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Monthly Archives: March 2009

action shots

03.28.09 Posted in personal

I post a new photo of Lyle every day–taken that day–on my photoblog, CuriousLyle. I’ve never missed a day yet since he was born. A lot of people ask me how I manage to take a photo every single day. The answer is that I take my camera almost everywhere with me. I take it to fun stuff, like the children’s museum, playdates, walks around the block, but I also take it other places. I take it to the grocery store. (And as an aside, I get a lot of comments on the camera in grocery stores.) I take it to Target. I take it when I drive our glass recycling to the drop-off center.

Last month my mom came down to visit for a couple days over my birthday. She got a couple pictures of me in front of our house.

And here are the photos that I was shooting at the time.

foggy morning

03.19.09 Posted in personal

I have been dealing with a sick and VERY cranky two-year-old for the past few days, but luckily he’s over it now and he’s back to his happy self and I feel a little less crazy. Oy.

We have had some beautiful fog in my neighborhood the past few mornings. This morning after I dropped the (cheerful, happy, perky) kid off at preschool, I stopped to take some photos along the bayou that runs near our house. The bayou divides a fairly busy road. There are bike paths on either side of it, and a large median with lots of trees. Look how pretty it is.

daphne blue

03.11.09 Posted in newborn

Daphne Blue is the newest baby in this family of girls. (And how cool is her name????) She slept peacefully most of the time I was there, let me move her and position her however I wanted without a peep, and did not cry once. She woke up a couple times and just calmly opened her eyes and took everything in, then closed them again and let me keep doing my thing. Here she is at four days old.

boston trip

03.09.09 Posted in personal, travel

Our trip to Boston was a very quick two days. Our Sunday morning flights didn’t pan out quite the way they were supposed to (one was canceled) and we couldn’t get rebooked until the next evening. So, we flew up on Monday, arriving around midnight. We flew back home Thursday, leaving around noon, so we could have had time to get up and do something early that morning, but we didn’t. We just hung out at the hotel. Tuesday and Wednesday we were out on the town having fun. Jeff was at a conference during the day, so Lyle and I were on our own most of the time. It was cold, and there was a lot of snow and slush on the ground, and Lyle didn’t like any of that one bit. But I think he had fun anyway.

This was my first trip back there since I moved away 3.5 years ago. It was fun to go back to the familiar places.

One of the places we went there was the Children’s Museum, which featured this awesome three-story climbing structure made up of a series of ramps. Adults were allowed to climb on it, too! This thing was seriously the highlight of my trip.

And now I’m back in Houston with 80-degree weather and no pretense of winter anywhere. I had to turn on my air conditioner today because it was so hot and stuffy in here and the ceiling fans weren’t helping enough. And it’s only March!