The Great Stella Rescue

We had a Stella emergency today. Gabe left her at the park yesterday and I went to look for her this afternoon. After looking under all the playground equipment, a couple of teachers from their school asked what I was looking for. I said "a doll".

The teacher pointed to the tree and asked "that doll?"

Yup, that would be the one. He said he saw a couple of boys manhandling her yesterday and then they threw her up in the tree.

I wasn't sure what to tell Gabe - but after school we went to the park to have a look. I was worried he would be traumatised, but he thought it was pretty funny that Stella "climbed all night long" to get up in the tree. I decided we needed to go and buy some rope to assist in the rescue operation, and he was really reluctant to leave the park. He gave a couple of rounds of "STELLLLAAAAA" (which cracks me up every time), "we'll be back."

As you can see, she's pretty high up.

Mike joined us on our rescue mission and held Gabe up to see if he could reach her.



The rope turned out to be unnecessary - a full waterbottle did the trick.



And, once she was down, Gabe wanted her to go back up again. So up she went.



And down she came, much to his joy.



And one of Isaac, just because. This is such a typical expression. He's so funny.

DaBaby is da bomb

I was at a tradeshow this weekend and came across these t-shirts, made by Tracy and Darwin of DaBaby. I couldn't stop laughing. I'd actually walked out the door, but had to come back to get these shirts.

I love their stuff, check out DaBaby's website.

Trying to get my boys to pose for some shots was kind of interesting.

Here are some poses. Everyone says Isaac is such a happy baby. Well, he is, until he's not (scroll down to see). His says "I'm such a freaking ray of sunshine, aren't I."

And, being an 80's girl, I could not resist the ACDC inspired shirt. (For those about to read, we salute you.)

My sunshine, at his shiniest best.

My sweet dude, who loves his books.
And a little more sunshine.

Nicola - how you've grown!

It was so great to see Nicola and Reshawn. I couldn't get over how much she's grown and changed.

Reshawn said Nicola is the easiest baby - and she was so great during our session. After we made her lie on her tummy for some photos, she cried for a bit, but other than that, she was so happy and easy going. (Reshawn said the crying was because she was slacking as a mother and didn't give Nicola any tummy time, so she isn't used to it. I say its because Reshawn is an awesome mama who holds her baby lots and lots.)

A sweet moment.
Check out those pipes! Nice definition.
And Her Happiness, herself.
All dressed up. Baby girl clothes are sooooo cute. And so terribly impractical. But, great for photos.
This is my favourite picture. The look of total trust in Nicola's eyes is beautiful.
And all wrapped up in the ducky towel after bath time.

Thanks for having me over again.