• artsy fartsy,  Bug,  movies,  Super Dad

    Cameras Should Be Black

    Everybody knows that Toby is a fancy schmancy photographer, right? So it’s fitting that I should buy* Baby Bug a toy camera. But when I brought this little blue gigham number home and showed it to Toby, he said that Baby Bug wouldn’t like it because it wasn’t black like Daddy’s.

    So I did what I do with anything I don’t like the color of. I pulled out the Sharpie and started coloring.

    But the cool part of this story is that while I was coloring (with the foul smelling marker and playing many many trick-the-baby games to keep her from my foul smelling marker), Toby made this really cool movie of us. (3.5 megs, quicktime. It’s a whopper but really good quality. You Tube version here.)

    He’s such a super dad.

    *This purchase was made way before the new “screwing-down-the-screws budget” we have recently adopted. No more silly stuffed toys will be bought for a very long time.

  • Bug,  movies,  Slow News Day,  Tis the Season

    sunny days

    You know things are going good when you have nothing else to talk about but the weather. Either that or I just don’t really feel like talking about those deep dark secrets right now. But really, things are going great. The weather too.

    It’s terribly unnerving to have a toddler who’s walking. Everywhere I look, there she is. Out of the corner of my eye I see a little person propelling in strange directions she never went before. Just like you all said, she’s finding all kinds of new things to get into. Like this for example. (sorry firewall guys, another youtube movie)

    I’d also like to point out that Baby Bug did not inherit my short waist. Looks like she’s taking after her dad in the pants department. (And yes, her shorts are too big.)