{"id":866,"date":"2009-01-19T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2009-01-18T22:20:46","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T05:20:46","slug":"urban-kidz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Urban Kidz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ty turned FIVE on Saturday (17th)!?? Can you believe it??? That marks the date that??some of you started reading this blog – feel like you know me quite well??? LOL.<\/p>\n

For Ty’s birthday, I decided to try an urban shoot.?? Been seeing this a lot with seniors lately and thought I’d try.?? The urban look typically uses a cityscape as a backdrop and then “punks” the color.?? (I just made that up but the color popping in urban shots tends to be extreme).?? It’s also pretty grungy (which??I like).?? I actually wanted graffiti walls but didn’t want to go look for them.?? Anyone know of any good graffiti in Phoenix in a safe area??? How about great outdoor locations for pictures??? Really cool walls, doors, lakes, parks??? I wish we had a train depot nearby but I don’t think we do.<\/p>\n

Jim and I, the kids, and my MIL went to downtown Phoenix Saturday afternoon and hunted for interesting walls and architecture.?? Fun day.?? For those of you unfamiliar with AZ, our downtown area is very different than other major cities I have visited.?? Phoenix is SO large that the majority of jobs are not in downtown Phoenix.?? In fact, I can’t think of anyone I know that actually works in the downtown area.???? There is a rail system that opened a couple of months ago – I won’t sidetrack on my thoughts on that expenditure – that was pretty interesting to see.??<\/p>\n

The bad news was Ty was not in the mood for a shoot.?? Further, we lost his glasses two weeks ago (new pair on order 260.00 later) and he was having trouble with the light.?? His eye issues cause him to be very light sensitive.?? That is, in large part, why he does that??cockeyed squinty expression in a lot of pictures.?? It dawned on me on Saturday that the poor guy is trying to see.?? His left eye has the most trouble and I started noticing that the expression is always the same.?? He raises his right eyebrow really high and then squints his left eye in response to my flash and bright sun.?? I’ll post another picture of that this week and you’ll see what I mean.?? I did get a small handful of real Ty expressions though.?? He is a cutie that’s for sure.?? I think I am noticing more crossing issues without his glasses on too.?? You can see it in some of these pictures a bit.<\/p>\n

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I know I am “the mom” – but I just gotta say it??- my son is beautiful.?? I am not finished processing this session so, as usual, you’ll see these in??a series through out the week.???? Turns out – I like urban shots.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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This is right outside Chase Field.?? Speaking of sports…how about those Cardinals??? :)?? Not a sports fan personally but even I was curious enough to look up the score tonight.<\/p>\n

My MIL said Tori looks like a little Indian Princess in this picture.?? I must agree.?? I went ahead and bought shoes at Stride Rite and they look a bit like moccasins on her.?? Combined with that colorful skirt and black hair – and Indian Princess indeed.?? :)??<\/p>\n

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Jim and his mom.???? I think she will like this picture.?? I do.?? Ty just looked over my shoulder and said “That’s Grandma and Daddy.?? I love my Daddy.”????Have I mentioned lately how nice it is to have another affirmer in the family??? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

As usual…more where this came from.?? Have lots of ideas in my head for Tori’s first birthday (2\/5).?? We’ll see how much I actually get done.??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ty turned FIVE on Saturday (17th)!?? Can you believe it??? That marks the date that??some of you started reading this blog – feel like you know me quite well??? LOL. For Ty’s birthday, I decided to try an urban shoot.?? Been seeing this a lot with seniors lately and thought I’d try.?? The urban look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}