Adventures of Photographing a One Year Old and GO CARDINALS!

First of all, photography is a recently new hobby of mine. I'm learning all the time. Its been fun for me most of the time. Its been frustrating at other times. But its taking me out of my comfort zone. I try to think a little bit before I just start shooting. I'm I good at it? I don't know. I feel like Ive taken some pretty good shots and for each one of those shots I taken a million bad ones. I don't have photoshop (its not for lack of want believe me), so all of the photos that you see here and at my photo blog are straight out of my camera with the only editing being a possible crop. I kinda like it that way for now. Would some of my photos be better with a little editing, yes they would. But I think if I knew I could just fix all my photos after I take them I would become lazy with shooting them in the first place. I don't know, like I said, I'm still new at this.

So Ill walk you through my thought process on this mornings adventures.

I don't know about you but I am soooo excited about game 5 for the Cardinals tonight! So excited I threw on my sparkly Cards tshirt, dirty white STL hat, and red and white polka dot socks. Because I'm the mom of a little tike, I get to dress my kid in whatever tickles my fancy. So on went the Cards onesies and matching shorts. I even grabbed his hat in hopes that he would keep it on for more than 30 seconds. I wanted to write a blog post today about how excited I am for the game tonight so I needed some cute photos to go with it. So out to the front yard we went dressed in our Cardinals garb. I don't know what I thought was going to happen but I slung my camera over my shoulder ready to capture whatever went down. I was hoping for at least one shot of Little G all cardinaled up and lookin cute, cutie pie face, standing still. Now here's what I got.

Hmmm, I think Ill hide behind this hat, but I wont wear it.

I throw the hat. Please note the smirk on his face. Brat.

I'M YELLING! Nice face dude. I laughed out loud when I saw this.

I'm running. I'm also not looking at where I'm going. Take an action shot mom. Are you watching?

Whats this shadow thing? I don't know, but Ill chase it while I bear crawl on the driveway.

No, I will not look at you if you put my hat on backwards.

I'm a skilled bubble blower.

Hmmmm. These rocks are so interesting. What should I do with them?

Ill put them in my mouth. Oh crap, you are watching me. What? I'm not supposed to do that?

Okay then Ill just lick them.

And because I love you, a peek behind the camera.

So there you go. Little G's and my photo contribution to the Cardinals nation. 

So whats next on the list for my "Go Cards" post? Well here's a little song for you. 

"Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Cardinals - It's your birthday - Were gonna party like it your birthday..." 

You must sing it to the tune of 50 Cent In the club. Not familiar? Here is a dorky youtube vid to get ya going Go Shorty I'm a family lady so its a video of a lizard dancing to the mostly edited language version.

Cant do the lizard dance? How about some sweet "churn the butter" moves. Its my preferred dance. While wasting time on youtube finding you the most informative "churn the butter" step by step dance guide, I found this gem. Now normally I wouldn't have posted this video but mama rapper seems to be sporting a pretty awesome hat, so here ya go. You gotta wait like a minute before yall see what I'm talkin about. lean wit it, rock wit it, hold on, stop, do the Butta Churn While I could pick apart this video all day (did ya notice the white ankle socks with the black flip flops? Straight up gangsta if you ask me!) I am going to choose to not hate on what are apparently my STL homies.

Anyways throw it all together and what do you got? My perfect Go Cards song and dance.

PS
GO CARDINALS!!!!!!!!!!!