I am so far behind on blogging, and I know everyone is anxious for more wedding images! I promise they'll be coming soon. I'm so busy processing proofs and launching galleries and filling orders that I haven't had much time for blogging lately. So in the meantime, I thought I'd post some images from my nephew Liam's shoot back in April. Big man turned 2 last week, and I can hardly believe it. He is now speaking in full sentences, answering questions with emphatic responses ("YESSS!" and "NOOOOoooo"), and thanks to the handy and slightly insane 3-day training system, he is now 100% potty-trained. He also pulls a few fancy stunts here and there.

A few weeks ago he came over to hang with me for a couple of hours. Here's the scene: Liam and I are sitting at the kitchen table. He's eating some watermelon. I'm shelling some peas. Liam looks interested in the peas, so I put a few in front of him and he starts munching away quite happily. I look down for one hair of a milli-teeny-tiny-second at the pea pod I'm shelling, and when I look back up, he's got his finger fully up his shnoz. He looks at me, blinks calmy and says, "NOOOoooose."

Oh yes. That tiny little pea was jammed right up there. And not just inside his nose, but way, WAAAYYYY up. You're never gonna see that pea again up. After a few moments of panic from me, lots of giggles from Liam, and a ridiculous amount of fake-nose-blowing from me, I finally managed to get him to blow it back out. Crisis averted.

Anyway, in addition to being quite entertaining, his shenanigans make for some great photos. Here are some of my favorites from the last shoot we did -- on a 95 degree afternoon this April. We started out on the little playground at the school nearby.....

Uncle Jed came out to help and got roped into going down the slide a few times, too!

Here's the infamous "point". Liam's not a baby anymore, but he still has those great little chubby baby hands....

This was the exact moment where Liam learned what "static cling" means.

Then we headed over to grandma & pop-pop's house for a ride on his favorite thing in the world.....the tractor. Here we are, looking for the tractor.

....And getting angry when his mom decided to feed him a banana before the ride. Nothing stands in the way of Liam and his tractor.

Pop-pop came out and surprised Liam in the middle of his tractor ride. Liam is CRAZY about Pop-pop.

Exhibit A: the Sadie

Exhibit B: the Hayden

Exhibit C: the Sadie & Hayden duo

Exhibit D: Sadie voices her discontent with the evil picture taking machine/chew toy

Exhibit E: Yum.

This is the story of one very creative little girl on a rainy morning, and her empty box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Well....I guess that WAS the whole story.

And these were the results:

The end.

This morning, at 9 am my newest nephew -- Ty -- joined the world. Words cannot describe what it is like to be nearby at the birth of any baby...but especially one who you know will be in your life from today until forever. It's incredible.

Ty was delivered via cesarian, and I arrived with two very excited grandmas just as Mer was about to head into the operating room. Click here to see Ty's first slideshow!

And congratulations to little Liam who is now a big brother (and his mom and dad -- Mer & Jake -- who are now parents to TWO little guys!)

The stats: 6 lbs. 6 oz. 19 inches long. Born into this crazy world at 9:01 am, Wednesday, May 21, 2008.

I spent this morning doing something really cool.

I'm on the board for our local arts council and when I can, I volunteer my photography services as well. This morning, I got to hang with Cookie Monster's pal -- Gordon, from Sesame Street (aka Roscoe Orman). What a cool, interesting guy! I followed him as he toured a few local daycare centers and spent some time with the kids. They were so excited to see him!

Here are a few of my favorites:

By the way, Roscoe recently wrote and illustrated his own children's book! It's called Ricky & Mobo and it's based on parts of his own childhood -- you can read more about it here! I can't wait to check it out.