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Sassy

After Sunday’s hair tragedy I think we are all adjusting just fine at the Calderon household. Little Miss decided she wanted me to take her picture tonight. I think someone must have taken my child and put someone else in her place because this simply cannot be the little girl who tells me to “put that camera down momma”. Hey I’m not about to pass up this request (even though it makes me wonder if she wants something in return – toys? candy? hmmm). She seems to be taking on a sassy new attitude to go along with her hip new hair style. Did I ever mention that this 3 1/2 year old is the boss of me, did I mention it’s all my fault? Did I mention that I wouldn’t have it any other way? So here is a little sass for ya. I hope everyone is having a great week so far.

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Meggan - April 2, 2008 - 10:44 pm

I LOVE that haircut! I think it fits her sassy personality to a T! :)

Corey - April 3, 2008 - 3:21 am

She is just too cute, Angela. I am loving the new hair soooo much! It really does fit her personality!

Jayme Tighe - April 3, 2008 - 6:17 am

Too cute! Especially love the 5th picture in the series. Beautiful eyes!

PamN - April 3, 2008 - 10:08 am

Oh my gosh, she just looks completely adorable! That haircut is the cutest ever, and fits her to a tee!

Michelle - April 3, 2008 - 5:38 pm

Angela I love her new haircut! She is a doll and it frames her face beautifully!

Lisa G - April 3, 2008 - 5:51 pm

I love the haircut!! It must be 3 1/2. My son (same age) tried to cut his hair the same day. He cut his eyebrow and a little underneath. Did the same about 8 mnths ago. He looked like Loyd Christmas on Dumb and Dumber!!!

allie - April 3, 2008 - 6:54 pm

She looks so so so beautiful, super sassy- I love it!! :)

gretchen - April 3, 2008 - 7:10 pm

her cuteness OVERWHELMS me! That haircut looks perfect for her personality :)

Teri Mason - April 3, 2008 - 7:54 pm

Awww, her haircut is adorable! Lemons into lemonade!! And wanting a photoshoot, to boot! It is a good day :)

Rochelle Westgarde - April 3, 2008 - 8:20 pm

What a cutie pie! Her haircut is adorable:)

TonyaMarie - April 3, 2008 - 9:23 pm

That cut truly is adorable! Frames her face perfectly.
PS we put away the arts and crafts box this week…my boy decided it would be a good idea to GLUE his painting on the wall!

Heather Gibb - April 3, 2008 - 9:40 pm

Wow, she is a doll and looks like she is full of personality!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder where that came from :) ?! The haircut is darling!

Niki - April 3, 2008 - 9:52 pm

Angela~

I have been thinking about you all week and also made a point to show my kids the side by side of the hair that was cut and THE HAIRCUT. They too are still talking about it. All I can say at this point is from how pretty she looks with her new BOB…it must have been meant to be. I adore it!!! She is so stinkin’ cute.

Terrilyn - April 3, 2008 - 10:44 pm

Oh my gosh, she looks so adorable with that haircut!! They really did a wonderful job. Of course it would be pretty much impossible for her to look less than fabulous anyway! LOL

jen wilson - April 3, 2008 - 11:31 pm

she looks so incredibly cute!!! i love that her new haircut is giving ger extra sass!

Carrie - April 4, 2008 - 5:45 am

I absolutely LOVE her haircut…. Suri Cruise has NOTHING on her!

Joyce - April 4, 2008 - 9:16 am

Oh, now that is the cutest! It suits her so well.

Jasmine Marie - April 4, 2008 - 10:06 am

The haircut totally fits her personality. :)

Super cute AND sassy.

Lisa Kelly - April 4, 2008 - 2:28 pm

The haircut is just gorgeous. She has so much personality LOL

Holly - April 4, 2008 - 11:33 pm

Adorable! That’s all I can say. Simply Adorable!

Kristina - April 5, 2008 - 6:32 am

She is an absolute DOLL! Love these images Angela!!

Jennifer - April 6, 2008 - 11:14 am

oh I love seeing her many faces, her hair is absolutely beautiful!

Jen Lane - April 8, 2008 - 8:20 pm

ok first of all, good gracious she is stunning. and growing up so fast! LOVE the new haircut!!!!! I have to keep reading to find out what happened on Sunday, lol. Love love love that storyboard design too. You my dear, a rock star. And so is miss thang. lol.

Laura Siebert - April 8, 2008 - 8:58 pm

I LOVE the new do. It matches her personality (or at least what you have described of it) perfectly. Sassy is right (:

The Cut

Last night I asked my husband, where is Morgan?  She’s in her room playing with her dollhouse.  Nope, she was doing something else.  She had climbed up to the cabinet with her school scissors and got them down, went and hid behind the treadmill and decided she was Paul Mitchell or Jose Eber and went to town on her hair.  The photo below does not begin to show how bad it is, under the parts that are still long she cut it short underneath.  I seriously cried when I saw what she had done.  Her hair had finally grown out of the two year old mullet phase and was now long and beautiful.  Until last night.  She cut it sooo short in the back that we only had a few choices of what to do with the rest of her hair.  So we opted for the short in the back and a little longer in the front.  I wanted to keep it a little longer than we ended up with but her hair is so fine and thin underneath in the spots she cut that we had to change our plans.

Am I weird that I cried?  I totally did like a big baby, I know it’s not the end of the world, but it sure was frustrating.

Here’s the photo of the back of her hair, just know it was way worse if you lifted up the long pieces to see how short she cut the underside.

 

I took my trustly little point and shoot camera with us to grab a shot of the cut.

And the end result

And a little something just for fun…I call this Move Over Katie & Suri. ;-)

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Nikki - March 31, 2008 - 8:13 pm

She looks adorable with her new cut! The first picture is a bit heart breaking though.

Beth - March 31, 2008 - 9:33 pm

Awww, she looks cute! I cried when my daughter cut her hair off, too, so don’t feel bad. You’re lucky your daughter cut it in the back, and it was fixable. That’s a really cute, trendy cut on her.

My daughter lifted up pieces of her bangs and snipped them almost to her scalp! The front part of her hair, framing her face, had just gotten long enough to match the back and reach back into a long ponytail (she’s 3.5). It took 6 weeks for her bangs to grow out and approach looking normal again. The sides have a looong way to go, so we use a lot of clippies, and have some seriously crazy looking braids.

Pammy - March 31, 2008 - 9:36 pm

She is the most adorable thing. I love her new do. Sorry she had to get a new do–but it’s darn cute and she’s a spitfire. Tell her Pay-um says hi.

Lisa - April 1, 2008 - 4:20 am

She is so cute! And I LOVE the new cut – so spunky and adorable!

Shari - April 1, 2008 - 6:11 am

I think she looks absolutely ADORABLE with her new cut!! I LOVE the place where she gets her haircut too. I wish we had something like that around here! How FUN!

Season Moore - April 1, 2008 - 7:04 am

LOVE the new cut though, Livvy’s is like that minus the bangs! I remember doing that as a kid…

Jayme Tighe - April 1, 2008 - 7:06 am

I think the new do is GREAT! She looks spunky! :)

Meggan - April 1, 2008 - 9:43 am

I told you it would look adorable! :) I LOVE it! :)

Dawn - April 1, 2008 - 10:06 am

Totally adorable. She IS Katie Holmes/Cruise (whatever!).

Corey - April 1, 2008 - 10:28 am

Aaawww! {{{hugs}}} It’s not that bad, could have been worse, but I would have cried, too! ;) I love her new do, though! It looks absolutely adorable on her!

Theresa - April 1, 2008 - 3:18 pm

Awww….Suri’s all grown up! :-D

Lisa Z - April 1, 2008 - 3:55 pm

OMG! I can’t believe she cut off that much. I think she knew exactly what she was doing because the end result is too cute for words.

marla - April 1, 2008 - 8:45 pm

The cut is adorable!! And by the way, I am still craving girl scout cookies thanks to you.

Reb - April 5, 2008 - 5:37 am

Oh look! The tragic story has a happy ending … she looks adorable with her new cut. Yay!

Jen Lane - April 8, 2008 - 8:24 pm

omgoodness Morgan!!! What a total stinker. Don’t you love it when they hide to commit their crimes, lol?!! Oy. On a positive note though, that new cut is SO her! SASSY! I love it. And I’m not just saying that b/c I have the same haircut, lol! She is such a doll. And Suri just doesn’t have anything on her, lol.

Dennis - April 13, 2008 - 4:22 pm

I think it turned out great! Isn’t cutting your own hair a stepping stone is growing up? BTW…that hair salon is super cool!

Evening Princess

On the way home from preschool this evening my daughter told me that she wanted to be a princess when we got home. As we walked through the door she ran to her room and picked out a dress, it was her Easter dress from last year and it still fits! Of course every princess needs a crown and necklaces too. I was able to snap a few photos before she told me to put my camera away.  She had her class photos taken recently and she told me that they told her to always say cheese for pictures.  Oh boy, that’s the opposite of what I tell children, so now she always says cheese anytime I have the camera out.  Gotta work on getting that out of her mind!

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Deanna - March 18, 2008 - 10:55 pm

Oh my gosh, she just becomes more and more beautiful if that’s possible. I have to sneak pics of Gabby now too for the same reason, cheeeeeeeese!

Jennie - March 19, 2008 - 9:52 am

Ah, yes…the ‘cheese’. I hear them ask the kids that when I take them to their photos at school. Sometimes they get creative and tell them to say “cheese, please!” Yuck. I wonder if they know the damage they are doing to millions of photos for the next 6 years or so!

TonyaMarie - March 19, 2008 - 9:35 pm

What a pretty princess. I especially love the color in the first.
The new blog background is fun too!

Jasmine Marie - March 28, 2008 - 1:49 am

A beautiful princess indeed!

Nicole - April 29, 2008 - 8:33 pm

I love your photography, such great ideas! I have a three year old of my own and I’m always trying to get him to say something, I’m just wondering what you DO recommend they say? Thanks for sharing!

When I’m Thirty…

Oh how I wish this was a post about when I turn thirty, but it’s not, as this year I’m going to be …..gasp…….. in my mid-thirties. How did that happen? Thirty-five? Oh well I still have until November to enjoy being considered early thirties.

This blog entry is about my son. Typically on our morning commute to school he asks his million and one why questions, those of you with kids know what I mean. Mommy why doesn’t Disneyland stay open all night, Mommy why do we lose sleep for daylight savings. One question after another and I don’t know about you but I’m not always at the top of my game in the morning to give great answers. I’ll confess to sometimes taking the easy way out and saying, I’m not sure honey or even worse, I’ll tell him, ask your Dad when he picks you up, he knows all about it.

So for the past week our morning question and answer time has been a little different. For some bizarre reason my son is obsessed with turning thirty. He turns seven in September so I’m guessing he likes to get a early jump on planning out the next couple of decades until he turns thirty.

It usually goes something like this… Mom… When I’m thirty I’m going to buy Disneyland. Mom, when I’m thirty I’m going to stay up all night. You get the idea. He also tells me what his career is going to be when he’s thirty and he told me he’s going to be a Dad when he’s thirty.

This morning was his sweetest when I’m thirty proclamation so far…

Spencer: Mommy…
Me: Yes honey…
Spencer: Mommy when I’m thirty I’m going to have a limousine
Me: Wow that would be really cool, then you wouldn’t have to worry about driving
Spencer: Well I would use it to come pick you up and take you shopping with all my money, and if you didn’t feel good I would have it take you to the Dr. If you ever needed anything I could give it to you. I’ll never let anyone hurt you…….. Mommy I love you.
Me: I love you too
Spencer: Mommy….
Me: Yes
Spencer: You’re the best Mommy I ever had.

Note to self, remember to bring Kleenex with me if he is going to continue talking like this. Luckily I had on my sunglasses because he made me cry. Have I mentioned how much I love my kids?

Of course I can’t post without having a photo to go along with it, so here’s my little dude, almost seven, but going on thirty.

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Corey - February 11, 2008 - 4:05 pm

This totally made me tear up!!! How sweet is he?!

lisa - February 11, 2008 - 4:37 pm

That made me cry too! He is the sweetest. And he’s the handsomest little guy to boot- those curls are tdf and his eyes are always shining. You are one lucky mama! :)

Connie - February 11, 2008 - 5:43 pm

That is just the sweetest conversation ever! What a doll- he made me cry too!!

Pammy - February 11, 2008 - 9:41 pm

He is adorable Angela! Love it and what a sweet kid.

Julia - February 11, 2008 - 10:02 pm

Awwwww!!! What a SWEETheart!

Tonya - February 11, 2008 - 10:53 pm

I KNEW he was sweet…and how could he not be with an awesome mom like you. Nice to hear the story that goes along with this handsome portrait.

Jennifer - February 12, 2008 - 6:34 am

haha love it! I think when everyone’s a child we won’t to be grownups, then when we are we wish we could be kids again! You have a handsome young man here, I see you in his eyes I mean he has your eyes!:)

allie - February 12, 2008 - 10:19 am

Angela- this is SO sweet!!! I can totally envision my now 4 year old saying something like this! He is so adorable… looks a lot like his momma :)

Joyce - February 12, 2008 - 12:33 pm

Oh man, now you are making me cry!! So sweet. And what a gorgeous photo too!

marie - February 12, 2008 - 5:12 pm

aww…he is sweet

Theresa - February 13, 2008 - 10:49 am

Awww what a sweetheart! Thanks for making me cry this morning….:)

Kristie Serra - February 13, 2008 - 1:10 pm

I think you should have started the post with a Kleenex warning! That was sooooooo sweet (*sniff… *sniff…)!! Thanks for sharing!!

MsB - February 18, 2008 - 3:23 pm

Your little guy totally reminds me of Adam Sandler’s movie son in “Click.” As a matter-of-fact, I’m watching that movie again for the 100th time. :D

Love at first click… : Nikon D3

Excuse me for the nerdy camera geek post which is to follow….. you’ve been warned!

I was lucky enough to be in the first group at my local camera shop to get one of the AMAZING new Nikon D3′s that came out a couple of weeks ago. Oh. My. Goodness. I don’t live that far from the Nikon headquarters so I’ve been considering driving over there and bowing down and telling them I’m not worthy. All I can say is WOW. It is one fantastic camera, but at the same time I have to say, it’s about time they gave us a full frame camera!

The first three shots below are SOTC/SOOC with only resizing and sharpen for web. I’m beginning to think I should send a love letter to Nikon. For the photographers who read my blog and are on the fence and thinking of taking the plunge, it truly is all that and then some.

Oh and the willing subject as my regular blog readers will know is my little sweetheart 6 year old.

I used the 85 1.8 on these.

and of course my little one thinks she’s Tyra Banks and needs to strike a pose every time she sees the camera…

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Jasmin - December 24, 2007 - 3:15 pm

CUTE!!!
Been thinking about taking the D3 plunge myself. Sounds like Nikon finally hit the jackpot with this camera. Thanks for the input!

Laura Ping - December 24, 2007 - 4:15 pm

Merry Christmas!

Gorgeous shots – of course. If I knew how to use my camera, and thought I had any potential as a photographer – I would offer you $$$ for your old camera ;) My New Year’s resolution is to become friends with my camera and know what ISO and aperture mean. Duh!

I hope Santa is good to you – although who could want with a D3 in hand! I would like just a little of that thick curly hair on your son’s head – which would mean Santa will be brining me product and a perm. lol.

Jayme Tighe - December 27, 2007 - 6:55 am

Congrats on your new camera!!! You must be in heaven!

ashley mcnamara - December 27, 2007 - 3:56 pm

Soooo cute!!! Love all of them. :)

Dhana - December 30, 2007 - 11:45 pm

Wow…those are gorgeous shots and the kiddos are super cute as well. I’ve seen some amazing things with this camera in re. to iso 2000 & up. You’re going to have so much fun! Congrats!

Helen - January 3, 2008 - 3:25 am

Wow, the clarity in the photo’s is amazing… cute subjects too! Congrat’s on your new purchase… Love your work!

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