15 Oct
October Photo Challenge: Week 2
Day 8: Bad Habit
This picture demonstrates laziness in two ways. First, because I couldn’t seem to get my act together and take a picture with my dSLR. So you get an iphone picture. Second way this demonstrates laziness? This is my bad habit, both not locking the cabinet to prevent him from pulling all of this stuff out, and not immediately taking things away from him that he shouldn’t be playing with, like glass bottles or egg cartons we plan to give back to the farmer. This picture shows that I still haven’t mastered keeping him out of cupboards like I should.
Day 9: Someone You Love
It was between the husband and the baby with this one. The baby doesn’t mind when I take his picture 
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ISO 640, 50mm, f1.8, 1/160
Day 10: Childhood Memory
Another day where I just wasn’t really feeling the effort to dream up anything until my daylight was almost gone.
ISO 5000, 50mm, f/2.0, 1/50
This picture represents the sinful sandwich my grandma taught me about as a little girl. Homemade white bread, butter, peanut butter, jelly. Mmmmmm.
Day 11: Something blue
The laziest day of all for me! I got a fun package in the mail, something I get to test out (and then give a duplicate version away to one of you!) and so I had this box on the brain.
ISO 1250, 50mm, freelensed, 1/500
Day 12: Sunset
We had virtually no sunset this day, and so I will show you this gorgeous one from October 6th. Isn’t that just heavenly? God designs the most beautiful sky paintings.
ISO 500, 34mm (16-35 lens), f/2.8, 1/50 (I believe I took this picture on auto, I was in a hurry).
Day 13: Yourself with 13 things
I decided to get really creative on this day! I wanted to practice my composite editing and I thought it would be fun to show you some of the things that I consider essential for my beauty routine. In no particular order:
Hair towel (blow-drying long hair from soaking wet is aggravating)
Straightener
Kiehls lip balm (it absolutely must be in the jar)
Clarisonic tooth brush
Shiseido eyelash curler
Lancome primer
Lancome eye makeup remover
Miniature bobby pins (I found these at Sally’s and I plan to buy them and start giving them as gifts or something, so hard to find but so essential)
Wide tooth comb (a must for the times when I have to comb out my hair wet)
Shower cap (How else would I go 2-3 days between washes?)
Pur minerals powder
Nizoral shampoo for dandruff (No ‘Poo has done a number on my scalp and suddenly I’m dealing with major dandruff!)
Mirror (to see the back of my head)
Lip gloss from Italy (I believe the brand is Deborah by Milano or something)
Lancome mascara
Sock-bun assistant tool (an absolute must for quickly creating big full buns using the sock bun method).
I realize this is more than 13 things. Somehow I miscounted.
Day 14: Eyes
I took the picture of me on the left a few days ago for another post, and I thought it would be fun to try to capture one of T1 in a similar spot with similar light to try to compare our eyes. What do you think, did he get my eyes? I’m celebrating as of late because my optometrist friend told me it’s unlikely his will change after this point. That Husband has brown eyes so it would be difficult to claim those blue eyes came from him.
See the blogs of everyone else participating in this challenge here.
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The photo ofyour eyes is awesome! I love how bright the photos are, both yours and T1′s
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1First of all, beautiful eyes on you both:). He may have your color, and the shape from TH. He will change so much in the next 20 years it’s hard to say.
Second of all, in my humble opinion, T1 is the kid born to play in the cupboards. The easiest way to deal with this is to lock up most cupboards, leave a couple that he CAN dismantle. Sure, you’ll have to clean up the mess, but he can help, and he will be entertained. The kid clearly likes to sort and assemble. My daughter would have LOVED the cans of different sizes. The more options you give him to play intelligently, in an unstructured but well-resourced way, the better. You probably know this already. But hey, who else do I have to give child-rearing advice to right now?
One day you may turn a corner to find T1 has dismantled a fan, or a toaster. This is a Good Thing and to be encouraged. His brain is working and growing all the time. So much easier to set things up to encourage him, rather than feel like you’re lazy when you don’t control him:). After all, we don’t really like grownups who always do as they are told, or never open any doors.
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2I love your 13 things picture!
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3Love the composite picture-very cute!
I’m happy you are using Pur Minerals-I love it!
Finally, I was about to jump on the No Poo bandwagon…but the dandruff comment scares me.
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4Great shots I especially like the one where you were able to photoshop multiple you’s in the picture.
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5Ditto LPC!
Let him play! You’re not teaching bad habits since when he’s older he won’t want to pull stuff out. We babyproofed most cabinets, but T has two that are all his to play with.
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6Haha, I really like the one of you with 13 things. I have no idea how one even does one of those photos. The sunset one is gorgeous too! I wish we’d lose the cloud cover more so I can take sunset photos.
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7I love the sunset photo and your 13 things photo. very creative.
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8I also love your 13 things! I did mine as a take on the fascinating blog “The Burning House” - have you heard of it? http://www.flickr.com/photos/hernewleaf/6240051804/
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9I don’t usually comment on here, but that last photo of yourself next to T1 is really stunning. I mean, I know you have a towel on your head and little to no makeup on, but you look really…enigmatic. Nicely done, my lady.
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10Love the composite!
Blue eyes for P means that TH has one dominant, one recessive gene for his brown eyes - and 50% each time you have a kid that they’ll have blue eyes…yay!!
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joyjoy Reply:
October 19th, 2011 at 12:40 am
Actually, eye color is dependent on more than one gene, so it does’t really work that way. They are beautiful, though.
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Love the picture of T1 in the bathroom. I think kids are set up to empty out cupboards
Maybe try rearragning so the cupboards he can get into have things he’s allowed to play with (pots or teatowels maybe?) and things he’s not allowed are not accessable?
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12I think the blue eyes are here to stay!
Gorgeous.
Love the composite shot!
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13Love the last shot! Did you know that all blue-eyed people come from the same ancestor? At least according to this infographic: http://pinterest.com/pin/204954354/ Pretty fascinating!
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14Love the last three pictures. You are so talented.
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15That composite shot is awesome! You and T1 have gorgeous, gorgeous eyes.
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16My eyes were blue just like T1′s until I was 6 years old, when they gradually turned green like my mom’s. It’s actually more common than you’d think. Eye color can change away from blue when a child is even older than that, up to the start of puberty I believe. His eyes are already incredibly beautiful though, so I hope your optometrist friend is right and they don’t change!
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