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Our Baby’s Pretty Eyes Won the Photo Contest!

Thanks to all of you who took the time to vote for Avery in the Metroplex Baby & Kids Photo Contest I wrote about last week, she won! I know it’s not a major contest, and you don’t actually win a prize, she just gets recognition on the website and is entered to win Cutest Kid of 2015!

The winning photo:

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Here’s the link to see her Cutest Kid of the Week profile.

Again, Going Mom and I truly appreciate all of our friends and family who voted and shared the contest with others.

Since I am convinced Avery’s eyes only add brilliance to her already beautiful face, I am going to share several close-up shots we’ve taken over the course of this month.

No more words of “wisdom” or rants about baby formula ads from me……at least not today, just some pretty pictures of our baby. Enjoy!

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Mesmerizing. That’s all I can say.

Do you have any close-up shots of your kids’ eyes? For the several I posted here, we probably took close to 1000 pictures that were blurry or something else wrong about them. Ahhh, the life as a parent.

Vote for Our Baby in the Metroplex Baby & Kids Photo Contest

Hey there! Hope you’re having a great Monday! Are you off for MLK Day? Going Mom is and we’re keeping it low key just staying at home with lots of coffee!

I just wanted to make a quick post asking for your help.  We’ve had great help from other friends, family, and even other bloggers (also considered friends!). Thank you, Tony! Check out his awesome dad blog, Papa Tont, for a vast source of knowledge on fitness and nutrition as well as being a great dad!

A local parenting site/magazine, Metroplex Baby & Kids, holds a monthly photo contest for the “Cutest Kid” and Avery is a finalist this month! I’m posting this pretty late since the voting ends tomorrow, January 20th, but hopefully you can vote in time to keep her in the lead.

Please go to their Facebook page at this link (or click the picture below) and vote for Avery. Let me know if you did in the comments and I’ll send you virtual hugs and high fives!

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Look into Avery’s eyes…..”Please vote for me” is what they’re saying. Hear it?

Thank you in advance and hope your week is off to a great start! By the way, it’s almost 70 degrees here in Texas. Beautiful!

Why Avery is the Top Baby Model

Does that come off as boisterous? Well, maybe it is…..a little, but if you’re a parent, you already know the answer; because your baby is always the top model!

Furthermore, I’d say us parents think of our offspring as the best for anything! If I’m wrong, I hope your little one gets self confidence somewhere.

This past weekend, Going Mom and I snapped a few a lot hundreds of photos of Avery and they were the best baby pictures we’ve ever seen! I took a few of her sitting in her Mamas & Papas chair as she gave a softer version of the Blue Steel pose from Zoolander. If you haven’t seen the movie, watch it!

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Then Kelley shot a few pics while Avery rolled around on our bed. I swear, she furnished smiles that would melt the hearts of even the scroogiest of scrooges. But that’s a daily thing…

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She was even good and tilting her head and giving that “I want to play” kind of smile. Maybe not knowingly, but she is the best at everything afterall!

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And I mean c’mon, what baby knows to just look straight out the window and be still so mommy can take a picture? What? Oh, that many? Well, I’m pretty positive Avery is a better window looker outer than those other babies.

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So maybe I’m biased, but what parent isn’t? I’d feel downright ashamed if I’m like, “Wow, those people have the cutest baby, I wish our baby was that cute.” And I hope Going Mom would slap me across the face if I were to say something like that.

Luckily, I will never say that, so my face can rest assured it won’t be slapped…….at least not for that reason! By now you get my point, most parents think the world of their own baby just like they should, and by giving them this love, I feel it helps build a healthy self-esteem.

Kelley and I tell Avery how much we love her and how beautiful she is multiple times a day, and I hope you do the same for your little one(s). If you haven’t, go right now, and with a smile on your face!

I’m lucky enough to have two beautiful ladies under my roof and I need to make sure I tell them both how wonderful they are and how much I love them.

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Admittedly, I did try to submit a few of these pictures to an online photo contest of sorts where agents can see them, but never went through with it. Not because I don’t have confidence in our beautiful baby, not at all, but because the site was trying to charge just to submit photos!

I get they are “helping” Avery be seen by agents and whatnot, but I’m not trying to get her in the modeling business, I just wanted to show my beautiful baby to the world and maybe enter her in a little contest. So, I cancelled the submission once I saw the signs to enter credit card info.

I asked Avery how she would like to have an early career in the modeling industry, but I don’t think she was too interested…

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Yeah, we’ll stick with learning how to crawl, walk, eat, sleep better, and playtime at this age, nothing more.

Have you ever considered entering your child in a photo contest?

Or have you entered your child before? Any awards?

Do you feel like your baby is the best at everything and everyone else’s is subpar or at least just not as fantastic as yours?