just an update

I haven't given an update in a while, so I thought I would tonight. Carlee is now 25 lbs! She's getting pretty tall too, but I don't remember exactly the measurements. Her vocabulary is growing everyday. One of these day's I'll have to try to make a list to see how many words she's up to now. She knows a bunch of colors already, blue, red, purple, yellow, green, brown, black, and pink! She knows a few letters and is even starting to learn a few numbers as well. We also just found out that she's really good at puzzles (the kind with the interlocking pieces!) I was really amazed at how fast she picked that up. She's starting to sing when she's playing by herself. She pretends like crazy! It's so adorable. And of course she gets the 2 year old bratty attitude once in a while lol. Will try to post some new pics soon.
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reading and hello!

the rest of the park pics

Click here for the park pics on snapfish... keep in mind a lot of them are blurry. She's just always on the move! :) Enjoy!

how is this possible?

Less than a year ago (August 2006):

Today:

Playing at the Park

I love photography for its power to make you stop and really soak in all of the details. We took the 55-200 lens out today to the park... oh and to let Carlee play. lol.... After the first few pictures, we looked at the camera and were so amazed at how big she's gotten. We don't notice it on a day to day basis, but when we stopped to really look, we saw it. She's grown a lot.

Anyway, we played with the bigger lens, and while the pictures looked fine on the camera's screen, after uploading them to the computer, we found out that most were out of focus. It's hard to stay completely still with the longer lens and then to take pictures of a moving toddler is even harder. :D I uploaded all of them to snapfish, but I'm still waiting on the link. I even uploaded the blurry ones, because most of them still show such great expression on Carlee's part. The focused ones are priceless though. We all had fun... we'll have to practice with this lens a lot more, so look foward to more pictures! :)
Here are a few of my favorites:

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS ONE:

sorry it took so long - Birthday Song Video