May's Favorite Face

It's people's choice at I Heart Faces this week, and they want to see your favorite face photo from May. I decided to go with something a bit informal, but very real. This is from Mother's Day morning. As you can see, I'm still sporting the jammies and glasses (oy!) But honestly, what says "Happy Mother's Day" better than breakfast in bed that you have to share with your three year old? He drank most of my orange juice, too.

Check out more great faces from May over at I Heart Faces.

16 Weeks

Things are moving right along in the KSP maternity ward. My belly is looking quite a bit bigger than it did last time I posted (Due, in part, to the fact that I've just stopped trying to hold it in. If you've got it, flaunt it, right?).

Can't wait to find out if this baby is a boy or a girl so I can start buying props. Just what I need more props. I should post a picture of my "prop closet." Yikes! And it is meager compared to many photographers. The problem is the prop closet is, in fact, the closet in the baby's room, which means sometime between now and November, I'm going to have to clean it out and start storing my props somewhere else. Double yikes! Wonder if the homeowners association would complain if I added an extra floor to our house?

And if you're following along with the text (these pictures will eventually go into a photobook along with the text pages), here's the 16 Weeks text.

More YELLOW at I Heart Faces

The photo theme this week at I Heart Faces is YELLOW. (And you thought I was the only one obsessed with this color.) I went back and forth on which yellow photo to enter, but settled on this one of Max chowing down on his ice cream at the fair last summer because it is super summery and, as you may have guessed if you are a regular reader, I'm all about summer. Also because I love the crisp focus on his eyelashes in this shot. The kid has lashes to die for and he'll NEVER appreciate them. (I also love this picture because any picture of Max eating is a true-to-life depiction of him, as that is pretty much all he ever wants to do).



Check out more yellow entries over at I Heart Faces, and have a super summery week (unless you're in Chicago, in which case you'll be having rain and cold along with me).

Sharin' the Love with Lexi and Andrew ~ Chicago Children's Photographer

Remember the Share the Love contest from February? I finally got to meet up with the adorable winners, Lexi and Andrew, this weekend. We thought the rain was going to get in our way, but the day turned out to be sunny and beautiful.

Lexi and Andrew were two super fast little kids. They were too busy checking out the all the cool stuff at the Chicago Botanic Gardens to care much for me and my camera. Can you really blame them? But the good news is my camera is faster than a speeding toddler so I was still able to capture them in all their kiddie glory!

Thanks for coming out to see me and giving me my workout for the day, Lexi and Andrew!

Hello? Summer? Are you there? Are you there?

I'm not sure we ever had Spring, just a lot of rain. Now I feel like Horton searching for his Whos in the great patch of clovers. I keep searching for summer amongst all the rain and cold. We found one day of it yesterday, but today we're back to the clovers a hundred miles wide. But no worries. I'll find summer. I'll find it or bust!

Tuesday's (tardy) Top 5

(Better late than never right?)

So I have a confession to make. I might be edging, ever so slightly, toward the possibility of potentially becoming mildly obsessed with designing the most fabulous (but budget-friendly) nursery evah. I'm not going to say that I'm obsessed. Not yet. I'm only 15 weeks. If I were obsessed now, where would I go from here? But every great potential obsession needs a jumping off point, right?

Here are some of the AWESOME websites that are fueling my obsession (a less cynical person might say they are inspiring me).

MY TOP 5 NURSERY INSPIRATION SITES (as of today)

5. Honey & Fitz. This blog is written by a lady whose obsession with decorating is so far past mine they are not even on the same planet. Seriously, I love everything she does, but I'm not sure we could be friends. Still, the nursery she designed for her son Knox is totally 100% fabulousness.

4. Project Nursery. The name is pretty self-explanatory here. It's a website dedicated to nursery design. The highlight is the real nursery gallery where you can see the rooms others have designed for their own (real-life, not Martha-Stewart-grown) little ones.

3. Buy Modern Baby. This site reaches farther than just nurseries, but keeps its focus on only things "modern" for baby (think sleek, funky, possibly head-scratch inducing).

2. Oh Dee Doh. This site is actually the children's branch of a larger site called Apartment Therapy, so it's not surprising that Oh Dee Doh's focus is on "small living," i.e. living with kids in small spaces. They are currently running a contest for creative and stylish nurseries and kids rooms that measure 75 square feet or less. Can you imagine putting your baby to sleep in her walk-in-closet nursery or nook in your bedroom/living room combo? Move to New York (or Chicago) and you can!

1. Pinterest. I just discovered Pinterest but I am already so so SO hooked. I can't even explain it. I was trying to explain the site to my sister tonight and the best I could come up with is that it's a place to waste time looking at lots and lots of beautiful things. And you get to put them all into your own little collection to drool over any time you want! Gah! I already have a healthy little pinboard started for BSv2 (Baby Shores version 2)'s nursery inspiration. I'm sure it will continue to grow. If you want a pinterest invite, let me know and you can procrastinate with me, too!

And since no post is complete without a picture. Here's the very first thing I ordered for the nursery. It's a book end (have I mentioned the nursery is going to be book themed?) from CB2. It's yellow and funky and fab. And this is only the beginning!

What's bugging ewe?

Ha ha. I kid. I kid.

Seriously? You're still reading this?!?