Birthday Card - Snapshot of the Week

Linking up with Happily Mother After today...for Snapshot of the week.

Off to celebrate with my boy - I'll post more this weekend about my day...and gift! Happy Friday. 

BIG and small

One of IV's favorite books is Winnie the Pooh's - Pooh's Favorite Tree. In the book, there is a line from Owl, who enjoys sitting in the tallest branches of that tree and looks out on the 100 Acre Wood - thinking about the BIGNESS and SMALLNESS of things.

That can be said for what happened this morning -

At 8am, the doorbell ran - my new home office desk arrived! I started to organize and clean out my old desk, which always leads to reminiscing and looking through IV's medical folder from the day he was born. I found his medical bracelet and ankle bracelet. I could not believe the size of the ankle bracelet. It's not cut, because it fell off when we got home because it was a little too BIG. I think about how BIG that day was for us and how BIG I thought he was - yet he was so small, so tiny on such a BIG day.

And today, that ankle bracelet would barely fit on his chunky little toe. My boy is so BIG, yet still my baby.

Enjoy those BIG and SMALL moments - they go by way too fast.

Innocent vs Not

Sweet and innocent:

And not:

Regardless, he's still stinkin' cute. Happy Monday .



TGIF

Happy Friday!

Yesterday we got our first snow storm here in New England! So we bundled up, grabbed the sled and went out for a walk. A lot of work - for about 10 minutes outside, but well worth it. These are a few of the photos I snapped with my phone. Clearly - he was having a blast.



And after we warmed up - my adorable little model was good enough to let me snap some photos of him for my Valentines Day Card special - be sure you check it out. Even if you aren't in the New England Area - Send me your favorite photo and I'll personalize a Valentines day card for you - for print or web viewing.

Snippets of our Day:

I did it!

I did it. I finally decided to start my own photography business - Allison Mary Photography. For now, this will still be my hobby and something I will do on the side. I will remain a stay at home Mom to IV and a full time marketing manager from my home office.

This is what I love to do...I'm beyond excited.

So if you are from the New England area or know anyone that is - please feel free to pass along my name. And - if you click on the camera button above, it'll take you to my new website - you can link up and like me on Facebook, follow me on twitter or even check out my Pinterest page.

And what would a post be without a few pictures of my biggest fan:

First week of 2012

Happy New Year! It's funny - I asked Stew what the protocol was for saying Happy New Year to people. How far into January is it socially acceptable to say Happy New Year to someone? His response was - "You can say it any time during the year if you haven't seen that person yet". Ha...I beg to differ.

So here is what the first 7 days of our New Year looked like:

We stayed in on New Years Eve - had a ton of food and drinks with my parents. We actually went to bed at 11:30, but hey...8 month olds are chipper at 7am and they don't care if you had too much to drink the night before.

Pictures are via my iphone:

Mom and I eating oysters.

We were up bright and early on New Years day - to head down to Foxboro for the Patriots game. My parents watched IV for us - and even got him home, he had his bath and they put him down for us. Ahhh...what a treat, as always.

Awesome way to kick off the New Year - 50+ degrees

Us with my boss and his wife.

On Monday - I had my first Newborn shoot! I spent over 3 hours taking photos and just yesterday I mailed the family their CD. My two boys came along as well - we know the family personally.

| I snapped this during my shoot |

These are some of my favorites:

Tuesday it was back to reality - back to the grind. I really don't know what happened to my baby, but all of a sudden he's a big boy. TWO...yes TWO teeth now. Top tooth and bottom! That's a far cry from a 1/2 a tooth on Christmas. He now will not sleep on his back...he's always on his belly and he loves to pull himself up and stand. It's amazing how quick it changed.

My boy - heading out the grocery store:

This is supposed to be nap time.

My little bed head.

So that's our first week of 2011. 

It's nap time. I need to shower and get ready to head out to our lunch date with my Mom. Happy Weekend!

And stay tuned - I have an announce time make: No, baby number 2 isn't on it's way! It has to do with my side business.