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Photo Shoot

We've been spending some quiet days around the house this week with family. Yesterday we took some time while Julia was awake to play dress up and take some pictures. She wasn't very smily this afternoon, but we got a few nice pictures of her.After a long afternoon of posing for the camera, our little girl needed some rest.

Family Visit Time

Pedro, Cassia, and the kids got here on Friday to visit for a few weeks. Their flight came in at 5:30 in the morning, so we took them to our favorite place to go when we arrive home from a long flight - IHOP. This also was Julia's first trip to a restaurant. Too bad she could not eat the blueberry pancakes. They're pretty good.After that we spent some time hanging out with Julia . . .

Julia's First Bath

On Thursday Julia had lots of fun, including her first bath at home, and a visit from more friends.

Here Raquel is washing her hair.

A few shots from after her wash . . .Look at my clean feet everybody. (Doesn't she have big feet? They almost didn't fit in the foot ink stamp area of her baby book.) Later that day she was resting on Mom and Dad's bed.One of her new friends came to watch over her.

First Day Out-takes

Of course, we quickly learned the lesson that to get good pictures with children you have to shoot a lot of pictures (how did our parent's do it with 35mm film?) Here are some of the out takes of today's efforts.

She's going for the knockout blow on this guy since she couldn't eat him.Tong out is one of her favorite poses.

I can't tell if she gave herself a back hand smack here, or she's getting ready to smack me.The series below was taken as we tried to get a shot that we could use on a birth announcement. We ended up getting the shot, after about 50 takes.

The winning shot actually came right before this one.

Julia's First Full Day at Home

Neil is able to take some time off for Julia's birth, so of course we're busy playing with our new little girl, having lots of fun with her around the house. Here are some fun shots of our day today.

We got her started out right, in yellow ducky pajamas. Every little girl's favorite, I'm sure. Here she's checking Neil out from inside her bassinet.

Next we took her over to the nursery room (she's sleeping in our room until after Raquel's family go home in September) and had her test out her crib and the accompanying stuffed animal thingee (they tell me this is called a "lovie").

After that we had her test out the day bed, because we thought it would make the best picture backdrop. We learned, unfortunately that sitting upright is not quite in her repertory yet. After just a couple of seconds of trying she appeared to be pretty uncomfortable. So we moved on to letting her pose lying down. Here are a few fun ones.Next Raquel wanted to get a shot of her in some underpants she brought back from her trip to Brazil earlier this year. They say "I belong to Mama".While she wasn't too happy with those panties, by the end of the photo shoot, our girl was pretty happy.