Merrik has been obsessed with Curious George lately and when he saw these monkey pjs he just had to have them-for himself and for Maliea. I think it is very sweet that he thinks of her too. Of course hers are pink and his aren’t. Oh and by the way, he is also obsessed with Maliea.
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It has been raining here all week which is an extremely rare occurrence. If we do get rain it’s usually for only a day or two. The week has been filled with lots of indoor activities that is starting to grow old. It just makes us all appreciate so much more than we already do the lifestyle that we have here in Southern California. I love the rain and wish we had a little bit all year round but the deluge we have had lately has kept me from driving far. The roads in our area are not great in the rain and neither are the drivers so I hesitate to spontaneously hop in the car for a trip to the mall or other indoor entertainment.
So our week consisted of a trip to the local paint your own ceramics place, Fired Up, Kids Day Out, Serra Preschool and a friend’s house in Laguna Niguel whom I haven’t seen in over a year. Merrik loved painting at the ceramics place and Maliea loved eating cupcakes with newly discovered friends Lana and Lydia.
Kristianne Koch specializes in on-location portrait photography for the contemporary family and child for all of Southern California. 949-702-7707 kristianne.koch@cox.net
I have been literally overwhelmed lately with the separate demands of Merrik and Maliea. I think I have just been trying to cruise on through this period of our discontent but finally realized that there is just too much for my body and brain to process. The week long experience of feeling seriously ill and drained was a big tip off for me.
I have also been avoiding publishing just another post of “outings with Merrik and Maliea” because I am bored with the concept. We have still be running here and running there and I have still been taking pictures but the actual blogging it all hasn’t excited me much. It’s the beginning of a new year and I was expecting to jump start it with lots of new projects and photo sessions but that just hasn’t happened. That and the reality of spending lots of our savings on fixing up the house, the loss of a good friend and needing to dig out of too much stuff has slowed my energy to a crawl.
However, my little girl is definitely keeping me cheery and reveling in joy of having a toddler around (even though I seriously miss the baby stage already). Maliea is talking up a storm and repeats everything you say including “Are you alright?” when one of us coughs. She calls herself “Manna” and she is literally our little Angel from Heaven.
Beautiful little “Manna” on the beach at Silver Strand State Beach in Coronado. She almost got taken out by a kite-surfer she was so curious and unintimidated by the huge thing flying over her head.
I love this one of her kissing my big sister Karen-her aunt and Godmother. She is the sweetest little girl I have ever known.
Here she is at the WSA Surf contest at the San Clemente Pier clearly saying something very important to me. She is a talker.
And I cannot resist her gorgeous eyelashes and hair. Here they are the heroes of her story.
Kristianne Koch specializes in on-location portrait photography for the contemporary family and child for all of Southern California. 949-702-7707 kristianne.koch@cox.net
Redundancy is prominent in our lives right now: watching and rewatching Curious George, Dinosaur Train, Polar Express and other movies; reading and rereading Meet Kai Lan and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Our other redundancy is the beach: bikes, swings ocean and sand. With it in our backyard it’s feels weird to not go.
Later the same day we met up with friends that we haven’t seen since October and the kids had a blast playing on the berms of sand built up by the lifeguard dozer and on the closed up lifeguard towers.
I love these of Noah running to the water and waiting for the waves to settle before heading out for a quick surf. He was hesitant to go out because the fog was so thick most of the time we were there but it finally lifted right before sundown.
Kristianne Koch specializes in on-location portrait photography for the contemporary family and child for all of Southern California. 949-702-7707 kristianne.koch@cox.net
Kristianne Koch specializes in on-location portrait photography for the contemporary family and child for all of Southern California. 949-702-7707 kristianne.koch@cox.net
The kids are in awe of the Christmas tree. There is something amazing about a lavishly decorated and well lit tree that makes the house smell like you are in the woods. Merrik helped put ornaments on today and ended up loving them all in the same place. There is a little cluster of sailboats all at his level that just look like they are supposed to be there.
Maliea would just stand and wiggle and watch the tree and train for moments at a time. She always put back any ornaments she took off to look at and revered the tree as much as Merrik.
I wanted to capture both of them sitting in front of the tree just like an image I captured of the two of them last year. It’s an image that has landed itself in a magnetic frame on our fridge somehow. I don’t usually get around to putting photos in those things so they are usually empty for years. But this one made it in and I have fallen in love with it. Mostly I think because it is so hard to get them in a photo together where they both look half awake and happy.
Kristianne Koch specializes in on-location portrait photography for the contemporary family and child for all of Southern California. 949-702-7707 kristianne.koch@cox.net
