Look Who’s Walking Now [Photos]

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Kris

As some people have bore witness to already, our son is up on two feet with nothing standing in his way these days. I had also promised early last week to share some photos and a little video of Christian showing off his latest talents, so it’s time to make good on that promise.

Here are a few images from us with Christian shooting out in the hallway of our condo building.

Maybe it was just a little cabin fever being smack in the middle of winter these days, but both of us had fun running through the halls with Christian for a little bit on Sunday. It seems he gets a kick out of it, too, when you’re standing next to him one second and taking off full speed the other way. Seems like foreshadowing to some great afternoons outdoors this spring and summer.

Fortunately, no other tenants were disturbed during the photo session or the shooting of this video.

– Kris

X-Mas Morning [Photos]

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Kris

Do you remember your first x-mas morning at the early age of one? Me neither.

At least Christian will have photos to look back to, anyway.

While he obviously had know concept of waking up early for presents, something with his internal clock woke him up about 30 minutes earlier than usual. We still managed to get through the normal morning routine, however, before getting to the presents around 10am. We didn’t go overboard with presents this first year, so there wasn’t a ton to open.

But as you can tell, he still had fun.

– Kris

New Tradition – Annual Family Calendar

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Kris

With the x-mas holiday now in the books, we can spill the beans about one of the presents we gave out this year – a 2012 calendar with photos from our family this past year.

Family Photo Credit: Kamila Lonska – klonphoto.com

We gave out three of these calendars, and kept one for ourselves. We created them using iPhoto and they came out brilliantly to say the least. It is definitely something we plan on doing next year, and then repeating each year for the foreseeable future.

This about it, how cool is it to have a calendar with our monthly photo of our growing son, literally a snapshot in time. By age 5, we’ll have 60 months worth of photos and it will be so easy to flip through each and see the progression year after year. Pretty neat.

New Photo Project

After the end of the Daily Baby Project, the next photo project was announced last week on my photography website. It’s named (for now, anyway) the 52 to Two project. It’s a simple project promising to do a weekly photo shoot of Christian for each of the 52 weeks leading up to his 2nd birthday. And while the Daily Baby project was shot using my smartphone camera, these weekly shoots will be the real deal and something to be very proud of when all is said and done.

You can follow the best of each weekly shoot as they happen over at my photography site as well as on my photography Facebook page. I also plan on posting some of the shots here every week depending on how time goes. 2012 is shaping up to start off as a very busy year, but we’ll do our best to keep the photos coming for everyone to enjoy.

The photo shoot from this week was – of course – Christian opening up some of his x-mas gifts. I should have photos posted here in the next day or so.

Until then,
– Kris

Playtime [Photos]

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Kris

Now that the Daily Baby project is officially completed, and the baby luau in the books, I’m already into my new weekly project covering the second year for our little guy.

More details on the project coming soon, but on Sunday Christian and I hung out in the nursery for about a half hour and I captured a glimpse of playtime that I wanted to share with everyone that’s been wondering what he’s been up to after turning the Big O-N-E.

Enjoy the photos,
– Kris

Christian’s Baby Luau [Photos]

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Kris

Well, the first year has come and gone, and we had a great baby luau to celebrate Christian’s first birthday.

And as you’d expect, Papa was there with camera in hand to capture all the fun times. We were so happy that our friends and family could be there to celebrate with us, and even the ones that couldn’t make it were still able to drop in to say Aloha!

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As we look ahead to what this next year has in store for our ‘ohana, we are truly blessed with all the support we’ve received during our first year as parents. It’s been so great being able to share the happiness our son brings us with all of you.