Ty was looking over my shoulder when I created this Tori panarama and said “How did you DO that??? There are so many Toris!!!

Last week I saw a picture that a photographer had taken during a senior photo shoot (idea for you Jennifer).?? The senior was taken to an outdoor jungle gym and posed in various places.?? The final picture was a collection of about 7 poses on the gym.?? I thought it was way too fun and a great way to capture several moments and expressions in one shot.?? I plan to use this “style” more often just for fun.?? I am taking Braxtyn’s two year old pictures tomorrow so I’ll have to think of something.?? This one would have better if she wasn’t overlapping but I was trying to keep it “real”.

For this picture, I set my camara on a tripod and then fed the kids breakfast.?? I would walk back in every couple of minutes and shoot a picture.?? I wanted to capture the amount of space she travels to over a 20 minute period of time.?? This rug is probably a 5×8 footer maybe??? She covered most of it.?? She actually stuck pretty close to center this time – of course – because I was photographing it.?? Last night she got under the coffee table trying to eat Tanner’s shoe.

She is officially ARMY crawling!?? You just can’t make the kind of progress in a room that she does without it.?? She is not a pro at it yet but she does use her legs to propel her forward.?? She isn’t as coordinated with the arms but she is getting there.?? She is now really getting into the habit of getting into a normal crawl position on all fours as well.?? She is actually in that position in the above picture but she is blocked by another “Tori” 🙂 so you can’t see it.????Remember those blanket coffee table pictures I took of her as a newborn??? She is wearing the same??outfit.?? Can you believe she can STILL wear this??? The legs only look short in the picture because they are hiked up from crawling around.

CS3 has a photomerge option that aligns all the layers for you and then you just have to “mask off” all the areas you want.?? It really was pretty easy.??

Her bow is missing on the “final” shot which is the one on the far left because I had to stop her from destroying it.?? She had it off and was sucking the life out of it.?? Not sure it is salvagable now.?? The photo shoot ended at that point.?? :)?? I was going to try to get a collage of Ty playing his video game yesterday because he literally bounces everywhere when he plays but I didn’t have a wide enough angle to capture him in the playroom.??

Speaking of Ty…he was in rare form yesterday.?? He spilled a pint of blueberries all over my floor (blueberries he had been told not to get into) and I said “Ty that just makes me angry”.?? He said “Well that makes ME angry”.?? (Meaning me being angry is making him angry).?? I told him he couldn’t speak to me like that but also had to acknowledge that what he said was probably very truthful.???? Later in the day he ASKED for the blueberries and I said he could have some only to discover later that he ate the ENTIRE pint!??

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I want to write more about the book that YES I FINISHED DAD but that will be a work in progress.?? Tori is up now and about to fuss for breakfast.?? If you want anything “deeper” – you’ll have to go to www.papaponderings.blogspot.com for today LOL.

Finished Ryker’s pictures – will start posting that series pretty soon.

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