Ornery Musings

Hello Blog!

I haven't seen you in a few weeks, and with school starting soon, I'll be seeing even less of you. Such is life, my fairweather friend.

I couldn't let my anniversary slip by without an entry! It's been a looooong great five years! Seriously though, I'm not the mushy type, but I can't think of anyone else I'd rather have traveled this road with. Gush, gush, gush.

As with most things in life you get what you put in, and I think we've both done our share of giving and getting, sometimes unequally, but more often almost perfectly in sync. There are still plenty of kinks to work out before I'd call us a well oiled machine, but I'm confident that that will come with time. So, honey, here's to a wonderful five twelve years! Kiss, kiss!

Did I mention he bought me a tripod?? I played around with it a bit before we headed off to dinner. After all, a family photo IS on Zoe's school supply list =) I couldn't very well send her to school with an old one!!

After all I could eat (about three lbs! YUM) of these...

(I was SO ready to dive into that second plate, but I paused too long and the "STOP EATING YOU COW" message that my stomach was frantically sending north finally reached my brain, so I took this picture instead.)

and about three sips of this....

(Alcohol and me DO NOT mix, I try, it doesn't work. I wonder how many years will pass before my husband stops ordering me a drink...)

I was ready for BED!!!. But we headed off to see a movie Inglourious Basterds Yeah, SUPER romantic! Totally fitting for an anniversary date, NOT. However I enjoyed the poop out of it! It was hilarious, and I'd actually like to see it again (I rarely if EVER say this about a movie).

Now, while I had a fine evening with my hubby, I'd like to spend my next anniversary on a beach near a wonderfully warm ocean, sans kids. Hint, hint.

Love you baby!

XOXOXO

p.s. I'm still need some practice with manual focusing =)

On my forever long list of things "I'll do over the summer" was an ABC book that Max and I would make. I gave him my old, old, old Kodak easyshare to take pictures with, but that didn't pan out too well. The batteries wouldn't stay in, and most of the pictures were too blurry, so 4 months later I decided that he could help search out letters and things that start with "enter letter here" and I would photograph them. I was surprised at how good he was at finding letters!Here's what we found in the backyard today, can you tell what the letters are?

U

X

V

T

O

M

H

E

C

Bonus: What do you see here?
















Need a hint??

"S" is for sea turtle

I'm having too much fun with these techniques! Here are assignments #3 and #4. I tried to use different subjects since most every project is done with photos of Max or Zoe. However, I couldn't resist the last one of Max =)

When Max was 7 months old, he went from using these to using these

no problem, he never even noticed. Zoe on the other hand approached the 7 month mark still nursing 5-7 times a day, and having pumped bottles at grandma's. I had just started back to work and didn't want to put her through the trauma of transitioning to a sippy cup. It should have occured to me then, when she would only drink from this
bottle, that future transitions may be difficult. Or maybe the fact that she virtually starved herself for two days before finally taking that bottle would have tipped me off. However, it didn't, and here we are at 16 months. Oh, but it's a happy day in the S household. My stubborn little girl has finally gone from these

to these
...but only after refusing to use these




Hopefully this latest sippy will never see the sippycup graveyard. Hopefully.