Wednesday, August 27, 2008

First "Major" Injury

I knew it was bound to happen, but Jack had his first "major" injury. By major, I mean his first injury that actually bled. It could have been MUCH worse. Thank heaven it wasn't. Oh, and this happened about a month ago, but I'm just now getting around to posting it.

This summer we spent pretty much every day at Seven Peaks so that we didn't die in our non-air conditioned apartment. One afternoon Jack was running from the pool to one of the kiddie slides and all of the sudden stopped in his tracks and started crying. I hurried over to him to see what was wrong and he pointed to his foot. Sure enough right under his little foot was a fragment of tile from the side of the pool. Jack had stepped on it at just the right angle that it sliced the bottom of his foot open. It was bleeding quite badly so I scooped him up and hustled him over to first aid. As I was half-jogging/half-speed walking to first aid the blood from Jacks foot was dripping off his toes and down my leg. Every one we walked past would say, "OH! Bleeding child! Watch out!" I thought it was kind of humorous.

Anyway, in the end Jack didn't end up needing stitches. The tile had sliced more along the surface of the skin (you know when you get a cut where basically you have a big flap of skin hanging) as opposed to deep into the skin. Jack was either really frightened by the whole ordeal or he has a seriously low pain tolerance because he cried, screamed and whined most of the rest of that day. Poor kid.


Thursday, August 21, 2008

Down And Out

Have I ever told you that I despise our digital camera? Seriously, it is the biggest hunk-o-junk ever! As a result, I am currently a lame blogger because I get so frustrated with my camera I don't even attempt to take pictures of anything.

So, I'm putting a request out there. I know many of you are better-than-decent photographers and probably have some camera preferences. I'd love to hear your suggestions on a nice camera. I'd actually really like to be able to do things like play with lenses and such, but for now we may just have to start with the camera. Are there any cameras out there I can sort of build up as I go (aka as we get more money)? Oh, and we're looking at probably a $400-$500 limit. We can get something decent for that price, right?

I know, I could probably research all of this information on the internet, but I figured if I've got friends sitting out there with this knowledge already in their heads it sure would save me a lot of web searching. Ahh yes, and any suggestions on where to buy said camera would also be greatly appreciated. Am I asking too much?

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Orange Julius

For some reason I had forgotten about the goodness of a nice, cold Orange Julius. Last night we made some for dessert after our dinner and, as can probably be imagined, Jack was a huge fan. We had to catch some shots of him slurping up the OJ goodness. Oh, and you may also notice a piece of leftover broccoli on his chin. Sick.