Sometimes, bad photos can turn into a beautiful thing. I love Picnik! And Adobe Photoshop.

Example:

Flash washed out our faces. Not exactly frame worthy, right?

After:

Playing with the saturation, exposure, etc. (in Picnik, makes it so easy!) now highlights the most beautiful feature of Savannah. Her Eyes. And, I think it just looks edgy and cool.

(But gosh, those eyes are killer. Aren’t they?)

The expiration dates tell you so.

(Don’t worry I won’t go too crazy for the big Two-One.)

She’s just getting too big, folks! Since when can she climb into a Hannah Montana chair and ask, “I uh color!” (Which in Savannah language means, “I want to color!”)? It’s all going by way too fast, she turns 18 months old in a little over a month. How is that even possible? I can’t remember what it was like to have her as a baby (which is probably a good thing since I do know that it was a very sleep deprived year).

Lately she’s rediscovered some of her baby things, like the Graco Entertainer we had in the garage and her old infant bath tub (which sucks for bathing slippery babies so don’t buy that one). She’s been asking to play with them on a daily basis, which is quite funny because while she still fits in them, but she looks HUGE compared to when she used them months ago.

Oh, it goes by fast.

Remember that hand-me-down dress shared from Kaylee to Savannah? Well, I found something even better in that same box from Kaylee: My own dress.

I had this picture taken when I was two years old. I know, I was cute, wasn’t I? This has always been my favorite picture of me as a child, me in my “fishy” dress. Which, until last week, I really thought it was fishies. But apparently they’re whales (it almost was a “Santa isn’t real?!” moment inside). And now 4 girls have worn this dress: myself, my little sister, Kaylee and now Savannah.

And I’ll keep holding onto it for Savannah to pass down one day, too. Of course, it could be completely out of style by then, but oh well. Memories are memories, treasures and treasures. No matter how out dated.

Last Wednesday was the first really warm day we’ve had in a while. Since last year Savannah was a tiny baby and didn’t play much we don’t have any outside toys. So, I brought out some sidewalk chalk and bubbles for us to play with! She’s just getting the hang of how to color (ya know, scribbling!) and it’s super cute to watch her discover this whole new world out side. I’m so glad spring is here!

This was my lovely sun, inspired by the real sun shine beaming down on us. You can also see Savannah’s scribbles to the left:

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