Playing at Kidstock

Today we had play date with our friends Robin and her son Caleb and Heather and her daughter Emma at Kidstock @ First Baptist of Woodstock. They have an awesome playground (Thanks Robin!) that Katie would have enjoyed had she been in a better mood. We'll have to play there again soon! Here's some pictures from the day.

Our trip to the Zoo

We took a trip to the zoo on Wednesday and I had a chance to take a lot of cool pictures of the animals there. I'm tired today so that's all I have to say about it. LOL

My Second Photo Shoot

I took more pictures this past week. A very sweet mommy let me take pictures of her smiley little 8 month old boy. He made such a cute model. I'll post pictures at the end. I have been really busy this week. It doesn't seem like I did anything in particular besides clean the house, do laundry and work on photographs. And made a very adorable thank you card. I'm not complaining, but for being as busy as I have been, it seems I would have gotten more accomplished. LOL

Katie's pink monkey

Today I figured Katie's pink monkey would make an interesting subject for a portrait. It just ended up giving me the giggles. It's funny how something so silly can just hit you like that. I was playing baby with the monkey too in front of Katie and she was MOST upset. I don't know what she's going to do when #2 hopefully comes along. She's already getting into the that's MY MOMMY stage. Anyway, here's my pics from today.

Kids are too much.

So it was a rainy day today and I was at my sister's house. Her son and the two girls from next door were playing with Katie. The younger girl kept asking me if I was going to take pictures of her. (I take my camera everywhere you know.) So she proceeded to be silly and model for the next half an hour or so. Then my nephew and the little girls sister wanted to pose too. It was fun. They were too silly. Here's some of those pics. Oh and the cat joined in too. LOL

About the rise of infertlity

(This is an old post, that for some reason never got posted. So I am posting it now. :) )
So it amazes me how many people are unable to conceive without help. I come across people literally EVERYDAY. I was looking online on why it seems the infertility rate has gone up so much. And the theory is because people are waiting until later in life to have kids. And as you get older your body and reproductive system changes making it harder to conceive. Here's an article I found that was interesting.

The Infertility Epidemic

We are in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of infertility. Ironically, even in countries with severe overpopulation, one of the most common reasons for a visit to the doctor is the inability to have children. Twenty-five percent of modern couples in their mid-thirties everywhere in the world are infertile. From our teen years (when the last thing we really want is a child) to our midthirties (when we finally feel emotionally and financially secure enough to start a family), there is a twenty-five-fold decline in our ability to get pregnant. Let me explain.

Ironically, the incidence of infertility in teenagers is rare. For women in their early twenties, still only 1 to 2 percent are infertile. By their late twenties, however, 16 percent of women are infertile, and in their mid to late thirties, 25 percent are infertile. By age forty, more than half of women are infertile, and pregnancy beyond age forty-three is very uncommon. If you are in your thirties, have been working hard to establish yourself, and are now just casually thumbing through this booklet at your doctor’s office because you’re thinking maybe in a few years you might like to start a family, you should realize that there is a 25 percent chance you will not be able to do so without medical intervention. What accounts for this dramatic increase in infertility over the last forty years is just the woman’s biological clock, which correlates with her declining store of eggs. Even by the time you are just in your midtwenties, there is a 10 percent chance (of infertility).
The decreasing follicle pool and age related decline in female fertility you will have become infertile, even though five years earlier you would have had no problem at all getting pregnant. The biology of fertility in humans has not changed in the last forty thousand years. What has changed in the last few centuries is our life span and the age at which we first try to conceive.

Men and women are now able to obtain fuller educations, develop themselves in their careers, and contribute dramatically to the intellectual and economic prosperity of the modern world. This would not occur so readily if we were saddled with children as teenagers or in our early twenties. But this change in society is also the reason for the epidemic rise in infertility.

-- From Treating Infertility
by Sherman J. Silber

I don't post this to make every one get up and say, I really should have kids young. It was just an interesting thought. I am sure that in addition to being older, that the increase in refined sugar and super processed foods and the rate of obesity have a large part in infertility too. But that's just my thought on it.

My First "Shoot"

Thanks to my friend Sara ;), who got me to start this blog, I had my first photography "shoot" yesterday. Her daughter Avery is such a doll and she let me take some beautiful informal portraits. Hopefully, my other shoots in the future will turn out so well. I thought for my first post, I would show off those pics.