Hipstamatic at the Gymboree!

Hipstamatic

I am loving my Hipstamatic camera app on my iPod Touch. It is so much fun. Its meant to recreate the effects of the cameras of my childhood. Grainy. Weird light effects. Fuzzy. You can choose all sorts of lenses and films. It makes me smile.

Permision Granted

We got some FANTASTIC news yesterday. Connor has been awarded the lead role of the Lion in his school's second grade musical. He'll be playing Maliki--an angry, fierce big cat. I have to make him a "simple" costume. That's frightening. But, I'll figure it out.

Congrats, Connor!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I celebrated my first Valentines Day with my first meatball and my first cupcake! The meatball left me looking like a saucy Phantom of the Opera. The cupcake didn't last long. In fact, neither of them did!

He Crawls

Palmer started crawling about 10 days ago. Most of the video I have from those first few days is bumpy and out of focus so I tried to get a decent one this morning. And try as I might to have it just be of Palmer, Connor suddenly appeared. Look at him go!!

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

Today was Cub Scout Pinewood Derby Day. We've been working on the car for about the past week. We should have started sooner. There was a fair amount of consternation because Boy Scouts is supposed to be my activity with Connor, yet with work and the baby, Bob had to help a bit more than he anticipated. But, in the end, everyone had fun. Considering that it required substantial investment in blocks, axles, wheels, weights, glue, sandpaper, paint, a new postal scale, and the aforementioned marital negotiations, it seems sad that it was all over in one hour. Here's the car. We're not woodworkers so it looks like a blue doorstop with wheels. Here's our scout at the derby. He loved cheering the countdown. Three. Two. One!! And they're flying down the track! Here we are. About to come in third in this heat. And here's the final standings. Connor finished 8th. Not bad for a first run at it. He got a little sad at one point, but pulled it together. The Wolf scout winner, Drew Petitt, also had, in my opinion, a really cool car. It was black and green and had a dragon head and tail. Drew's dad told me the other night that they had no hope because he wasn't taking it too seriously and they were having fun and with those rubber parts on it it wouldn't go very fast. Then, they smashed the competition. Awesome!

My First Mouse

There we have it. The first falling injury of what promises to be a toddler-hood full of scrapes and tumbles. Palmer wants desperately to stand. If you hold his hands, he can stand himself up. If you lean him against something, he can stay up. For awhile. Last night he got himself standing by the coffee table and just as Daddy went to rescue him, he lost his balance and banged his right eyebrow/forehead on the table top. There wasn't much crying. It looked worse than he seemed to be aware of.