Gliding Through Motherhood: photo

Kiernan is turning into quite the little monkey. Although he isn't crawling or scooting yet, he is definitely interested in not staying in the same place all the time!!
In the mornings we often put k into bed with us, he's probably 2 feet down from the headboard so. Well apparently our headboard is fascinating (he has good taste, it's what sold me on the set as well!) and he reaches, and twists and "snakes" his way until he reach up and touch it!
He also won't sit still when being changed, dressed, on your lap, etc. He twists, turns, and usually ends up on his belly whining because he's got himself stuck in a position he isn't exactly thrilled about. I don't think it'll be long now until he figures out how to propel himself quite handily. I'm just hoping it doesn't happen until after we're home from BC.
This was him yesterday at the grocery store (look, it's like I'm sneaking in extra entries to the treasure hunt ;)

I'm a photo nut! In order to inspire myself to get out and get a lot great photos, and not just photo after photo of Kiernan on the floor or in the exersaucer, I decided to made a list of photos to take. Then I thought it'd be fun to get other people to play along!

At the beginning of each month I am going to pick a subject for each week and announce it right away. That way you have all month to try and get the fourth one and you can work ahead a bit. I will also include a fifth subject that will be the "alternate" for the month. If you absolutely can't get one of the other options, you can use the alternate. The alternate will come up again as one of the weekly subjects later on.

I will still post the specific subject on the Sunday night (or Monday morning) with the subject for that week and you should add a comment to that post once you have your photo, pointing people to go and look at it. I've created a group on Flickr you can add your photos to as well.

Every submission to a category gets you one entry into a draw to win 2 bibs. I would prefer if you posted your photos weekly, but you have until the end of the month to upload your photos to flickr to be entered into the draw.

July photo list:

July 2: Photo with a blue sky as backdrop (pref. with white fluffy clouds)
July 9: in a crowd
July 16: discovering something
July 23: self portrait of mom and baby taken with the camera on the ground
July 30: in a wheelbarrow
Alternate: in a photobooth

June photo list:
Week of June 4 - in the water
Week of June 11 - black and white photo
Week of June 18 - on the bus
Week of June 25 - in one of those rides for kids at the mall
Alternate - in something (a box, a frying pan, the crib, whatever)

May photo list:
week of May 7 - Market
week of May 14 - Picture of the whole family
week of May 21 - Baby/child in the mirror
week of May 28 - In the tulips
Alternate: messy

Here is the master list if you want to work ahead:

picture of whole family
Parliament buildings
ByWard Market
In front of graffiti
at the park
at the grocery store
at the library
at a petting zoo/with animals
your baby looking at himself in the mirror
black and white photo
first tooth
on the grass
in the water
on a bus
in the country
in the tunnel thing from mackenzie king estate
in a canoe
in something (a box, a frying pan, the crib, whatever)
on a train
amongst the tulips
in a photobooth
in one of those rides for kids at the mall
in a crowd
discovering something
Photo with a blue sky as backdrop (pref. with white fluffy clouds)
self portrait of mom and baby taken with the camera on the ground
self portrait of whole family with outstretched arm
messy
in a wheelbarrow
in the car
baby watching tv
dressed in adult clothing

I realize some of these are specific to our region, so, if anyone from outside the Ottawa/Gatineau region decides to play along, I'll modify them somehow so they won't be so restrictive. Now, please play along so I don't seem like the kid with no friends ;)

I'll also start the treasure hunt off with one you probably don't have, but should be easy to get :) You have until next Sunday until I go to the next theme.
The grocery store! Here's Kiernan trying to sneak the Doritos :)

*additional info*
Ok, flickr is a bit complicated and I myself and still trying to figure out how to use it.
You need to get an account, apparently by getting a yahoo account. Then you have to join the group http://www.flickr.com/groups/322417@N25/

Then you need to upload photos into your account and once it's uploaded look at the photo. Right above the photo there are a bunch of icons. one says "send to group". Click on that and add it to the treasure hunt group.

The rest of the stuff that still isn't working, I'll try to figure it out soon, I promise :)