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William’s First Food

On Thanksgiving Day, we decided to feed William his first food – baby oatmeal! We started Zachary on oatmeal at five months old too (click here for some adorable photos of Z’s first time eating).

I was not surprised, William LOVED the oatmeal! His first couple tastes were a little unsure, but by the end he was pulling my hand towards his mouth! I’ve been feeding him oatmeal every day since Thanksgiving and a few days ago started giving it to him twice a day with a little bit of apple or pear puree in it, and he’s obsessed. He says “mmmm” with every bite. It is the CUTEST thing!

Here are some photos of Will’s first time eating oatmeal. Even Zachary got in on the fun and helped with the feeding process.

baby eating first solid food

baby eating first solid food

baby eating first solid food

baby eating first solid food

baby eating first solid food

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Snapshots from a happy life

OMG. I feel like I haven’t done a real blog post in weeks… and I’m probably right. I can’t believe that tonight is already the first night of Hanukkah! Whoa!!!

We had a pretty great Thanksgiving — food was off the charts as usual with my mom and dad cooking all the food, and my boys both loved visiting with my parents and my grandmother. I usually take December off, but the past week has been busy – I shot a wedding and two portrait sessions! I am buried over my head in editing now, but that’s life! The past few weeks have been full of lots of “firsts” for William, and of course Zachary turned 4 and has been acting more grown up every day. The kids are both so fun to be around and are really the lights of our lives!

A few weeks ago, William started to “tripod” when you sat him up for a few seconds! He is really improving at this skill every time he tries.

Five months! Little cutie is practicing his new skill, sitting up, before bed!

Here’s Zachary the night before he turned 4 years old. I seriously can’t believe I have a 4 year old now!

Last night of being a three year old. Wow.

Another “first” for William — sitting in the shopping cart! He went with me to Publix on Zachary’s birthday to pick out a birthday cupcake. He loved sitting in the cart!

Baby William went to Publix with me to pick up Zachary's birthday dinner. It was his first time sitting in the cart and he loved it!

For a Thanksgiving morning treat, I made this baked French toast dish that I found on Pinterest… holy cow was it amazing! Something you can really only eat once a year for sure, but it was so good!

Baked French Toast for Thanksgiving #breakfast. Holy Amazingness!!!!

On Thanksgiving Day, I decided to feed William his first solid food — baby oatmeal! Zachary was given the honor of being allowed to feed his little brother some of his first bites. So cute! William enjoyed it and is now eating oatmeal like a little champ!

My 4 year old feeding my 5 month old his first ever food! #myheartismelting

My dad carving the Thanksgiving turkey! Yum!

My dad carved the turkey. Yum! #thanksgiving

We had our family pictures taken by my good friend Laurel Serra at Mizner Park in Boca Raton! Can’t wait to share them on here. I took a little behind the scenes shot during our photo shoot!

Behind the scenes at our family portraits with Laurel Serra! At @miznerpark

Me and Laurel after our shoot:

Me & Laurel! Laurel photographed out family tonight in @miznerpark - she rocks!!

While I was eating lunch, I let William try a little bit of my avocado mashed up… he was not a fan, but his face is soooo cute!

Trying avocado for the first time! Not sure if he liked it! Lol!

Even though Zachary is moving in the photo, I still love this image of him and Maya. BFFs for life!

Maya & Zachary: BFFs :) #dogstagram #dachshund #igersftl

This is the beach outside my client’s hotel suite at the Ritz Carlton at the wedding I photographed last week. Wish I could stay here every weekend! LOL!

Sunset on Palm Beach.

Adrian and I had to run some errands up in West Palm Beach last week and we took little William with us. He enjoyed walking with us by the water and “flying” with Daddy.

William loves being flown around by Daddy @explorerziem - enjoying quality time on a beautiful day in Palm Beach!

Zachary looked so adorable before school the other day wearing a cute shirt that his Aunt Amy got for him – I could not resist snapping a quick shot before he got in the car.

Z looks good in yellow! Thank you Aunt Amy for the awesome shirt! :) @azachofsky

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Music has ALWAYS been important to me. Growing up, I listened to great musicians and bands with my dad, like Gloria Estefan (who inspired me to learn Spanish AND play guitar in middle school), and Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac (who inspired me to learn to write poetry in high school). Every single day on the drive to school, my dad and I would listen to “Rhiannon” by Fleetwood Mac. The song was about six and a half minutes long — the same length as the drive to school.

In college, I continued with my love of music by helping to start a student-run radio station with a group of my friends — Knightcast at the University of Central Florida. I had my own radio show for two years and played all kinds of music, show casing my favorite songs and bands. I also wrote for the college newspaper as a concert reviewer and was able to attend, photograph, and review concerts by Matchbox Twenty, Ani DiFranco, Fuel, and more. I had such an amazing time and that period of my life remains one of my favorite music-related memories.

Now that I have my own family, I hope to instill the same love of music in my kids. My husband and I enjoy many varieties of music – from Aerosmith to Muse to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra!  And we are always listening to music in the car with both of our boys. Our older boy loves to sing and play on our piano, and our five month old finds music to be extremely calming and “sings” along with his goo-goo-ga-gas in the car – so I think we are on the right track to raising boys who “ROCK” and love music as much as we do!

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Zachary “playing” the piano

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