say cheese.

Ben calls these Ruby's tastefully nude photos. and, as always Emigre makes a cameo appearance near the end. For the full "show" you can go to our Flickr page, but here's a little appetizer...
Tonite is the screening for Ben's team's film for the 48 hour film festival. So, we're gathering our posse to get as many votes as possible for the "audience category". It turned out SO great!!
And tomorrow, burritos in the park, plus frisbee :) yea!!

photostream

there are new pictures up on our flickr page :)

Doin' Work in the Exersaucer

Exersaucer from Grace Saunders on Vimeo.

weekend warrior project

Ruby—June 2009 from Grace Saunders on Vimeo.

here's my (grace's)first attempt at video editing. enjoy!

Documentary evidence of the existence of the Rat Tail

The rat-tail in its natural habitat.  Since we live in Kentucky it actually improves street cred.

first date

ben and i were able to go on our first date together since Ruby was born (exactly 4 months ago today) on Sunday afternoon. We've been fairly successful at going places with her, but this was our first time out TOGETHER without the little lady. My sister and parents were over for the afternoon, so we slipped out for a quick trip. We went to Graeter's and grocery shopping, heh. How romantic :) it was nice though. a little strange at first, .. but we enjoyed it! a little anti-climactic since she's been at co-op for almost a month now, ha ha.

adventures in parenthood...

we learned a memorable parenthood lesson tonite. we decided to go for thai food and some new baby toys tonite. So, we found a new place we were ready to try, and sat down, ordered, in the middle of some pleasant conversation and a very happy, content baby. then, a little fuss, and i caught a whiff of what she'd been working on, a full diaper. SO, i check out the restroom only to discover that it's not baby-changing-friendly. So, i pick her up out of the car carrier seat, to head outside to change her in the back seat. And then i spot a giant poop-stain on her side... As i walk out to the car i think " i hope we didn't take those extra clothes out of the bag"... somehow knowing that we did. And wondering what that would mean since she was wearing a one-piece. and i was right. So, after i get her into a clean diaper in the parking lot i just sort of stood there staring at my little naked baby on the backseat of the car, smiling up at me.. hoping that if i thought hard enough i'd remember somewhere we had stashed some extra clothes. Since the only other clothing in her bag was a jacket i put that on first, still hoping for genius to strike. and then i found that my only other option (Aside from walking a half-naked baby into a somewhat nice restaurant, and past nice people eating their dinners-which i couldn't bring myself to do) was to wrap my nursing cover around her, and hope it looked like she was just bundled in a blanket. As, i had also left her blanket in the restaurant with her carrier seat. As soon as we walked back in Ben looked at my smirk and knew exactly what had transpired. So, once we sat down, i popped her back into her carrier seat, and just covered her up with her blanket. No big deal.

or so i thought. THen i realized that Ruby refused to keep our little secret-that i was a poorly-prepared mom, and she was ready to out me to the world. That little stinker thought it was hilarious to kick her leg until she got the blanket off over and over. WHenever we watched her she would pretend she couldn't get it off, and as soon as i'd look away to eat, POOF! there was her diaper and bare legs showing again. along with a really funny little grin on her face. I read that her sense of humor is beginning to develop now that she's almost 4 months old, and tonite was evidence of that :)
the lesson is: always, ALWAYS make sure you're prepared for blowouts.

This little piggy went to market...

Saturday morning at Findlay Market with Auntie M.

Ruby learned how to laugh

1st Laugh from Grace Saunders on Vimeo.

The best ones are toward the end.

RGB

But, with the addition of our gal Ruby, our family initials spell out RGB. (i get a HUGE kick out of this!!) I promise that was not a factor in choosing her name.. honestly. but i (grace) got REALLY excited when i realized it!

RGB= Red, Blue, Green. a term used by design/video geeks to refer to the colorspace used by an image or video.

we know. we're geeks, and proud of it :)

another day, another photo shoot

yeah... i can't help myself!!!
3-day weekends are always good for a random photoshoot or two :)
we created a flickr photostream (click the link on the right) for more photos, so that we can share more of them than we can put on here.

A BIG week

this was a week of firsts for our family. First mother's day. First week back to work for Grace. First week at co-op daycare and first roll-overs for Ruby.
Last weekend we had 3 days all-together, and we did lots of fun family stuff. It was great hang time. Sunday we went to brunch:
Then we went to the zoo. Ruby slept almost entirely through the zoo, except for (literally) the last 10 minutes, which we knew might happen. Still, we had fun.
Then we had a picnic dinner:THe next day was the first day back to work and leaving Ruby at co-op daycare. THere were lots of tears, though i don't think any of them were Ruby's :) But, we survived, she seems to be having a great time during the day with Miss Megan and her new baby friends. For now she's the littlest one, so she's getting a lot of attention for that.
Ruby's even been helping Grace with her work :)
And, she's got a new favorite toy, her super-soft bunny. loves it!!

i'm ready for my close up...

can never have enough baby photos!!!

a few new pics

a few new things Ruby likes to do. She enjoys sitting, playing with AUnt Mae, eating her hand, and more eating of the hand.

We found this...

on the baby. Thank you #61 for making sure we got such a great baby!

the gift of gab

Our gal has recently started talking up a storm, so we thought we ought to share what she's been up to. It's hilariously cute :)

Ruby Talking from Grace Saunders on Vimeo.

Baby's 1st iPod

We dug up Grace's old iPod and wiped it clean and put Ruby's music on it. Now she can listen to 'Drop it like its hot' whenever she wants.

a 15-minute snippet of Ruby's day

12:45
12:47
(daddy walked past in front of her)

12:50
(Emigre tries to sniff her sweet baby smell)

12:55
(mommy's making faces at her)
1:00
(lunchtime)

my amazingly talented sister...

and if you don't believe me, here's the proof.
She wrote all the songs herself, and i think they... are... awesome! The only thing that's possibly better than the songs themselves, is getting to watch her "perform" them in the videos. enjoy!

tough as nails

Yesterday was Ruby's 2-month birthday (hard to believe), and for her birthday she got an arsenal of shots, bummer. There was crying, but also some really cool band-aids. My favorite is the pink camo band-aid. She's okay today though, she doesn't even remember it, thank goodness :)
this weekend we'll be trekking up to my family's for Easter, so it's our first road trip, yipee! ...and her first easter basket :)