The 52 Project- September & October

Corrine
When I sat down to post my October pictures for The 52 Project, I realized that I never posted my September pictures (probably because I was beside myself...I lost the online photo album and had to start over).  Here are the September pictures...

The 52 Project- a portrait a week for a year.  

36/52 (9/7) First day of Polliwog class at Steele.

37/52 (9/14)  Snuggling with Winston.

38/52 (9/21) First dentist appointment.

39/52 (9/28) Hiking with daddy.

40?52 (10/5)  Looking out the window.

41/52 (10/12) Hiking outside of Leadville.


42?52 (10/19) At a friends wedding reception

43/52 (10/26) Carving pumpkins for the front porch.

Can you believe another year is almost over?  It has gone so fast.  I finished re-creating my photo album and I obsessively hit the save button.

The 52 Project- August

The 52 Project
The 52 Project- a portrait a week for a year.  These are the pictures for August.  Wow.  August.

31/52- At the Renaissance Festival
32/52-  Also at the Renaissance Festival
 33/52- Using her Craftsman tool chest to help put bookshelves together.
34/52- At the beach in San Francisco.
35/52- Eating ice cream with Jupiter.
Is it me or are the months going faster and faster?

The 52 Project- July

The 52 Project
Another month of The 52 Project has come and gone (it just means this summer has FLOWN by). 
The 52 Project is a portrait a week for a year.   For the month of July we have:
27/52 (7/6)- Pretty in pink...Ballet class this summer.
 28/52 (7/13)- napping in the laundry basket with her stuffies.
 29/52 (7/20)- I love her devilish grin- she's going to the water park with daddy.
 30/52 (7/27)- On the climbing wall at the Mt. Carmel Bazaar.


The 52 Project- May & June

Corrine
Well.  I certainly have been a slacker.  I've had all of these photos on my computer, but I've not done anything with them in ages.  I haven't organized them in flikr... I haven't put them into my shutterfly album... and I haven't posted them.  

May 2014
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June 2014
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And that brings us to the halfway point of the year!  Wait. What?  The year is half over already?

Have a great rest of the weekend!

The 52 Project- April

Corrine
The 52 Project- A portrait a week for a year.  These are the pictures for April 2014.

14/52 (4/6)- Just hanging out with baby.
14/52 (4/13)- Corrine is becoming quite the climber.  Pretty soon she'll be scaling the walls at the rock gym. 

16/52 (4/20)- In St. Paul Minnesota for mama's cousins wedding.  She picked out her outfit herself. 
17/52 (4/27)- hiding under the plum bush.  

The 52 Project- March

The 52 Project
I have been slacking a little in the picture department.  I have a bunch of them, but the are spread between my ancient ibook and my new MacBook.   I finally have had the time to consolidate my 52 project pictures in one place for future ease.  The 52 Project is a portrait a week for a year.

9/52 (3/2) At the park.

10/52 (3/9)  Her bike needed "gas"

11/52 (3/16)  Dancing with school friends.

12/52 (3/23)  She has wanted the kitties to sleep with her for ages.  Finally, one did!

13/52 (3/30) Corrine and Connor at Winter Park. 

The 52 Project- February

The 52 Project
The 52 Project- a portrait a week for a year.   Here are the pictures for February.
 5/52- Corrine skiing at Mary Jane.  She could be the next Olympic skiing star!  
 6/52- Daddy bath duty!
 7/52- helping daddy wax his skis
8/52- rockin' the piggies

Three!

Corrine
I'm not quite sure how it is possible.  My sweet baby girl is three today!  Where did the time go?  Every one said it would fly by.  It most certainly did.  
Corrine at 1 month 
For her first year we took a picture of her with Henrietta Hippo every month on the 13th.  She has gone from being dwarfed by Henrietta to holding her! 
Corrine today
I can hardly believe that we've gone from a tiny baby on oxygen and a feeding tube in the NICU to an
In the NICU the day after she was born
inquisitive, talkative, outgoing, social, friendly, beautiful three year old girl.   She has made me a better person.  She has made me a more patient person (only sometimes though) and I have loved watching the world through her eyes rather than my own old and jaded eyes.  

Happy Birthday Corrine.  Mama and Daddy love you so very much! 

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The 52 Project
The 52 Project
A portrait a week for a year.  The final week.  Thank you for going on this journey with me.  I have loved watching my sweet baby girl grow from the beginning pictures of 2013.  I look back and am in awe of her changes and it doesn't seem like a year has gone and I have an (gasp!) almost 3 year old!

This week:  Wearing the new kimono sent by cousins in Japan.  I'm not sure I've tied it correctly, must google that.

New Glasses

The 52 Project
Several weeks ago my mom asked me if I had noticed Corrine's right eye looking crossed.  I had to admit that I had seen it several times but it was so fast I wasn't sure I had really seen it.  So I made an appointment for her at the pediatric ophthalmologist.  I was very impressed with how they did their eye exams by using toys and stuffed animals.  They also did a dilated eye exam.  The eyes drops made her cross eye very pronounced, so much so that every time she looked up her eyes were crossed.  It made me want to cry.

The Doctor diagnosed her with Accommodative Esotropia, which is basically a focusing problem.  All kids are farsighted to a point but C's problem is she has to focus extra and it makes her eye cross.   Her glasses do not improve her farsightedness but rather the glasses do the focusing so her eye muscles remain straight.  It is something that kids typically out grow by the time they are 10-12 so we are keeping our fingers crossed she won't need her glasses for her whole life.

When I got the news she would need glasses I immediately thought to get her some super cute frames.  Luckily the lady in the frame shop steered me in the right direction.  She said that they usually sell kids under three some flex frames.  To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.  Her frames are a rubberized flexible frame that bend and flex and take a beating that a three year old will dish out.  (On Monday after we picked them up she wasn't wearing them and I asked her where they were.  Come to find out she had them around her waist!  I told her they weren't a belt and they needed to stay on her face).  The glasses also have a head band to help keep them on her face.  Plus these frames actually fit her small face a lot better.

And all the cool kids are wearing glasses!

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The 52 Project
The 52 Project

A portrait a week for a year.
This week- at a noodle shop in Tokyo she finally got frustrated with her one chop stick so she just slurped her noodle. 

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The 52 Project
The 52 Project
A portrait a week for a year. 
This week- on the airplane from Denver to Tokyo. It was a 12 hour flight and she was a wonderful passenger. She watched two movies twice, slept an hour at the beginning and end of the flight and ate a lot of goldfish crackers. 

**brought to you with the blogger app. Which I haven't really figured out how to use it yet. 

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The 52 Project
The 52 Project
A portrait a week for a year.
This week- Heading out to trick or treat with her good friend Connor.  (While it isn't close to Halloween anymore, Mama was a slacker with the camera so had to rely on other mamas to take pictures).  

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