Documenting Two

I love the idea of taking time each year to document likes along with ages on photos. This is my latest creation with a picture taken at my son's second birthday party at the farm.

How I Did it:
First I uploaded the original to Pixlr-o-matic (PS Love that site! Plus it's an iphone ap as well.)

For this picture I used "Hagrid" color filter, the "Metal" effect and "Flowery" for the border and then saved it to my computer.

Then I opened the picture in Photoshop. I added the text in the French Script MT font in white and added a drop shadow layer effect. I also made painted in a grey cloud behind the text of his likes and set it to 50% opacity. This helps the text stand out from the background a bit more.

Not too hard at all. Pixlr-o-matic really did most of the work and I just had to add some text.

Wouldn't it be fun to have a whole book of these collected from his first 10 years or so? Or even up through graduation?

My niece trying to play with her (still-in-progress) cousin

My husband and I babysat our niece and nephew on Monday night. Our niece found some rocketship toys and she was calling them "baby rockets" and came over and was trying to "play with the baby" with the rockets.

I had my purse next to me on the couch with my camera so I started shooting what she was doing. My favorite is that In the end she sees the camera and says "cheese!"

It's interesting to me that our niece (who will be 2 next month) is super interested in my growing tummy and likes to talk to the baby and pat my belly to say hi to the baby. I'm not sure if she really understands what's going on but she talks about it a lot and likes to talk to and pat my tummy. Her older brother (almost 4), on the other hand really doesn't get it. Which is interesting to me because have been around for the growing of his little sister...you'd think the whole baby thing would make more sense to him. *shrug* Whatev. It may just be a "different kids, different personalities, different interests" thing. I'm sure he will care more once we can dress the baby up like Batman. :-D