18 Months | 3.5 Years

A few photos, to get caught up.

Earlier tonight:

Earlier this afternoon:

Yesterday:

Over the Summer:

Back in May, with his good friend, at her birthday party:

3.5 Years: Imagination

"Daddy, we need a very tall ladder so we can go up to the moon and stars at night. We can climb up and have adventures in space, every night. Would that be good?"

17 Months | 2.5 Years: Scooter

Google Plus Killed the Photos

Looks like I've fallen victim to a known danger of Google+. When I started my G+ account, all my Blogger photos (Blogger is owned by Google) were automatically displayed (not imported, as I and many other assumed). So when I deleted those albums, I permanently deleted all existing photos out of this blog.

You'd think Google would have learned their lesson about automatically grabbing stuff between properties when they had all that flack from the launch of Buzz. Apparently not.

I'm exploring options, but unfortunately I don't have a lot of local backups of blog photos in context, and I'm uncertain how I'll ever be able to figure out which photos belong where. Will try to piece it back together, but not sure how successful I will be.

Depression.

Update: Have a strategy for replacing from archives, but it is slow and tedious. Will take some time.

3.5 Years: Cousins

August with his cousin.

1.5 years ago:


Earlier this week:

15 Months | 3.5 Years: Hawaii Pictures

14 Months | 3.5 Years: Daddy Weekend

Believe it or not, Mary has never spent a night away from her baby/ies. Until now.

So it's two good full days and one night with Daddy only; first time ever. So far we're mostly through day-one, absolutely no problems. Lela has grown up quite a bit in the past few months, and I don't think she's as desperately attached to Mommy as she once was. It wasn't too long ago that Mary couldn't go have dinner with a few friends without exposing me to a brutal, sustained 20, or 30, or 45 minute screaming session, complete with vomit. None of that today, and we're nearly at 12 hours!

Tonight will be the real test. She doesn't really fall asleep without Mommy, especially in the middle of the night when/if she wakes up. So... I've had a relatively easy go of it with Lela 'til now!

I don't know, though... perhaps Mommy wouldn't have allowed Lela to drive the self-propelled kiddy cars around the playground this afternoon:

I'm sure it was fine, they only have a top speed of like 10-15 MPH.

August is cuter than ever. He thinks he can add a 'y' to anything, to create a new word describing his wants/needs. So, just as he'd be hungry when he wants food, and thirsty when he wants drink, he might now be basebally when he wants to play baseball.

"I'm very watchy" if he wants to watch TV. Or "iPaddy". Today I got "I'm not very walky, I'm very pick-uppy".

Onward.