For instance, Avery's consistently had a hard time going to sleep this past week and I know it hasn't been from teething each time, so instead of allowing myself to cater to her bad habits (picking her up each time to find out she only wanted my attention), I decided to let her cry it out last night. It worked alright, so I felt I made a good decision. Tonight I tried the same thing but broke too early and picked her up. Good thing, because she developed a poo diaper. Imagine how I would have felt tomorrow morning after ignoring her cries and found out she had one sore bum. Ack!
It's instances like these that destroy my resolve to teach discipline. At the same time, I know I should just try to make my best judgement and hope I'm not wrong. It's tough. I don't want to be a pushover parent, but I'd hate for my kid to suffer from my bad judgment. Life is a learning lesson so I'll just take this in stride.
As a side note, Avery still didn't want to go back to bed so we let her stay up; apparently she wasn't tired. She has been hilarious tonight, cozying up with dad and laughing and just wanting all the attention (and getting it because she's so dang cute about it). She'll peer at us while we read our books until we pick her up and read her a book. She trots around with my phone, making real conversation with nobody. I just love watching this little child!
Here's some recent pics for you:
BYU Baseball game
Sitting around at mom and dad's kickball game
Of course, reading with dad. She actually LIKES reading now!
Avery on the phone!
2 comments:
She must be who Katelyn talks to on my phone! What a cutie!
She is a total cutie. I love your pictures of her. It shows that you are a good mom in the fact that you care so much about the little girl.
Glad to see you out supporting the cougs!
Oh, I'll answer your question on our photo blog, but basically we are always looking for good, natural light. We never use flash and try to always use a natural reflector. In these pictures it is basically a nice open window facing east in the mid morning. The light comes into the room and bounces off of the opposite wall to give an even light with very little shadow. When we see heavenly light we basically drop whatever we're doing and run for the camera!
Hope that helps. Oh ya, it is actually a really light purple wall that we are shooting up against, but the good lighting gave it a nice feel you see in the pictures.
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