J Cooper Photography

During my little photo shoot with A she decided it was only fair to turn my camera on me.  She usually hates going out for photo shoots but was such a willing (and fun) model that night that I let her take over my camera for a bit.  She posed me on my yellow chair…told me to look over my shoulder at her (she’s good isn’t she?)  This photo is proof that this photography thing really can’t be that hard.  I told her “make sure that little box lands on my face” and this is what she produced.

So as I see it I’m left with the following options:

1.  Hire her as my assistant.

2.  Set her up with her own business license and get her earning money for our adoption.  Anyone want a session?

3.  Dress her up in high heels and let her sub in for me this fall when my shooting schedule gets a bit hairy.

What do you think?

Yesterday I found my girls quietly picking out sweet melodies on our piano.  They had earnest looks of concentration on those sweet little faces as they carefully chose each note.

Then along came “Mr. Rock and Roll” and our house was really jive’n with some loud tunes!  Is he all boy or what?  The funny thing is…he is really pretty good!  He plays really fast (as can see by his blurry hands!) but he doesn’t just bang…and if you play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for him he will boogie for you all afternoon!

Last little piece of Cooper news for today…

That’s our COMPLETED home study packet before I dropped it off today at our local agency!!  Can I hear a WOOHOOO???  At our consultation a few weeks ago, the director told us an international home study usually takes about 4-6 weeks to compile.  Mr P. looked at me and then back at the director and said, “you don’t know my wife…she’ll have it done in two!”  So I had to take that as a challenge.  And I hit it EXACTLY at two weeks   We also sent in our official application packet to All God’s Children International.  We should hear back from them this week sometime and can hopefully get started on our dossier!  It feels great to be able to do something active…I know there will be MANY months of waiting where I will be wishing I could fill out a form to speed up the process!  The ball is definitely rolling!

{by the way…just realized it is Tuesday AGAIN (how do they come so quick) and I did not write this in my usual 10 on Tuesday format…super sorry…maybe next week!}