Life as #2

I've seen it happen in nearly every family album. Six thousand photos of the first kid. (Oh look, she twitched, how cute!) Maybe sixty of the second kid. And a whopping six of the third. Somehow, I thought with all the digital cameras and easy downloading of photos, that we wouldn't fall victim to that cycle. Alas, while perusing our scanty blog posts since our #2's birth, it's obvious that we're no exception to that rule. And to add to my guilt, over Thanksgiving, my parents mentioned on multiple occasions that they don't have any pictures of Ainsley. In our defense, many of our attempts to capture Ainsley on camera have turned out much like this...
or this...
or this...
and (my personal favorite) this...
In fact, most of our attempts to give Ainsley any kind of attention (whether captured on film or not), more or less turn out this way. Ainsley has only been alive 17 months, but she could already write a book about sibling rivalry. Or perhaps it could be a book about being the mellow yin to our #1's crazy yang.

At any rate, we love our Ains! She is so full of personality and she cracks us up on a regular basis. The next post, kiddo, will be all about you.