Old Navy Flop

Very disappointing. That's a way to wrap it all up in 2 words. Bryan's Old Navy ad was supposed to run on their site today. This would be the photo that we had to cut short our travel day for, coming home from Disneyland in December. We rushed our butts off getting our luggage from the airport and throwing it in the car, along with the kids, and drove 85-90MPH to get to San Francisco by 3:30 for Bryan to do the Old Navy shoot. Supposedly they wanted him to come in there because the other baby they booked that morning didn't like the artificial grass they were shooting him on. So we get there and get dressed and primped, he does a fantastic job, they say "great photos" and "you saved the day." Told us he'd be on their site on the 22nd. So we go on the site today, all excited to see him up there and there's a little asian baby on there wearing the outfit sitting on a blanket with a sullen look on his face. Talk about a HUGE disappointment. Why bother having us do all of this when they used the other baby's photo anyhow. This business sucks.

Peek-A-Boo!

Bryan's at the age now where he's really trying to interact with other people and prove that he's a "big boy." His new thing right now is playing peek-a-boo. He LOVES it. We played it all the way to San Jose on Sunday with a blanket in the back seat. Whatever he can grab to use to hide he does. Yesterday evening I was cooking dinner and he was hanging out in the kitchen with me, crawling around. I looked down and he pulled the dish towel (yes, it was clean) off of our oven door and sat down on the floor with it over his head to play Peek-A-Boo. I had to grab some pics of this one...I love this age!

A Great Day at the Beach!

Yesterday we went up to Santa Cruz for Wesley to do his first on-site shoot. It was SO much fun. He got to model 4 different outfits and they took shots of him on the boarkwalk doing different things. They wanted the concept to be "carnival" so he ended up doing a lot of really fun shots. The clothes were AMAZING. They were all high fashion (the stuff we never buy-like at Nordstrom's) Our favorites were a tight yellow raglan tee that had big bird on it that said "Love Your Mom" and another that had an elephant on it that said "Save an animal, boycott the circus." He had a great time and I think he felt a little like an A-list celebrity. Whatever he wanted, they ran and got him. He is so smart, he was able to con a bunch of good treats out of them! In the last frame they gave us money and told me to go get his face painted with an oceanic themed character. We chose the dolphin and he came out so pretty. The magazine is called Baby Coutoure. I'm not sure when the release date is but I'll post it when it comes out...

After the "work" we went for a little stroll on the beach an collected seashells and headed over to the giant arcade where he won enough tickets to get a bunch of rubber bugs. (ewe-gross!) Both of the kids fell asleep on the way home from this eventful day. Since we don't "get out" too much everyone was exhausted. We had such a great day...

A "Giantly" sick household

So here we are today, the first day this week, feeling a bit better. Both kids were down, myself, not to be fogotten, with a terrible illness last week. Snot, high fevers, chills, aches, it was all there. Turns out after all of the tylenol and cough medicine taking that we have strept throat. After 24 hours of ammoxicillin everyone is feeling much better. Hopefully our full routine will resume by tomorrow depending on how everyone is feeling. We have kids running around the house again today and the giants won the superbowl. Oh happy day!