Big Sister and Pete

Big Sister and Pete
Originally uploaded by navratil

Ahhh. So much to say.

So, I saw in Scrapbooks Etc.'s "Baby" special edition a cool two-page layout called "The Incredible Shrinking Bunny" or something like that. Basically, it was 12 photos of the baby, each of the months after his birth until one year, next to a favorite stuff animal. I thought it was cool and clever... and ripe for the stealing.

So I posed Pete in the glider, in the hopes of getting him to sit up, and put this "inchworm" toy (from my friend Becky when Claire was born) next to him for the picture. I took a few. Claire was on hand to make faces at Pete behind the camera and catch the worm if he kicked it off the chair.

However, she wanted to get in the picture, too, and kept edging her way in on the sides. With Pete getting so much camera time lately, I understood, and asked her if she'd wait just two more pictures of Pete, and then she could join in. She did, very patiently.

Although I got good pictures of Pete and his size, which was my intention, this is my favorite picture from the "shoot."

[Btw, the hat? From the "St. Patrick's Day Parade" she had at pre-school. We just unearthed it in the garage, and she insisted on wearing it all day.]