31/52

Week 31 and our summer holiday is finally here! We made it through the last week before our trip and the wedding in Bern. And we had so much fun catching up with old and new friends.

This week you:

• Tried to pull your eyelashes minutes before falling asleep in the evening. You have been doing this from some time, and now I know it's the sign you are drifting off.
• Enjoyed watching yourself in the mirror right after your bath. You made me wrap you in your bath towel, pick you up and dance in front the mirror. And you kept laughing like crazy!
• Behaved like a champ on our solo trip to Switzerland!
• Were the most beautiful at our friend's wedding.
• Used two packs of 64 wipes in three days...mainly to wipe yourself for fun.
• Made everyone smile during the wedding ceremony as you kept wiping the sweat off your face like an old lady.

If you are curious about this project and want to know more, you can check Jody's blog @ Che and Fidel.

All my previous posts can be found here.

Pick of the Month: July // Summer Wedding

1. Pink Baby Scalloped Edge Cardigan from Monsoon / 2. White Saltwater Sandals from SunSandals / 3. Pink Martina Satin Clutch Bag from John Lewis / 4. Sugar me up Holdall by Roxy from Surfdome/ 5. Pink Maddy Disc Hat from John Lewis / 6. Pink Flower Bud Bando from Monsoon / 7. White Baby Sara Striped Dress from Monsoon / 8. Forever Together Charm from Pandora/ 9. Pink Easy Grip Beaker from Nuby.

This July my little girl and I are prepping up for a summer wedding in Switzerland! We are going for a pink-ish theme here, mainly due to me recycling a dress I wore many years ago (and that miraculously still fit!). The dress code requires wearing a hat, and there is no way I can convince Olivia to wear one, so I'm opting for a flower bando, hoping that she won't realise she's actually wearing one!
Loving that Roxy bag, it would be perfect to keep nappies, wipes, clothes change, that colour matching beaker and all the other million things a child needs when out and about, and that I will have to bring to the wedding. Only a few days to go now!

30/52

Still enjoying the summer and this project! Lots of playing, laughing, blabbering and indoor picnics this week. And also getting ready for our holiday.

This week you:

• Had fun playing with our old matress. We fold it in two and you loved walking in the middle of it, sliding the sides, and jump on it.
• Waved mama goodbye and sent kisses when I dropped you off at nursery.
• Enjoyed the good weather with trips to the playground after dinner.
• Talked way too much, and really you are becoming such an entertainer we could spend hours just watching you doing your own things.
• Shouted 'papa wake up!' one morning, or this is what we think you said. But you repeated it twice, we both heard it, so that counts!
• Watched more children videos that normally allowed, but we all had a rough time and that helped us recover and eased our way through the week.
• Spent an entire day without a nap for the first time and didn't seem to mind. But we were nackered and put you to bed at 7.30pm.
• Said the name of your favourite toy ('nanna') for the first time. And you had to say it a couple of times before I realised that you were actually saying a new word. We are getting so used to listening to you talking!

And a lot of summer splashes in last week's portraits from  Forever Lovely. It makes me miss the beach even more!

If you are curious about this project and want to know more, you can check Jody's blog @ Che and Fidel.

All my previous posts can be found here.

The Phone Photography Project // Part 3

Made it to the third week of this phoneography project and discovered that it is really worth taking a greater care when taking pictures with your phone. I got used to the idea that phone pictures are on-the-go pictures, the ones you take for quickly snapping some on-the-moment events, without caring about the light, the background noise, the composition. It is all of that for sure, but also a lot more. Phone pictures are not less valuable than those taken with your big camera, and a good shot is always a good one regardless which device you are using. Phone pictures are the ones you are more likely to share with family and friends and the ones that you will look at more often, especially if you, like me, only delete pictures from your phone twice a year. Not in a million year I'm planning to become a professional photographer, although that was one of my dream at some point in my life, but surely it wouldn't hurt having a good collections of pictures to document our life.

Day 17: Far Away

"Everything seems simpler from a distance."

Gail Tsukiyama

Day 18: Reflection

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are." Ernst Haas

Day 19: Shadows

"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep."
Johann von Goethe

Day 20: In Season

"In summer, the song sings itself." 
William Carlos Williams

Day 21: What's Cooking

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

Fran Lebowitz

Day 22: Routine

"Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always 

been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
Henry James

Day 23: Laughter

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh."
Maya Angelou

Day 24: Bloom and Grow

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."

Hanna Rion

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