explore | austin photographer lyndsay stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-04T22:11:53-06:00January 4th, 2010|My Family|

While my mom was here we had a free day with not much planned so we decided to take the kids out exploring. Teagan and I have been to this particular sculpture garden several times before, we like to go out exploring new places while the older two are in school. He loves this place. It is peaceful, never overrun with people and he just has the space, time and energy to be a boy. I knew the older kids would love it too so we gathered up our fancy smanshy magnifying glasses and headed out.

Exploring involves leaves, rocks and sticks. Touching them, throwing them, dropping them into the water and […]

hot chocolate | austin photographer lyndsay stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-03T23:33:53-06:00January 3rd, 2010|My Family|

As mentioned in my previous post, my family drank a lot of hot chocolate in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Perhaps it is because it’s freezing outside. Well, ok, freezing according to Texas standards…but in my defense it has snowed 2 times at our house this year, once on Christmas Eve no less! And our house is drafty in the back. And we like chocolate (ovaltine and milk really). Christmas Eve we all gathered in the kitchen as Jason prepared our tradition of hot chocolate before bed.

This year, a certain someone was juuuuuust tall enough to do this:

Marshmallow thief!!!!

tonight | austin photographer lyndsay stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-03T23:14:26-06:00January 3rd, 2010|My Family|

I’ve been grasping to Teagan’s baby days. And yet they are escaping me. He will be 2 in 37 days. But there are so many things I love about having a toddler boy in the house again. Rough. Tumble. Sweet. Dirty. Funny. The way he makes car noises with instinct. The way he clutches onto things with his chubby little hands and drags them with him everywhere he goes. His fascination over anything with wheels and dinosaurs and anything big or loud. He’s turning in to a boy. And I love it.

Tonight, as I laid down with him in his bed to read him a story, he clutched on to his favorite buzz lightyear glow in the dark flashlight. We […]