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100mph & Picking Up Speed {St Louis Child Photography}
Posted on February 3, 2010
I have lived in the St Louis area for a total of 13 years, 1 month and 2 days. Not that I have kept count or anything, lol. I don’t know if the winters are truly getting longer here in the Midwest or if it seems that way since I have kiddies that need to get out every once in a while. What ever the case may be I am waving the white flag and asking for Spring to surprise us all with her presence. I have 300 things to do and most days my head is going 100mph with ideas. All 300 things involve warmer weather. I am about to explode!!!
Today is one of those days. I have 50 things I want to accomplish today. Ideas are soaring out of control and I am in here, where it’s warm. Wishing the sun outside wasn’t teasing me with it’s warmth. I know it’s cold out there, when I got the mail this morning it took me all of 2 seconds to realize I wasn’t opening that door again until I had to.
When my head is going 100 mph and gaining speed this is how my morning goes….
6:30 am finally dragged myself out of bed after 30 minutes of hitting snooze
I got 2 of the 3 kids dressed today. Luckily we have no where to be. Andy isn’t feeling the greatest so he gets to be in PJ’s for the day.
Make Jax a lunch, get a snack for him, check his backpack, fix his hair. Make sure everyone’s teeth are sparkly clean and then care for myself.
Check my email and make a list of people to email and call.
Sent Jax out for the bus.
Wait for the bus.
Bus is on it’s way with my child and Log and And are playing pet doctors.
Spend 20 minutes networking and uploading pictures to be edited today.
Address orders and put them in the mailbox.
Get a cup of green tea and straighten up the kitchen.
Back to emails.
Edit for 20 minutes
While editing I was thinking of Jax’s room.
Get the camera and head up stairs and take the before pictures.
I can’t have the camera and NOT take pictures of my sometimes willing subjects.
Set up train time
Take more pictures
Oh while I am at it take a few pics of fun finds from last week.
Fold towels and toss another load in the dryer and washer.
Sit back down look for inspiration for Jax’s room.
Break up a fight over who is the engineer
Go back up to Jax’s room and take a picture of my 1st camera
Come down and set up snack time
Eat a snack and then we play train, I was the fireman
Fix the train and then they decide to leave me to play by myself. Hmpf
Log is packing bags to take on a trip and Andy is playing with a school bus, I guess they needed some alone time
And here I am sifting through the pics I took this morning, making a grocery list, preparing next weeks menu, editing pictures, and cleaning my desk all at once. And thinking of all the great things I want to do to Jax’s special space.
And now it is 10:36 ahhhhh
Alright so first here are the before pictures. He moved into the nursery, and its been this shade of blue for almost 9 years. He picked out a tan color called Brown Tee Pee. Lol He still likes this blue so I decided I will paint the large wall by his bed the tan and leave the rest this blue. Or I might do two walls brown and leave two blue. I’m a little torn.
You can see this is painted paneling. 
There is a plaster nightmare behind it that none of us wishes to tackle any time soon!
Oh the joys of old houses. Uneven everything! lol
I will be moving the toy bins out and into the other bedroom soon. And I am thinking of getting rid of the dresser and put drawers under his bed for his clothes. The corner closet can hold a few things for him, but now much as it’s a very small closet.
I need to find curtain rods for his new curtains, I am also thinking of adding fun sheers as well. If I can find what I have in mind. Which I doubt as it always works that way. You know what I mean? You have a great idea in your head and could have sworn you’ve seen it before… but then you go looking for it and it’s no where to be found. Only in your head! So I’m throwing out there, and maybe one of you have seen them as well. Sheers with a map on them… anyone??? Yeah I didn’t think so lol
The bed set stays as he got them for his birthday. Big boy bedding! And I’ll find some more pillows for him as well.
Now his desk I have decided to paint and decoupage! I believe we have old maps around here somewhere and that will be the top. Along with some old fake money, and other fun stuff I find.
Ok this was my grandfathers when he was in the Navy he got this. It’s in rough shape and could use a new frame. Have to find one that will fit this glass perfect as the document I am sure it stuck to it and I don’t want to ruin this. Is one of very few things I have from my grandparents and means a great deal to me. I remember it hung in my grandparents basement and as a kid I spent a lot of time down there. It was the first thing you saw coming down the green shag carpeted stairs. I remember as a kid being fascinated with it. It sparks a lot of memories.
This little guy has been with Jax since the beginning. Why do our babies have to grow up soooo fast? sniff sniff
Jax is into history, old military, and he’s very inquisitive. I want his room to showcase all of that. And I want his room to be really special. Being the oldest he tends to get the shaft somedays, and I would love for him to be able to go to his room and see what we have done for him and know he is loved and that he is very special!
And here is the train and the folks on the train! I love it when they play so well together. Today has been fantastic, and I probably shouldn’t have just admitted that, as I may have jinxed myself. Lol
He made tickets to ride. Tickets please!
ALL ABOARD!!
Yep, he’s all mine!! Such a character!
Ok here are some recent fun finds.
This is of course an old sifter. It’ll be great for decorating… I have a great idea for this. I would use it, but the hubby found it had been soldered and is worried that it my be lead based, or something like that. So it will make something pretty very soon.
And these two love birds are an inspiration piece for my kitchen. I still am trying to figure out we are doing
In there. That’ll be a summer project I think.
Ok the final fun find was from our trip to Springfield last year. We stopped at a antique mall and this screamed for me to get it! It’s going to be part of the Rockin’ Living room. The colors in there I want are red, yellow black and white. It’s going to be fantastic! I would love a big shag rug in there, but not sure how well that will look with 3 boys. So that probably won’ t happen.
Ok so there you have it. My logest post ever! I had more but I will save it for another day. One more find and then a special post on where my camera craze began! Time for lunch and 50 more things before the man gets home! Have a great Wednesday!!! And thank you for stopping by!!!
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all yr boys are adorable but I always get a little more of a smile when I see Logan. I can still see Lilleigh dragging him around by the hand at the park, LOL. what a fun morning u had.
Great photos! I can’t wait to see the “afters” of the room!
Great Post. Really it will help lot of people. Thanks for the post.
Awesome images!