Friends

Two weeks ago one of my closest friends moved away. The weekend before she left, she and her kids were over for a playdate, and I took some pictures of everyone.

The boys:




The girls:






And what has to be one of my favorite pictures of a little girl:

First trip to the Zoo!

Scooter got to take his first trip to the zoo yesterday. We were originally going to take him to the Scottish festival, but the weather was hot and we decided that we really weren't up for a day spent in the heat an hour from home. So, it was the zoo instead.

Pink Flamingos:


Children's Farms (he LOVED getting to pet the animals!):




Reptile house - yes, his favorite thing was the rattlesnake...




Scooter and Mommy:


So tired:

Pictures

Early morning light is the most amazing thing!


On the swingset:


Mommy and me:


Daddy and me:


Say Cheese!:


Peekaboo with toast:

Insomnia

It's 4:15 am on a Friday morning and I'm wide awake. I woke up to Thumper kicking me like crazy and couldn't get back to sleep again, so here I am, on the computer, surfing the internet. I would love to go back to sleep again, but since the alarm is going off in about half an hour anyway, and I would be up in the next hour or so, I don't see much point. I figure I might as well stay up.

We got Scooter's hair cut yesterday for the first time. No pictures yet, but I'm planning on taking some tonight after work and adding those here if I can manage to get a few good ones. It's a little shorter in the front than we were wanting, but very cute. He has his 18 month appointment at the doctor's today - I'm looking forward to seeing how much he's grown in the last three months! He's almost outgrown all his summer clothes, so I'm guessing he's at least gotten taller, and he feels like he's put some weight on, although as I get more and more pregnant, it could just be something as simple as I'm less able to carry him!

Tomorrow will be fun but busy - we're headed to the Scottish festival and Highland Games about an hour north of here. We took Scooter last year, and even at 6 months he was utterly fascinated by the pipes and drums. This year I'm sure he'll be even more interested, given his love of music. We're talking about taking Doc along with us; I need to double check and make sure they allow pets on leashes to go. I can't wait - they have a stall that sells the most amazing meat pies that remind me of my childhood and I've been craving them since last year's festival!

Garry is working insane hours lately. This week has been decent, but he'll be going into work on Sunday and staying late most of the week next week and probably the week after. The good news is things should really slow down again after the first week of October and stay that way for a while. I'm really hoping that's the case, as it's getting harder to get around and chase Scooter. I honestly can't believe that in 5 weeks or so we'll have another little man around this house - I'm outnumbered in a big way!

This seems to have turned into a ramble, so I think I'm going to wrap it up for now and go find more pictures to add on here. We've taken some lately that I want to show off.

Life with a puppy

So it's been about 4 days since we got Doc, and life has been interesting since then. He's been wonderful; Scooter wakes up in the morning yelling for him now instead of me. I've apparently been replaced in my son's affections by a dog. Getting out of the house yesterday morning to go to work was an interesting experience - Scooter wanted to stay home with Doc, Doc wanted to leave with us... yeah, it was a little stressful. It gave me a nice preview of what it's going to be like to try and get going in the mornings with two kids, at least!

It's still too early in the morning to do much writing and I need to get ready for work before I get Scooter up. I'm hoping to get some more pictures posted this week, though.

Long time no blog

I looked at the calendar today and realized that I haven't added anything new in the last 2 months - oops! Here's a picture of Scooter and his new dog Doc:



And a little video of them together in the car on the way home:



I'll try to be a little more diligent about keeping this updated.

The water baby

I have a new favorite picture of Scooter... it was almost an accidental picture and I'm still working on figuring out how I managed to take it.


And since I can't just post one picture, I thought I'd post a few more of them from our evening in the yard with the water hose! If you can't tell, Scooter loves water!

Photo blog

It's amazing what a few days will do for you. I finally decided that I needed to rediscover my photography, and I'm already finding my groove again! So, I thought a good way to track my progress (and show off my little man!) would be starting a photo blog. And that, in a nutshell, is what this is all about!