You’ve probably noticed that we like to take pictures with our dSLR.

We have an older entry level Canon Rebel Xsi. We have it paired with a 4GB eye.fi card, which is an SD memory card with a tiny wifi transmitter. This means that whenever we take a photo with our dSLR, it is automatically uploaded first to my PC, and then to THE CLOUD™ via Picasaweb online storage.

So film is truly free – yes, we could fill our 4 GB card, but since photos taken at home are uploaded in almost real time, this is hardly ever an issue. Plus, it takes care of the backup situation for us by putting it on my PC, where it gets backed up (also automatically) onto an external USB hard drive. And then, as indicated, THE CLOUD™!!!!

Often times we like to take pictures at a very rapid rate, and our little pansy pop-up flash struggles to keep up. I’ve been reading about the bigger, battery op flashes – and while you can spend up to $500 on a flash – something more reasonable, like this one here, would be something nice to have.

Potentially, we could take better pictures, faster!

I need to start using this thing again. Google+ has been neat, but it’s not for everybody, and Anna doesn’t really have a way to share facespace pictures. I don’t think. And I’m still steadfastly refusing to join facespace given things like this.

Mostly I need to capture things I’m thinking. I was really good about that in the before times. Now I keep forgetting stuff that I’m pretty sure I don’t want to forget.

Right now I want to remember Owen’s rocket jammies and how excited he is about them. They have stars on them that glow in the dark.

The evening routine is the same, but now when I turn out the light he lifts up his blankets and excitedly exclaims “HERE THEY COME!” as the stars start to glow. He’s actually somewhat excited for lights out! This is the kind of magic I want to remember. Glow in the dark stars on his jammies are currently the coolest thing in the entire world to him right now.

Lots of stuff has happened since the beach. Namely, family life.

Some milestones we may have missed:

8 months old!

From 2011-11-12 (by Eye-Fi)

Lily has been nothing short of amazing. She’s doing all the things she’s supposed to do and is very close to rearing up on her hands and knees and starting to crawl. She’s kind of crawling right now, only backwards. She has no difficulty getting to where she wants to be, it’s just … unorthodox. For adults and toddlers, anyway.

She likes to eat.

From 2011-10-18 (by Eye-Fi)

Owen is learning to play the digiridoo:

From 2011-10-14 (by Eye-Fi)

Halloween went well. Owen wanted to go trick or treating every night from 1 November to about 7 November until he finally realized it was really more of a “once a year” thing. One day I look forward to telling him stories of how entertained he was by two of his favorite things – doorbells and candy.

From 2011-10-31 (by Eye-Fi)

I never get tired of this picture.

From 2011-09-26 (by Eye-Fi)

And Lily also was seven months:

From 2011-10-12 (by Eye-Fi)

OK, all the photos I’ve taken from the beach are here for consumption:

2011-07-24 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-07-25 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-07-26 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-07-27 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-07-28 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-07-29 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-07-30 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-07-31 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-08-02 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-08-03 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-08-04 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-08-05 (by Eye-Fi)

2011-08-06 (by Eye-Fi)

If you’re on the googlebook, you’ve probably seen a few of these already.

Thanks nana and papa!

We took the three month picture yesterday, when Anna reminded me I never posted the two month picture.

And

And, just so that Kenny isn’t totally wrong that my blog has become nothing but pictures of Owen – it’s hard to play games on my phone these days:

It appears to be getting better. Lily has slept through a couple of nights – and by “slept through” I mean we’ve gotten a window between 20:15 and 03:15. You don’t realize how much you need that contiguous sleep until you’ve gone without it for a few months. Yesterday was probably her most “talky” day – she was sassing and talking at me, smiling, making faces. Good times.

Owen must be growing or something, because he’s been taking four plus hour naps, in addition to playing at full speed whenever he’s awake. We were at a birthday party the other day, and he played so hard that when I went to pick him up and tell him it was time to go, I expected an epic meltdown. Instead, he was too tired to fuss.

It was a nice three day weekend, even if I can’t really remember what it is that we did.

Everything is about eggs the past few days. More eggs. Eggs, please. Find eggs.

And Lily? Here she is with Auntie Jen. She didn’t like the hat either. For reference:

For the record, this is the face she makes when pooping:

Everybody’s gone. No grandparents, no aunts, no uncles. That gives me some time to catch up on the interblog.

She’s filling out nicely.

We’ll see how he does with no distraction and an actual deficit of attention. He puts on these glasses and runs around yelling “COOL DUDE”.

Chop-chop is smitten.

Owen and Uncle Matt got along swimmingly. Owen was very sad to see him go.

Initially, I didn’t want this stupid lamb swing. I guess you can say it’s paid off.