially it involves being intentional about getting pictures of yourself with the ones you love now, rather than waiting till you're a little more prepared for your ideal photo shoot (which, in my case, would mean minimal pictures of myself for probably a year--after I lose all the pregnancy weight from Liam plus the 10 pounds or so that I never lost from Michael).

So this evening I grabbed the camera to try to get a couple shots with Michael.  He wasn't particularly cooperative (he wanted to look through the camera rather than be on the business end of the photo) but we still ended up with Embrace the Camera Vol. 1:

Too quick with the kisses to be caught on camera

Mom, enough already!