I finally got the time to prepare all the pictures and get them up on the site. I have finished out Kylie’s Year 3 gallery and started her Year 4 gallery. In addition I added the pictures I took on my work trip back to Philadelphia. I also made a slight change to the gallery so now all the top level albums show on one page.
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Mommy’s Phone Number
This morning Kylie came up to Mommy and said “Mommy guess what I know” and then proceeded to recite Mommy’s cell phone number. Needless to say Mommy was very impressed and they had to call Daddy so I could hear it too. After Kylie told me Mommy’s phone number and I told her how proud I was of her; I then asked her who taught it to her, to which Mommy replied “Didn’t you?” Which I of course did not, and when I asked Kylie again who taught it to her she said Aunt Sissy. However we asked Aunt Sissy and she denies teaching it to her, as does Mimi. So at this point we do not know who taught Kylie Mommy’s phone number. We are happy that she knows it though, and have decided that seeing as she knows Mommy’s we should teach her Daddy’s as well.
Portrait Day
Today we went to Sears Portrait Studio to have Kylie’s third year birthday pictures and the family portrait taken. In addition to this being a yearly tradition it is also one of two times that we go to the studio each year to have pictures of Kylie taken, the other time being Christmas. This was the first time that I was not happy with the way the sitting went. It started off bad when the photographer attempted to introduce himself to Kylie by basically running up to her and jumping down into her face. What adult charges at a strange three year old child? That was the beginning of the end for this photo shoot. The photographer had no artistic opinion or pose ideas and Tiffany and I found our selves trying to suggest poses that were done in the past. In addition he seemed to have no idea of what color backdrops to use in conjunction with the outfits that Kylie was wearing. On top of this he even spoke negatively of his own company saying that other locations, in particular the Allen Park store, was “a dump that” he “would never work at.” We were so displeased with this particular photographer’s work, ethics, and ability that for the first ime we had to bring it up with his supervisor. The supervisor look at the pictures already taken and took the time to re-shoot the sitting and get us some good shots and poses, in addition he was able to get on Kylie’s good side and get her to smile. We are hoping the Christmas sitting goes better as we are planning on giving Sears another chance and not letting this one bad experience turn us to another studio.
“Come on fireworks, you can do it!”
Tonight was Trenton’s fireworks, and considering the reaction Kylie had to fireworks the last time she saw some, I decided that I would make the trip down to see them with her. Unfortunately she did not get a nap today and she fell asleep in my truck on the way to see them. But she woke up to go watch them, but her reaction was not the same as when she saw Wyandotte’s. I blame this only a little on he lack of sleep, as she was very excited to go see them, and spoke about them all day, asking more than once “is it time to go see the fireworks now?” The fireworks themselves just weren’t very impressive, in fact they may have been the worse Fourth of July fireworks display I have personally ever seen. Granted we did not stay for the finale, but that was a direct result of them not being all that good to begin with. Kylie did still seem to enjoy them, however, and showed it with more than a few “Oohs” and “Ahhs.” The cutest thing though, was in the beginning when other boats on the river were shooting off fireworks before the city started shooting theirs. Kylie would see one go off and then there would be a lull before the next boat or that same boat shot off another, and Kylie would say “come on fireworks, you can do it!” It was super cute, and more than a few people commented on how cute she was. So even though the fireworks themselves did not live up to my hopes, the night was still a very fun time.