Newborn, Baby and Children's Photography in Melbourne :: Kristen Cook {The Blog}

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

Day 26: Happy Australia Day everybody! (and as an aside, why aren’t my thigh rolls and bum cellulite as cute as his?)

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

Day 24: For some reason, Charlie Boy thinks that ‘peek-a-boo’ is the funniest thing ever. He giggles uncontrollably most of the time when you say it to him, and watching his little face light up is enough of a reward to keep you going back for more.

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

Day 23: Mia loves it when I feed Charlie. She often sits beside me just watching him, stroking his hair or giving me a cuddle. Like most toddlers with new siblings, she’s now bestowing the same lovely attention on her dolls. She sits down on the couch and feeds each one (making sure to burp them before switching sides, of course), and then if they’re “still hungry”, they’ll have some more. Watching the look on her face is the nicest part though. It’s the beautiful look of concentration and care that seems to come over her – she is a beautiful, sweet soul. So enamoured with her baby brother, and everything that goes with it.

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

Day 21:  I feel like I’m having a bad case of déjà vu with this project. Charlie is going through a horrid catnapping stage during the day and it’s driving me a bit insane. It doesn’t help that the both Charlie and Mia are now sharing a room together as of a few days ago. Mia loves it – she thinks it’s a party when Charlie goes to bed. They sit there and talk to each other through the rails of Charlie’s cot, and I have to admit, it melts your heart a bit hearing them giggling at each other.

They often do the same thing in the car at the moment. Charlie will look over at Mia with a massive grin on his face, and Mia will giggle at him, which in turn makes me laugh. It is amazing how something like that can bring you so much joy. Something like a cheeky giggle can be so small and simple, but just mean so much.

This was how I found Charlie when only 30 minutes after putting him to bed I heard lots of giggling and gurgling going on in the bedroom, and so decided to go in and check. Go on, tell me who could get mad at that?!

Day 22: Mia can’t get enough of daycare. It’s one of the few ways we can willingly get her into bed at night just by mentioning that the next morning she’ll be going there to visit. Her little eyes light up and sparkle. I never thought we’d get to this stage though. She’s such a mummy’s girl and so wary of strangers that I was worried when she first started how she would cope long term. Now, I barely get a wave goodbye as she runs in to play with the other kids, and trying to bring her home again usually involves some sort of bribery. Yep, she loves it!

One of her favourite parts is packing her bag for the day. She takes such delight in helping me prepare her lunch and snacks and lovingly packs it all away, and does up all of the zips at the top. The bag then goes on her back (with mummy’s help, of course) and she trots off to put her shoes on and get in the car ready to leave.