Shameless photo overkill

I am behind my camera a lot lately.  I love it.  Yes, I should be behind a APRN test prep book, but I found that these last two years that I've sacrificed to school, my documentation of the important things in life has taken the wayside.  So maybe I am attempting to remedy that with photo overkill lately, or maybe it is senioritis from school, or maybe it is the newest little life we have in our family who seems to change by the millisecond…but I dig the fact that I've taken 800 photos this month.  These tiny people growing up way too quickly.  

Little boys who giggle at videos they record of themselves on my phone, doing inappropriate "potty talk, and then watching them back and giggling those belly giggles" 

A little girl learning to wink, and the facial expressions she is flashing now..

The unfolding of a true conversation about the next picture

"Hey Ryker, your shirt is on backwards…" - me

"If I turn my head then it isn't mom, see…"- Ryker

Following suite with her biggest brother's fashion sense today - Jovie put her dress on backward.  The conversation we had about it:

"Jov, you put your dress on backward, you want me to help you fix it." - Me

"but mama it doesn't need fixed, I wanna see the beautiful bow and if we turn it around I don't getta see it."- Jovie

Girlfriend has logic, I suppose.  And so she wore it backward all day.

A few detail about our sweet girl that I adore: Hartley has the cutest little ears.  Her left ear has a little extra something to the pinna, and I think it is adorable.

She also has crazy long toes, and she dances them around when she gets really excited.

 She really makes eye contact now.  Not that gazed off newborn stare, but the look of a little lady who is in love with her mama.  Such a rewarding moment when they reach these milestones.

Bummer of a blurry photo, but her sweet smile makes this photo a forever keeper.

She is really beginning to "talk" and goodness, even with this being the 4th time around, it is still so very exciting.

I'm going to sock you if you keep sticking that camera in my face.

 This photo shoot is exhausting

 and these sweet sister, sigh.  Can there be anything more precious in the world?

 Jovie is SUCH a little mama to her baby sister, constantly giving her kisses and loves.  She also loves putting hair accessories on Hartley.

She is also a little mama to her brothers.  She attempts to kiss Ryker daily, which he isn't the biggest fan of.  But he doesn't complain about her snuggles, usually :)

 and then the littlest Loprinzi got tired and fussy, and the three "bigs" started to get too rowdy... so the camera had to go.