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   I got a digital SLR!  It is an Olympus E-500 and it’s sooo nice.  I can’t believe how much I’ve had to compensate for shutter lag, slow auto focus, and slow file writing with my C-2100 (I did love that camera though).  I think I’ll be able to get better people pictures with it’s […]

  E2 made a microphone out of Tinkertoys in order to interview everyone on what their favorite patriotic color was: red, white, or blue.  My brother-in-law played along very well, and expounded on the subject quite nicely.

 

  We love this city.  There are so many places you can be standing in the middle of it, surrounded by trees and nature, and not even realize you’re in the middle of a metropolitan area of 2 million people.

  We had an exciting storm here, and I don’t know if it was the barometric pressure or what, but the kids were bouncing off of the walls.  After the rain came down in sheets, it started hailing and the kids wanted to go out in it.  E1 and E2 didn’t stay out- after getting […]

  E4 is finally old enough to ride on my back in the Ergo.  It’s so nice and I can get so much more done.  She looks a bit apathetic about it in the picture because she was getting sleepy, but she really does seem to love it.

  It was a good day.  We went out to lunch at the Old Spaghetti Factory, where for the first time in years (ever?) the wait staff sang to me and I got a free dessert, since E2 decided to share with them that it was my birthday.  I hadn’t thought of telling him not to say […]

  Since we were all together, we celebrated my and my mother-in-law’s birthdays on Saturday with brownies and oatmeal cookies.  My in-laws gave me a dozen gorgeous long stem roses.

 E2 has a toy he likes to play with at his grandparents’ house.  It’s an old happy-meal-type toy that he calls “party ball” and puts inside small things he finds.  I think right now it has a rubber band and super ball.

 We love books!