2009-02-28

This is what an entirely new wardrobe for a 4-year-old looks like (except I forgot the shoes, but you've already seen those). I've spent most of the month of February acquiring it, and I intend to pack most of it this weekend in preparation for our Disney trip, so I thought it was a fitting final photo for the month.

2009-02-27

This was the best puddle with any sort of reflection (besides sky) that I could find today. It was actually nice to see puddles for a change! It's rained some in the last few weeks, but usually only enough to make the pavement wet, not to leave pools of water. Kind-of nice for a change.

2009-02-26

I had never noticed this moss on the curb at Luke's school before today. It rained last night for the first time in ages, so I imagine it was much greener today than usual, both from a good drink of water and from having some of the grime washed off (the curb is in the parking lot). I wish I had something in the picture for scale. The "puff" is about an inch high.

2009-02-25

This was the sign posted next to Luke's room at school today. I want to know who he bribed to get this assignment! LOL He loves to pick up rocks (so did I at his age), and we are constantly having to make him leave them wherever he found them. Now we have to go out and specifically let him pick some up for school!

2009-02-24

This is some of the Valentine candy DH gave me. I intended to crop out the bowl, but I actually liked it better with the pink rim left in the photo. DH and hearts have been on my mind a lot today. DH was having some stomach problems, and he voluntarily decided to see a doctor. The fact that he did so with no nagging from me was scary enough. He came home today with a diagnosis of a hiatal hernia, a knot on his thyroid, and a heart murmur that no one ever mentioned before. There were also some anomalies on his EKG, so they have asked him to come back for a stress test next week. It's a little scary, though I know most of those conditions are not life threatening. Most of them are not life affecting in any way. Let's hope that is the case.

2009-02-23

Upgrading is good! This is for anyone who remembers the unusual family portrait I posted on my regular blog back in December. Several people begged me to get DH new shoes for Christmas! Well, it's not Christmas, but the man finally has new shoes. A great improvement, no? He should have just enough time to break them in well before we get to Disney.

2009-02-22

Look carefully at the hands using the keyboard. What do you notice? LOL I looked over there while they were playing and did a double-take; my brain just couldn't quite process what I was seeing. It seems Luke cannot play the Star Wars online game (not sure which one) by himself. He wants to do all of the attack moves, but he can't coordinate that with the positioning movies (up, down, left, right). So DH "drives" while Luke attacks, each using one hand on the keyboard. Ah, father-son bonding time.

2009-02-21

I had a hard time with this photo, getting the item of interest to show up while leaving enough of the surrounding environment so you could see it in context. See the large (tennis ball size) nearly circular hole in my headlight? DH noticed that this evening as we got out the car at home. He noticed that the right headlight looked funny bouncing off the wall as we pulled into the garage. I remember a large black rock heading for my head on the interstate earlier that morning. It lost altitude a lot faster than I thought it would and struck the front of the car instead. It didn't sound that bad, though, so it never occurred to me to check it. That is the same light that was replaced when the woman ran the red light and hit DH and DS about 2.5 years ago (wow, was it really that long ago?), we just get to replace it on our own dime this time. Joy.

2009-02-20

I really love this tree at Luke's school. I know it doesn't look like much now, but I hope to take a picture of it during each season to show its progression. I had to hurry, though. Spring is just around the corner!

2009-02-19

* this is a make-up photo

Well, I did it again. I missed another one. I know it's just two, but I am disappointed. This does, however, represent why, though it read 100.1 yesterday when I went to bed around 8:30. I was so tired, and I felt so bad. I was trying really hard to follow in the footsteps of my husband and son and be sick, but I managed to get away with just a fever and nausea. But given the choice, I'd rather do it now than while we're at Disney in a couple of weeks!

2009-02-18

Nature is putting on quite the show tonight! We watched the cloud to cloud lightning all the way home this evening, and I really wanted to try and get a shot of it. There are so many trees around our house that such an objective was difficult, but I finally found a somewhat clear spot. I'm sure there were better settings to use, but this is the best I could do in a hurry. This was also handheld with a 1 second exposure, so it is blurry, but not too bad I don't think. (There was no place to put the tripod that you could still see the clouds over the trees.) And because it was cloud to cloud, there weren't any huge blazing bolts, just a lot of highlighting the cloud contours from within. Very pretty, and I'm fairly pleased with my spur of the moment results. There was a little contrast enhancement here, but not much.

2009-02-17

A boy's first pair of Nikes. Quite a momentus occasion, from what I hear (from the guy who sold them to us; he even gave us free socks for the event!). They didn't have any New Balance styles I liked at that store, so I checked out the other brands. I was looking for something I liked that fit and was not insanely expensive, and this is what I found. Only after the sales guy brought out the box did I realize they were Nike, LOL. He's had them for about a week, but I'm just now getting around to photographing them.

2009-02-16

All three of my boys. We are evenly matched in the house with 3 boys and 3 girls, though the girls come out ahead on the number of legs (boys 8, girls 10).

2009-02-15

Luke and DH were feeling much better this morning. Luke was so chipper when he woke up at 7:40, I was expecting him to burst in to song at any moment, so we went ahead with our family excursion to the Georgia Aquarium. My parents were supposed to be here yesterday, but they avoided the house to give L and DH time to recover. They came by the house this morning, and off we went. Luke only lasts about 90 minutes at these sorts of things, but that's okay. He seemed to have fun.