06 Feb

#366Project Week 5

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I have succumbed to the pressure of busy times and busy days and all that… I simply don’t have the time I thought I had to look for a shoot, edit and post every day… so a little compromise has to be made… and I will now be posting my 366 Project photos once a week, every Sunday.

This weeks photos are particularly awesome…

I need to start of course with Luschka’s (from Diary of a First Child) Pregnancy shoot!

It was great to seeing them all again – and long overdue – and K’s smile as she said “Hi Uncle Yuri!” and gave me a hug was just priceless! I can’t wait for Squiggly to be around and we’re planning for me to do a New Born Shoot as well so watch this space.

It was LOADS of fun for everyone and the result was just spectacular (and I am forgetting all modesty here… hehehe). I’ll dedicate a whole blog post to the shoot later, but I just think t least a couple of the photos should be included this week

Next in the list of awesome was Big Monkey’s Spontaneous Combustion snap.

Don’t be alarmed… I did not cover him in petrol and light a match on him… hehehehe…

Little Monkey found a glow stick and brought it to the bath with him… Big saw it and when it was his turn for bath time he brought another 2 with him and asked me to turn the lights off… now THAT gave me an idea… I lowered my shutter speed and clicked away… the result is what you see… AWESOME OR WHAT???

And then… FROM fire to ICE…

Well… Snow… And Snow Troopers (LEGO!!!)… And Birds… And fruits… and Slush…

And under special Request even a Tauntaun!!!!!

So… That’s it for this week’s 366 Project photos… I hope you enjoyed them… Stay tuned for more next week… and Carpe Diem… Every Diem!!!!

30 Jan

Weekend in Photos (too exhausted to write lots) #366Project

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Saturday started with an incredible and VERY rare lie in until 9am followed by a delicious breakfast composed mainly of… well… Hotwheels cars (followed by a proper brekie because I was still hungry after so much iron in my diet… )

The rest of the day was spent crashing the same cars agains each other or playing “Fight For The Ball” (our little version of rugby… or something like that… brutal… but awesome way to burn energy) with the big monkey…

Next… We started a Little LEGO project…

Still a prototype… but our Terranova Mobile Headquarters is starting to look good… Still need to solve the problem with the tracks tho… as in… they keep falling off… but The Big Monkey is happy with the result so far. He better be… it was bloody 1am by the time it was “done”. He fell asleep… I was left awake to finish it off so he could play with it in the morning… The things we don’t do for out kiddos huh?!?!?! lol

Another LEGO Started this morning before we were ready to go pick the Littlest Monkey up for Triple Monkey time.

LEGO Viking Chess! (I’m the redo ones… this is gonna be a long game! )

Triple Monkey Time!!!!!

Little was incredibly excited screaming and bouncing and saying “my baby” hugging Littlest and stroking his head. Big was happy to see him and they both flanked him and my mum (she was holding him)… At 1st he looked at them and smiled as usual… Promptly it was all a bit too much and we had tears and crying… A few cuddles later and a change in scenery (and a with a little help from Little as he took his dummy off and put it on Littlest mouth… yeah… kids come up with the simplest solutions… and damn it if they work!!!) and we were all happy and giggling again.

I even managed a rare photo (using the phone camera) of the 3 of them that Im able to publish here!!!!

LOVE IT!!!!!! Yes I do ! I do I do I do!!! 3 little monkeys… ALWAYS on the move!!!!

Talking about moving…

I should have posted the one of Little One trying to teach my mum how to ride a scooter… but you know what? I kinda sorta really LOVE that one… 5 more sleeps until I see the Monkey Trio again!

As usual at the end of Monkey Weekends… I am exhausted beyond belief… but happy as well… And bring on the week ahead!

Carpe Diem!!

22 Jan

A Letter and a Gift #366Project Day 21

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He usually writes me emails to say he misses me (or whenever he wants me to know he wants something)… I think that is why when the Big Monkey handed me this letter on Friday night I had to hold tight not to cry.

Yeah… he might be growing up… but he is still that same little boy that used to fall asleep on top of my belly… Guess this is the way I’ll always see them all. And as you can see, Little Monkey contributed to the letter too… hehehe

I now keep it in my wallet…

Carpe Diem!

21 Jan

The Party Monster

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Sometimes I worry I am starting to get old.. Okay… maybe not sometimes… maybe it is most of the time but that is beside the point… You know what I mean and all that. Once you have kids and they start having a social life that is much more agitated than yours you know you are on the way to your demise…

I mean… not so long ago (over 10 years ago… eeek) I used to be the one that would go out on a Friday Night to go clubbing and not come back home until at least Sunday afternoon after party hopping with some of my best friends. The stuff of my regular points knew me by name it was that bad… Live hard… party harder… and all that. (ROFL)

Hardcore huh?!?! As if… My circle of friends was quite healthy on the things we used to do to have fun… We might have ended up in a beach 800Km from home once but that is beside the point… I am not here to talk about me… I am here to talk about the Big Monkey today.

And Yesterday was SCHOOL DISCO NIGHT!!!

He has been so very excited about that all week long. I had to laugh hard when I picked Lil One out of the childminders and she told me how relieved he was when she confirmed to him (twice) that this weekend was not a daddy weekend because he sooooo wanted to go and was at night etc etc…

School Disco is a serious point. It involves loads of prepping and practising of dance moves (And he told me when I picked him up that he “busted all his moves”. And we got a first view of them before I went out to drop him off at the school gate (I wasn’t allowed to get out of the car this time… As if I was going to embarrass him or anything like that… the cheek!!!!)

And of course… there are the outfits… Which this time around he wasn’t too sure he had the perfect one because, and that is VERY important and relevant: His mum chose it for him. (OUTRAGE!!!)

He wanted to go to the disco wearing a waistcoat, a “Michael Jackson style” hat, fingerless gloves and sun glasses… ROFL!!!! I think I kinda see why Vic vetoed the outfit… I blame it on all the hours we’ve let him watch MTV in his baby chair when he was a baby… What??? We were in Brazil, and Vic missed home, and for a while that was the only TV channel in we had in English… hehehe…

My big boy is growing up… And way too quick as well! I was pondering on that and feeling happy that the other ones will still be a while until the other two start giving their first steps on the having an actual independent and agitated social life until I see THAT crossing in front of the camera to join his brother as he demonstrated his latest dance moves…

Yeah… I forgot Little One already HAS his own amazing little moves… Much like his big brother… He made us laugh sooooo much!! God… I just love those little moments! Gotta enjoy them as much as I can while they last… The are rare and VERY precious these days… I truly wish they could last forever…

…and in a way they will… in my mind… and in my heart…

15 Jan

Like Father Like Son #366Project Day 14

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Nothing like a nice Venti Starbucks cup to get you started with the day right?! Yeah… The Big Monkey agrees with me… Yes of course… he will only have coffee to dunk biscuits in… (I know… right?!?!? wroooong)but still! nothing better! Specially if it is a cold morning… and inside the cup there is Hot Choc!

Yes yes… I know you purist Starbucks fanatics will get mad at me again for doing that if the I am to take any lesson from when I was having tea on it last week but that is the best cup EVER to have hot choc from… why? because is huuuuge!

Carpe Diem!!!