January 25, 2008

This is a layout I've been working on today in response to a challenge on one of the scrapbook websites to do a layout with the focus on journalling. I've wanted to do one anyway about my namesake, Dad's mother, Millicent McCarthy. I like the way this turned out. It was nice to put my feelings about my name and memories of a wonderful woman into a layout. It's not so bad being named Millicent when I love the only other person with that name that I've ever met.

January 24, 2008

Baby Smiles. I was babysitting Eloise tonight for Sara. We had a good time together - for the first time she was smiling, talking and laughing for me. It's hard to capture it on camera though because when it's the big black box looking at her instead of a friendly face, her smile quickly fades. Eloise is my little namesake - her middle name is Patricia.

January 23, 2008

Kenzie loves my green microfibre throw - it's so smooth and soft on her skin. She loves to wrap up in it and get cozy. She has beautiful blue eyes, ringed with darker blue.

January 22, 2008

DD Sara did a photo shoot of Layla and Charlie the other day. They've been best friends since birth - at 4 and 3 years old, Charlie is 8 months older than Layla. And now Layla is moving away and the cousins are going to miss one another a lot. They've been the subject of Sara's seasonal photo shoots for three years.

January 21, 2008

I have to put two pictures in tonight. This first one is of my five daughters and one daughter-in-law. The second DIL lives too far away to be here. We had a girls night out because we don't know when we'll all be together again because of Mary moving to BC on Thursday. They are l-r, Cindy (DIL) holding Sara's baby Eloise, Amy, Sara, Jenny (nursing baby James), Emily and Mary.




The second picture is of Jenny's baby James (the youngest of Jenny's 5 boys). He was born prematurely on December 7. His due date was January 9, so although he is six weeks old, he's the size of a two-week old baby...strong and healthy. This was his first outing with the family.

January 20, 2008

I spent the day inside scrapbooking. This is one of the two layouts I completed - the first I've done of our grand-daughter Eloise Patricia Hardwicke-Brown who was born on November 27. It's much prettier and brighter in real life.

January 19, 2008

We went out to lunch today with Sara and Quincey and their kids Charlie, Max and Eloise. Max sat up on the windowsill of the restaurant and I took this picture of him. Although he was backlit from the outside, the picture turned out remarkably good, IMHO. Three year old Max is the only boy and middle child, flanked by a four-year old sister and 7-week old sister.... poor kid. He's a real sweetie.