Let's try this again.

As part of my increasingly complicated attempts to step away from Facebook I've decided to resurrect the dead blog! Hazzah! 

We all know how I feel about people in general and Facebook just has so many of them. Which should technically be fine because I don't have to interact with them, but that's the problem. My brain THINKS it should. It thinks that if I don't click like on someone's picture of their baby that person will think that I must hate their baby. (It's highly unlikely I hate their baby but that I am ambivalent towards that baby.. that's possible, but I don't need THEM to know that.) hmmm this isn't off to the best of starts, I don't need my friends thinking that I'm ambivalent about their babies! I meant babies outside of my monkeysphere. I've been trying to whittle the number of people on my facebook down to something closer to my Dunbar Number.. but even if I haven't interacted with Ms. Whosist What's Her Face from middle school for a decade I'll still feel like I'm insulting her if I remove her from my friend's list. What if she wakes up and wonders what she did wrong to be deleted by a near total stranger? (You say that's just something my brain does?... maybe... but also maybe Ms.WWHF's for short brain works the same way as mine?) 

There's only so many people you can mute before your brain is like... hmmm maybe there's a problem here. However this doesn't negate my need to chronicle and share, but perhaps over sharing on a platform that almost no one actually looks it is a little less like oversharing and more just getting it out of my own head? We will see. 

Now to see if I remember any html, css and all that jazz so I can somehow drag my layout out of the early 2010s and make it into something a little less... well... less orange. 

Oh... incase I didn't mention or you've slipped in here from outside my monkeysphere... I'm learning Korean. Expect that to show up from time to time and just brace yourself cause well... it's happening. 어쩔 수 없어요 

Week 4

I wasn't sure what I wanted the theme, if any, to be this week, but when I saw the three of them together I knew exactly the moment I wanted to capture. (Umm... Project 52 + 1?) I love these guys, video game addiction and all.

Week 3

Only got one of my two pictures this week. Some years I'd have just given up at that point, but you know what? I'm nowhere near perfect and I'm going to embrace that: (Project 52 -.05) = acceptable.

Dress Up.

The littlest is full on into his Star Wars phase. 

Week 2

When the littlest lands on his head trying to do a handstand and it's 72 degrees in the middle of January the only solution is Popsicles. 

Project 52 (Take 3) Week 1

Let's try this again shall we? I started this project twice before (First Go) (Second attempt- which lasted a couple weeks longer) but it never really took. Third time's the charm right? One portrait per child per week. 52 weeks ~ 104 pictures. On theme if possible.

Week 1 "Out of Focus"

This boy LOVES playing outside, the tree probably doesn't love him quite as much..

I love that she loves to read. A snuggly blanket, a good book and a rainy evening. Nothing better.

OCD

You know your OCD is showing when you take a picture of your loaded dishwasher because the configuration of dishes fit perfectly. Side note: It almost never happens. We've had this dishwasher since April and every time I load it, I feel like I'm playing tetris against a super computer and I always lose. Today I won.

You know what would have been better? If I took a picture AFTER the dishwasher had run.

Build It!

The total cuteness and terror that is a toddler with a hammer. 

He did so well with the hammer. Like, remarkably, mind blowingly well. 

*why can't I make this upload in HD? this blurry vid is killing me.

He got a bit bored when it came to painting and made Mommy finish. He was happy with his Batman tic tac toe set regardless. 

Princess bear did her entire school house money bank project on her own with just a few assists from Daddy. 

So nice of Home Depot to let Gabriel do a project too since technically the workshops are for ages 5 and up! I'm not sure I'll take him back every month but we'll definitely go every now and then. 

*lack of quality photos because my fingers were COVERED in paint and it was hard to touch my phone.