Teachingmommy: 6 Month Picture Time

Sunday, October 14, 2007

6 Month Picture Time

Can you believe it that little Mae Mae is already 6 months old? We went back to Portrait Innovations today (thanks for coming with us Auntie Kat!) for Maelin's 6 month old pictures and was she cute!

I promised Kevin I would stay on a budget because these aren't even going to be the Christmas pictures because Christmas is still 2 months away: these are her 6 month old pictures. The problem is that our house is so small, we're running out of room to put them all. I've been putting her recent pictures over the older ones, but we're still running out of room because she's so darn cute! What to do...buy a bigger house, I say!

Hope you enjoy these: I'm sure you'll also be getting them attached in an email or in hard copy form from me very shortly...the cutest part of the whole experience was when Maelin decided that she was no longer interested in smiling for the nice lady: she wanted to eat the fake flowers and then she wanted to eat her new black shoes. Hey, at least she's consistent! (btw: these are the raw form: the edited ones are much cuter and you can click on any of these pictures to see them bigger....)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: So cute...she is really growing up!; October 16, 2007 at 12:56 AM

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Spanish Steps: Rome, Italy

Must Read Books & Great Authors

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Irish-American family struggling against poverty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. This is my all-time favorite book and you MUST read this at least once in your lifetime. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, it is available in 31 different countries and it has been hearlded as "The Great Amercian Novel"
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a heart-wrenching novel about what it means to be a good parent, a good person and a good sister. Kate has had cancer since childhood and her younger sister Anna was concevied to be a perfect-match bone marrow donor for her. As Anna grows up, she struggles with how she and world will see the rights of her own body. This novel is the first book in years that had me crying. It was very well written and very enjoyable if you're in the mood for a tear-jerker.
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about a nomadic, deprived childhood told with the wonderment of a child who always wants to believe that Daddy will be a hero in the end and that Momma really does know best. You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender. It's a riveting story and a testament to Walls' desire to rise above a life that could have easily turned her into just another tragic headline. I really appreciated this story because of the very real probability that some of my students are living this very life.
One of my favorite authors (I have everything she's ever written) is Marian Keyes whose stories are set in Britian or Ireland. She is the internationally bestselling author of Watermelon (which is my favorite), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, The Last Chance Saloon, Angels, Sushi for Beginners, Under the Duvet, and her latest, The Other Side of the Story. Her books have touched readers around the world, and they are now published in 35 countries and in many different languages.