Archive for December, 2006

that peaceful, but slightly uneasy feelin’

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Everyone’s asleep except me. It would be the perfect time to sneak off and go shower and color my hair but if I do, the baby will wake up and Mouse will have a seizure and Kevin will have a baby diaper-related emergency (like the baby pooping in his diaper, or peeing in his diaper, [...]

That time I accidentally raised a valley girl/ scientist/ artist/ dolphin/ giraffe/ total grump

Friday, December 29th, 2006

He took one bite of his lunch, and let out a howl. “Owwwwww! This pizza is all like: YAY! We’re going to totally burn this boy’s throat.”
“Nicolaus…”
“And then? Graham was all, HAHA big brother, you ate something spicy and you don’t like spicy food.”
“Dude.”
“And now Mouse is saying hooray I’m going to beg and beg [...]

Photoshop your way into their hearts

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Whatever Tiffany, so you celebrated Christmas, babies are cute, Santa talks with a Texas accent, FASCINATING. But what about the photo tips? Aren’t those the real meaning of Christmas? Besides, don’t you owe us since you told us to turn off our flash and now we did and all of our holiday pictures are too [...]

And so this was Christmas

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

This year was weird, but in many ways it was perfect. We begged everyone to scale back the hoopla and the gift giving, and most people did. The focus was on visiting with family and eating and watching the kids run around and argue over each other’s gifts, which is what the season is really [...]

Cheap cameras don’t take crappy photos, people do

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Some of the questions I am most frequently asked – not counting “Did you see what your baby giraffe just did?” and “Did you? DID YOU SEE?” – are things like “Do you have some sort of special camera setting that allowed you to get that great shot?” and “Is it the camera? Is it [...]