day 9: Today I was exhausted. The solo trip down to San Diego to meet baby Olive was SO worth it, she was amazing, but when I got back to LA I was officially wiped out. The babies didn’t exactly reward me for my efforts by being great sleepers (oh, ok…. Paul was a great sleeper, Amelia woke up at least 3 times last night) so I was beyond tired when I got out of bed this morning. I decided that our “outing” today would be to the beach, but I got going on the PCH going north and couldn’t find a good spot to get out and take a stroll. I actually couldn’t find a spot to u-turn either and by the time I did it was time to turn around and head home for baby lunch. Sheesh. What a morning. I figured at least I’d be able to pull over for a quick snap for the blog of the beach.. but in Malibu there are houses or fences always blocking your view of what you want to see. This is as close as I got to the beach today… behind a chain link fence and across a field. Oh well. At least the babies napped in the car 🙂

day 8: This morning the peanuts and I drove down to San Diego to meet Valena & John’s new arrival, Olive Marie who was born last night. She is the most beautiful baby I’ve ever seen (except for my peanuts of course!) Here is one of my favorite pictures of her… for more you can check out the baby blog

day 7: I am so proud of myself for completing a whole first week of photo-rific WHILE being a mom of twins 🙂 It may sound silly but it’s hard for me to stick to anything every day while I’m so so busy! I know I said I was only going to do one baby photo a week but this one was just too cute to pass up! Tomorrow I’m going down to San Diego to meet Valena and John’s new baby girl (hopefully born sometime tonight, go Valena go!) so I will definitely be posting a photo of the new lady 🙂

day 6: This morning we walked into the nursery to find Mr. Paul not only on his side half flipped over (see here for clarification)but fully flipped onto his belly. He was just snoozing away and he looked so very comfy! He actually slept an entire 12 hours last night without waking up (a much appreciated first) and I have a hunch it has something to do with his new-found sleeping position. Way to go Mr. P!

day 5: Ben’s parents are in town for the weekend visiting and catching up with the peanuts and since I take the babies out and about from 11 to 1 every day we decided to do the same while they were in town. This morning we headed out with our BOB (our stroller, if you don’t know what it is check out this post) to the beach boardwalk for a little stroll. Both babies eventually took a little snooze so we decided to take advantage of the situation and sit down to a nice lunch outside on the beach. Yep. We had lunch. Out. At the beach. Amazing how your life slowly comes back piece by piece as the babies get older. We can do so much more than we could even 2 months ago. Here’s Ben explaining social networking sites to his dad at lunch 🙂

day 4: For valentine’s day Ben got me a macro ring flash. Supposedly it’s useful for taking macro shots since while you’re super close to things you block out available light with your body and camera, this puts the light really close to your subject. What Ben REALLY got it for though was a clever trick to get babies to look at the camera. They love lights and this puts the light right at the lens so they’ll stare at it. It’s pretty bright so I don’t think I’ll put it in their face very often… but maybe sometimes 🙂 Anyhow, we were testing it out. It leaves a kind of eerily even tone to the picture, but it does make fancy circular catch lights in the eyes. Hmn. I think I need more practice with it.

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day 3: I’ve been in need of a haircut for a long time. Trouble is I’m on mom duty 24/7. I’m with them all day at home by myself during the week and then I spend an awful lot of time with them on the weekend as well. And if I’m not helping around the house on the weekend then I’m trying to catch up on work. Thus not a lot of time for haircuts. I was at the grocery store late last night and noticed that the haircut place next door was open til 9 so I figured I’d go in after baby bedtime today and get it done. Bad idea. When walking into a hair salon 30 minutes before close on a Thursday you will end up with a Russian woman with very poor command of the English language who gives you a bob no matter how many times you tell her that is not what you want. Oh well. Here it is. I will have to get a re-cut soon.

day 2: See look at me… posting again on day 2! I told you I would 🙂 The idea of me starting up again was to document what I do every day this year. I take the babies on one “outing” a day, partly to get them used to going out of the house, but mostly so I don’t go stir crazy. The goal is to do my photo-rific posts while we’re out but unfortunately today was not a fun outing. The babies got their monthly RSV vaccine today so I didn’t really feel like snapping a photo in the pediatrician’s office. The silver lining for the peanuts was that today they got to try sweet potatoes…. yum! They both loved ’em!

Ok… so I know I’ve had a few false starts here but I really and truly am starting up photo-rific again! I just got a book in the mail that I made from my first year of photo blogging and let’s just say I LOVE IT!! It is ridiculously cool to see a whole year in pictures in book form. So here goes another photo-rific year with bigger better pictures and a few new rules: No more than one baby photo per week, and no more than one day late for posting (aka no big catch up posts). I certainly can find time to take and post ONE photo per day… how hard could it be 🙂

Day one photo: the book that inspired me to start back up again

Wow it has been SO long since I posted on photo-rific! I pretty much reached the one year mark and petered out even though I was planning on going for another year.

I’m happy to announce, however, that there is a good reason for the lack of posting. For the last 9 months or so I’ve been very busy being pregnant with two beautiful twin babies! If you weren’t already “in the know” about the babies, feel free to check out the baby blog, with photos and updates regularly, for more info. baby-rific.blogspot.com

I am also going to be starting back up on the daily photo posting on photo-rific so stay tuned here as well.

To kick things off here is a shot of beautiful Amelia and handsome Paul 🙂