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Action shot… she’ll only go forward, inchworm style, when there’s something worthwhile. Apparently the lens cap was good enough. I love the symbolism of crawling away from her toy basket to reach something that Mama likes, which surely means it’s more interesting.

A successful grab… or is this a Nikon ad? I love how she’s holding it just perfectly. I wonder if there’s a way to submit this photo to them. Haha.

She grabbed a page of a magazine I had intended to save. Luckily it wasn’t one that I really really wanted. My selflessness has limits, okay? I was working on my mostly-useless-but-makes-me-happy collection of Martha articles cataloged in binders. It’s a silly thing that lets me feel like I’m doing a project for me.

I love the “oooh!” face. Can’t help it.

Still absurdly behind in blogging and still not stressing over it. I haven’t even uploaded all the pictures to flickr. Hehe. I’m working on it, though. I realized that I haven’t been taking enough pictures so I had a few little photo sessions with the little Miss M this last week. I like these, so we’ll call them her 8 month old pictures. Yeah, there we go.

Speaking of the whole 8 month thing, I’m constantly torn between not wanting her to grow at all and also being really excited for her to learn and experience the next phase. And I sometimes am really looking forward to having a little more time to myself, but I realize that when that time comes I’ll probably be following HER around wanting to play. And as much as I sometimes think I do want some time alone, in those few rare minutes where I haven’t been right by her I feel a little panicked. And it doesn’t help that after about three minutes where she can’t see me she howls. This, I am sure, I will also miss when she grows out of it. It’s a constant dichotomy, you see.

Please ignore the fact that a good majority of the pictures I take are in this same spot. We have limited sources for natural light that also make decent photo backdrops around these parts.

A little blurry, but this face is the total Morgan face to me. She’s diving forward a little, which she does a lot. She is curious about everything. And often just looks happy.

I really like this picture. However, she was constantly moving and I was using the manual settings and it’s overexposed on the face.  And I think her dear pale skin reflected even more light. (Gee, I can’t imagine where she would have inherited such skin…) I tried to fix it a little but it was hard to do without darkening the background way too much. So I decided to  not do any more to it because at my skill level I was likely to just ruin it. Any tips?

The teeth! The teeth! I have tried to no avail to get a good picture of them before more grow in. So I was excited to have a picture where you can actually see them, no matter how shadowed. Hehe.

And this, I think, may be my favorite of all. Hard to choose. Of course I’m quite biased, but I think she’s darling.

Time is somehow flying by…

…and this little one is six months old. She is so much fun, and it’s amazing to watch her grow and change and learn. Sometimes it’s so gradual that I barely notice it until I look back at old pictures. I love it when she’s snuggly (though of course she always likes being held, it’s just that she usually likes to be standing). She grabs everything and is sitting up more on her own. Her favorite book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar–good choice, I say. When we read that one she sits with rapt attention and smiles each time we turn the page, especially to the “he was a big fat caterpillar” page. We’re so grateful to have her here!