Goofing off in photoshop - what do you think?

You were in Austin and didn't let me know? Grrrrrrr....

I think you should use Shewolf's old signature for the quote.

Fabulous photos.

How's Mo?

Little Mo is beautiful.
He is about 4 feet high, but has more personality then most adults I meet.
After being taken aside by the " strange loud woman" in his presence, he warmed up a bit. I eased him on by teaching him about the local bug population.
What started with a curious gaze, quickly turned into an absorbant conversation about the Stink Bug. Never seeing one, he was eager to hear it fly. So i told him how to approach them to make them take off flying and warned him on scaring it due to its " pee smell". I believe he squelched a giggle on that comment..
On he went exploring the park while I chased ever so galantly after bean and chatted with Boom. I think it took Boom and I about 1/2 a second to get comfortable and have a non stop conversation about anything we could possibly squeeze into the 2 hour window we both had.
Learning all too late that I had another ticket to the Dalai Lama, I spammed her email account to no end.. but she was already gone.

I grabbed a few things at the store for a makeshift " picnic" at the park . When Bean was finally making signs for food, I pulled out the bags and Little Mo sat down and just started gabbing about his food. So, I procedeed to tell him that here in texas you will see alot of duck poop and he better watch for strange colors in his lunch because there is so much of it that it gets every where.
This began a long detailed conversation about duck poop, farts and burps that had him giggling so hard I dont think he ate much.

Im not sure who I enjoyed more.. Boom or mo?
They need to come back...
and I need to bring my own camera next time...
Little Mo is the most beautiful little boy I have ever seen. He has these glass blue eyes that just lock you into his stare and forces you to see things through his eyes. That little brown and grey stink bug was never so beautiful until i described it to him.

Come back you two... SOON. :-)

Glad to see this thread running again.

Oh my gosh, Bean just gets more adorable every day and Mo is a darling as well. I love all that you can do to make photos more interesting.

Please, everyone, post more!

Gorgeous pictures of Bean - what a character and she's beautiful

Thanks all!

DrewDad - I didn't know that "Silicone Hills" meant Austin! Next time....

It is hard to get to meet people when I'm away because my family really hogs my time. Thanks to the hurricane I found myself with a day to myself and was able to meet up with shewolf.

It was a lot of fun. Mo thought she was so cool and told everyone about "the bug lady".

Heck, shewolf is cool!

The first day we were there Mo fell at the park and got a terrific black eye so almost every vacation photo of him has this bruise in it. It was a pretty groovy black eye though so .......

I'll have to see if I can drag up a good one.

I took hundreds of photos so I'm sure I'll be posting a bit over the next few weeks.

Soz, you KNOW that if I ever make it up that way......

People called Austin that for a while because we were stealing companies from Silicon Valley.

No worries; hope you had a fine vacation.

I know tech stuff is big in Austin. I just never put it together.

I think most of my good black eye photos are on film and I haven't even got rolls in for processing yet.

Here is one of my favorite vacation photos of Mo though. I usually don't do big color photos but sometimes the light and color really make the image:

Mo was really fascinated with my sister's and mom's painted toenails so he wanted his painted too:

I'm getting way ahead of myself! Ack!

Anyway, here's Mo and his best girl Monkey:

Funny! Cole, the nephew, watched his sister paint her finger nails and had to have polish on him. I didn't do it, but someone did. Funny thing is that they call me Gigi....... weird.

Beautiful photos! Beautiful children!

They call you Gigi!? That is funny.

Monkey is one month older than Mo and she is my sister's granddaughter. Monkey calls her Gigi so Mo does too. Everyone calls Monkey and Mo cousins but really, my neice is Mo's cousin and Monkey is his.... what?.... second cousin?

Boy do we get some strange looks trying to explain why my sister's nephew calls her grandma (okay, well, Gigi).

How's that for some hillbilly bonafides!

Oooh, the green grass one is just wonderful.

E.G. comes from a blue-eyed family. When we were in Texas visiting them, sozlet said something about how her eyes were blue, and my m-i-l said "no they're not." I said, eh??? They're blue! Then we all got in a big debate. (sozlet gazing into various peoples' eyes in turn...)

To brown-eyed me, they're blue. But the Texas family consensus is that they're hazel. They're actually a changeable blue-gray with gold/ brown flecks in them, which I have to concede ends up seeming kind of hazel.

And we have a Gigi in our family, too! (E.G's grandma, or sozlet's great-grandma --> GG --> Gigi.)

Ditto here, with Yaya's great-grandmother.

Is calling your grandma or great-grandma Gigi a real Texas thing? I met a woman in the park with her grandson and he called her Gigi too.

Littlek - how did you come by Gigi?

I like the grass one a lot too, soz. It looks almost 3-D or something. It's kind of scary though because Mo looks so grown up. In most photos of him he still look likes a little kid but once in a while..... BANG.... he looks grown up. I don't know if it's the expression on his face or what.

In the "2004" collage I posted many pages back I could see him go from baby to kid. This year I'm thinking he'll go from kid to boy.

those are great pictures!

i think my favorite is the toe nail polish one.
You can see the glumps of polish on the toes..
just as you would if a child were to have done it themselves.. smudged, glumpy but BRIGHT colored.

I'm afraid that the glumpiness has more to do with the condition of Mo's toenails than my sister's ability as a pedicurist! Mo's toes are a true testiment to his rambunctious barefoot lifestyle. I loved the contrast of his dirty feet with the pink polish.

shewolf, what was the old quote you had in your signiture line? I can't remember it exactly.

it was maureen hawkins..

i will have to dig it up again..

Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.

That is absolutely gorgeous - I never noticed it in your sig line

Here's Bean's photo with the quote and a bean graphic added.

What do you think?