AHHH!

Isaac commented that my blogs are getting confusing. I'm posting stuff on Hannah's blog that's not just about Hannah. And my musings blog is neglected...and the photo blog is behind...and I probably have too many blogs for people (including myself) to keep up with. So this post is mainly about Hannah:

Today especially, Hannah is trying my patience! She's wanting to nurse like every 30 mins...when she's bored, when she wants attention, when she's needy, when she's thirsty, when she's hungry, when she wants to be comforted, when she's tired. Any reason at all....she's clawing at me.

She refused to eat food (except a few crackers and a few goldfish). She'd spit everything else out. She did actually consume some grapes. She drank some juice and a tiny bit of water. She said she wanted stuff, but then would spit it out. I DON'T understand her.

She's been fighting naps. Yes, I know she's a toddler. She's tired and she falls asleep in my arms, but I try to put her in bed, and if I even move she flips out. She's having separation anxiety. I left her in her bedroom & let her cry for an hour (before she finally fell asleep for an hour nap)...and I shut myself in our bedroom.

I feel really stressed out. Hannah stresses me out. Yet she's still so cute. We were at our neighbors (M&M)and she's all "cutesy" and doing her thing... she got into some Frito chips over there. (Daddy took her over to hang out and I showed up later while he was getting the mail). When I entered she was happily eating the Fritos. I hope she doesn't react too badly to the corn in the chips.

oh well...

life goes on...

Reflections Of Christ

Carrie showed me this cool site yesterday: Reflections Of Christ

It's an amazing photographic art exhibit on Christ's life. Go check it out!

Doughnuts

Isaac had a craving for doughnuts this weekend...so here he & Hannah are making them on Sunday. I think of them more as beignets...in animal shapes... they were delish!

Hannah insisted on helping.


Daddy's instructing her

NEW LENS! yay! & updates...

My new 50mm f1.4 arrived in the mail Friday! Yay! I still haven't sent the 50mm f1.8 in yet to get fixed...but now I can.

It's been a crazy week! from getting in town Monday night, taking off all of the boards off of the windows of the house (Ike Ike Ike), to a loooong Bridal session block of time, Isaac's birthday Thursday (but we were travelling to College Station), leaving Hannah overnight with the Kimmels' (including her twin bed), to engagement session in College Station early Friday morning... (I'm finally blogging about this a week later...)

Here's a pic of Ike...it actually instilled fear in my heart watching it while I was in LA... waiting to see what would happen... Isaac being incovenienced (car shop drama & mandatory evacuation issued by the county)...and the destruction and disaster that Ike actually left in its path... :(

Here's when we were waiting and it was projected to hit Corpus...

It's a HUGE STORM! Almost the size of Texas!

Then it misses Corpus but hits Gaveston & Houston & leaves a ton of destruction.

source: www.nnvl.noaa.gov


I asked Isaac to take pics of the house all boarded up before he left (while Hannah & I were on the West Coast).




Here's some initial shots we took with the 1.4mm on Friday. Beautiful bokeh. All of the following are taken with the 1.4 - the focus takes awhile to get used to...need to be very exact. The following 2 are courtesy of Isaac! Isn't he getting good?



Here's when we picked up Hannah at the Kimmel's. Isaac disassembled her bed. He & John took it back to our place. Hannah & Stanley were getting in & out of the dog cage, so I had to take pics!


Even after Stanley left, Hannah stayed in and made herself comfortable.



This is a photo of the dog on the side...


Stanley's all happy & Hannah's at home...lounging...


This one is overexposed...and blurry...technically flawed...but still fun.

Weird

That was a weird random partial post that got reposted for Sept 7th. Hannah&Iwere in LA...so I've deleted it for those that read it (undeleted now).

She's so fussy now and totally thrown off from travelling. She's completely clingy and not wanting to nap.

I have lots to post, lots to do, and not enough time... one task at a time i guess....post more later.

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okay apparently ize posted it but it was and old post in his folder...but it's already been posted as a prior post from awhile back...

Dirt

As all kids don't grow without a little bit of dirt, I took Hannah outside to enjoy a few moments of fresh air. I really just needed to cut a few leaves off our basil plant for dinner, but I got carried away. As I looked up from my aggressive weeding program, I notice our dear sweet Hannah playing gleefully in the dirt. She happily sat on a potato mound. She dusted off the top of the mound with her sweeping arm moment that she is quite famour for at dinnertime. She put her hand to her mouth several times, which I know will just make DW cringe. Never boring with the mounds of dirt in the garden.

Labor day weekend...and other stuff...

Family came into town this weekend. It was fun. They arrived on Friday. Hannah's A-ma (my mom) came around noon by plane, and Hannah's grandpa (dh's dad) came around 4pm by truck.
Saturday the men went fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Ize was really glad that hurricane Gustav didn't bring rain and bad weather our way. It was a good father-son outing. They had a good time fishing and brought home tons of FRESH shrimp, Fresh fish and shark.

While the men were fishing, A-ma, Hannah & I went around Corpus. We initially headed to the aquarium in the afternoon, but Hannah fell asleep in the car. After driving the scenic Ocean Drive route, visiting Sun Harvest (health food store) & the uber-tiny Asian store, we finally made it to the aquarium after Hannah woke up from her nap.

I took photos of the sea life...and the front lens element on my 50mm f1.8 fell out! Of all the other things to break this past week (the CF card, the reader, now the lens). I'd read reviews about that happening to this particular lens - since it is the cheapest in the Canon line-up. I guess it's time to upgrade to the 50mm 1.4 - can't afford the 50mm 1.2 yet.

I've been super busy with a bunch of photo shoots. One Friday morning, one Saturday morning, and one this past Tuesday morning...and totally behind on photo processing...
BUT today... our NEW COMPUTER FINALLY ARRIVED ! YAY!

It's BLAZINGLY fast compared to our old laptop. Though there are still a lot of set-up issues and other stuff to take care of. Photoshop is installed on it and it's sooo much faster! Next I need to buy lightroom.

Okay...nuff photog stuff on Hannah's blog...

About Hannah....going back to Saturday. So...we discovered that Hannah DOES have a shrimp/shellfish allergy!!! DUH!!! I figured she probably DID...so I told everyone - "we're NOT going to feed Hannah any shrimp tonight."

Well...Ize & I headed to Wal-Mart for cocktail sauce, and we left Hannah with A-ma & Grandpa. A-ma tasted some of the freshly boiled shrimp and was so delighted at its wonderful taste that she gave some to Hannah....yes...she forgot...

It's funny b/c we were watching video that Grandpa Ted had taped of Hannah...and lo and behold, the "1st feeding of shrimp to Hannah" by A-ma is CAUGHT ON DIGITAL VIDEO! ...I won't dwell on it anymore b/c my mom already felt totally bad. She's getting really forgetful in her old age.

ANYWAYS...Hannah ended up breaking out with little red spots around her mouth and all over her back. We gave her 2 doses of Benadryl. One when I 1st noticed the spots on her mouth...and I asked mom, "did you fed her shrimp?" and then more Benadryl after her bath when there were a ton of spots on her back.

Monday on Labor day, Grandpa Ted made yummy omelettes and we went to the Lexington. It's a big ship. We watched the Fighter Pilot IMAX movie. It was pretty good. We did a lot of stuff this weekend...including watching Kung-fu Panda & 10,000 B.C.

We also went to ChuckECheese on Tuesday for a playdate...

I'm too tired to write anymore... photos to be posted later....

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1st round of photos - all SOOC b/c I don't wanna edit them:
A-ma has been Hannah's personal horse lately





oh...and the thing on her nose is her scab from when she fell down at the event thing last Wednesday (the night that I lost all the photos I took of the event). She was standing on the window sill and apparently she fell - hitting her nose in the process...I turned around and she was already on the floor crying...






Now these are from the aquarium:

Hannah's eating these dried anchovy things that my mom insisted on giving her...much to my dismay...sigh...(I sense a trend here)...





These at the end were all taken all manually...I had to make things work...manual focus (b/c of the busted front lens element) manual settings (b/c it's actually easier in constant indoor light)...and I was proud of myself for being able to focus...(b/c my eyes were actually dry and blurry...)

more photos to come....