J Cooper Photography

1.  My kids need straight jackets.  Mr. P is out of the country, it has been raining/sleeting/snowing since Sunday morning, it was early release day, S man is cutting another tooth, A has an ear infection.  Oh wait.  I NEED the straight jacket.  Zip me up and haul me off.  That padded room would be my pleasure!

2.  Friday afternoon it was 70 degrees and sunny.  Today we woke up to this (illustrated by my budding newly-turned 5 year old).  Funny how I look happy about snow in November in this picture.

3.  WE HAVE NUMBERS.  Yes we do!  Can’t share til tomorrow though

4.  But there is a funny (it is only funny because we now actually have our numbers) story behind it.  We sent in our dossier last week.  Our international agency does dossier reviews on Fridays.  We were anticipating “THE CALL” all afternoon.  When it hadn’t come by dinner time we turned on our cel phones and went to dinner.  After our arrival home we promptly realized we had missed “THE CALL” from our agency.  The message light was blinking.  “I’d love to chat with your about your dossier…I guess I’ll catch you Monday morning”….I about died.  No calls to our cel phones.  No message relaying whether our dossier passed.  NO NUMBERS.  So we did what we had to do…we waited until Monday morning.  And because of a miscommunication we DID NOT make the wait list.  I didn’t send in our passport photos.  We have current passports.  I was told we didn’t need to send in additional passport photos.  But apparantly our dossier wasn’t complete until they had them.  This wouldn’t have been a big deal, except Mr. P is in AMSTERDAM.  So this morning I emailed him the following “if there is any way for you to excuse yourself from your full day at that conference, find transportation, locate a place to get passport photos made, find a color scanner, and email those photos to our case manager, would you mind doing so…and preferably by tonight!”  HA!  But you know what.  Mr. P DID IT!  He found an online program that helped him create a passport photo.  He used his Iphone and stood in front of the white bathroom door at the hotel…took 20 pictures of himself and loaded them into that program…then emailed them to our case manager.  I LOVE THAT MAN!!!  So now we HAVE NUMBERS!!!  Anyone want to guess what they are??

5. A loves to try out new words in conversation.  When I was getting her ready for bed tonight she said “you should DECLARE to yourself that you need to go to bed early tonight”.  Love her.

6.  I have to give a BIG shout out to my mother in law who is here this week cooking, kid wrangling, diaper changing, babysitting, and keeping me sane!

7.  Little man is going to the ENT on Thursday and I am anxious to hear what he has to say about his little ears.  Hoping he has some ideas for keeping the infections at bay!

8.  I am *almost* done with my fall session editing.  Thank you to all my clients for your patience!!  I should have my last gallery up shortly.  And if you are planning on ordering prints or Christmas cards from your fall session but haven’t done so yet we are getting dangerously close to our holiday time cut-offs!!

9.  Last week before the cold snap I took sweet J out for a photoshoot for the Matilda Jane PHOTO LOVE contest.  We had so much fun (read:  I bribed the heck out of her).  I think I got a really fun and unique image to enter in the contest and can’t wait to share it with everyone!

10.  Stop back tomorrow to help us celebrate our place on the ETHIOPIAN WAIT LIST!!