The Bean Makes A Video

I’m wondering where she gets her shooting style?  Hmmm….

Not too shabby for a 4 year old.  This video was taken during her quiet time  alone in her room without any coaching or prompting by the Mrs or me.

Happy Father’s Day! Love You Snoop Maddie Mad! Love You Beannie Kabeannie!

Since the girls are off to Connecticut today I got my Father’s Day Present at Last Night’s Block Party.  The Bean made me a beautiful picture book with photos that she had taken with her new camera and Snoop Maddie Mad made be a paperweight with a nice picture that she drew on it.

It was nice to spend the night with the family 🙂

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(nice pasta sauce Mad)

Happy Father’s Day Dad

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Mom and Dad With Bass Rocks Buddies at Last Night’s Block Party

Fun With Snoop Mad and The Bean- Random Clips

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Snoop Maddie Mad and The Bean Make Beautiful Music With Mammaw

 

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Comparing Hand Sizes With The Bean

I don’t want her to get any bigger. 

 

The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad Horse Around at The Naples Beach Club

 

The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad Horse Around at The Naples Beach Club, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

We made the girl’s names out of shells.  I figure this will make a nice picture blown up for them.  Maybe we will put them in their bathroom.

Here’s the Bean’s-

It was a quiet beach day realtively speaking-

 

The Bean and Daddy’s Photo Safari Slide Show

Well mammaw got the Bean her first camera for Easter and yesterday we walked around Fifth Avenue and The Naples Pier (the same pier my grandfather Captain Joe used to fish off of daily during his winters in Naples).  We spent the day on a photo safari taking pictures and me teaching her some of the basics.  I have to say that at her young age of 4 and a half she really does a pretty good job of framing her shots. 

I’ve been teaching her about trying to take pictures with the light behind you and shining onto your subjects and teaching her about some of the basic functions on the camera like the macro setting and other stuff.  She really seems to love it and I had about the best time that I’ve had down here sharing one of my passions with my daughter.  It was just great.

The slide show is a mix of pictures that she took and I took while on our photo safari together.

click the picture for the slide show

Happy Easter From The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad

 

 

The Bean’s Buoy from The Lobster Trap Tree

Thanks to David and Dawn from Art Haven

here’s the buoy that The Bean painted for the Lobster Trap Tree back in December.  She’s a beaut ain’t she?

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picture taken by The Bean also

The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad’s Easter Grass Project At Tee Tee’s House

Sammi, Bj and Amanda all plant Easter basket grass at sister Felicia’s this weekend.  Today Joe Langhan and Gianni Gallo will be shooting another round of cooking shows at Felicia’s house.  That place is a whirlwind of activity I tell ya.

Fun City

Cousin BJ Hamming It Up
Cousin Amandacakes Tennis Superstar!
The Finished Product

The Girls Could Throw Pennies Into Fountains For Hours On End

 

 

The Girls

Heading home today. 

Although the weather we’ve had has been the worst I’ve experienced in almost 20 years of coming to Naples it was still a successful trip.  The girls have been spectacular and we found plenty of other fun things to do.   The parks being the main attractions for the girls.

The Girls, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Mom has been spoiling the girls

Ice cream every day, stuffed animals, cooking incredible meals.  Mom is a saint.

Mom has been spoiling the girls, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Don’t Mess With Snoop Maddie Mad

Adventures in babysitting day3.

We’ve been going to the park every day for a couple different reasons-Cambier Park behind Fifth Ave in Naples is a pretty bad ass park, the girls love it there and beg to go back, and we’ve been finishing up the days there running them hard to get them to sleep well at night.

Well yesteday we had an interesting experience with a little boy.  He was about 6 years old and Snoop Mad and The Bean are 2 and 4 respectively.  The way the park is set up you run around and climb up this pretty elaborate maze of steps and turns to get to the top of the slide platform.  The girls would make their way up there and then come flying down the slide one by one. 

I was watching them do this routine over and over and there was another couple about ten feet away who were watching their 6 year old boy.

The boy started to harass the girls a little bit by standing at the bottom of the slide and making scary noises so they didnt want to come down.

I don’t want to baby them too much and realize that they are going to have to learn how to handle themselves in these situations so I just went over to the slide to make sure the kid didn’t hit them or anything and I told the girls to wait for the little boy to move before they came down the slide.

The parents of this little boy were standing just 10 feet away and obviously saw what was going on but did nothing and I was a little pissed off about that but again I realize that I’m not always going to be there when the girls encounter these kinds of situations so I watched to make sure they were safe but also I didn’t want the girls to get too nervous.

So you should know that the elder of the girls The Bean is like me- neurotic and nervous most of the time.  The two year old Snoop Maddie Mad however is an entirely different animal, she’s just wired differently.  She has no fear, she acts without thinking and is headstrong like her mother.

Well the boy finally moved (no thanks to his parents which I’m sure the father was getting off on his son’s behavior) and the Bean and Snoop Mad came down the slide.   At the bottom of the slide Snoop Mad got right up in the boy’s grill and stuck her finger in his belly and Screamed “You’re BADDDD!” and gave him a shove.  The kid had to be three times her size but went off skulking.

Atta girl MaddiePie!

Don’t Mess With Snoop Maddie Mad, originally uploaded by captjoe06.