the lost blog

Dude. Does this ever happen to you: Suddenly my computer kicks me off line. See ya to whatever I was working on. Like yest.'s blog. Bye bye, now. It was a good one too. Brilliant, in fact. You will just have to take my word for it. I am sure I will never recapture the poetry that it was. Alas. Alack. Ok - well, actually - I think it was something like this: (if you are expecting real poetry you are gonna be disappointed;) Just in case you didn't see this at 2 peas - here ya go. If you already saw this - then skip to the next paragraph. If you didn't - keep reading. Really, I will be able to tell if you don't. So I have 3 boys. 2 have birthdays the same week in June. One does not. Alex is in the "does not" group. The group of 1. It is hard enough to be in the middle....and then to be left out in June. Well, you just have to know Alex to truly understand how sad this makes him EVERY year. So I did lo about him on not his birthday. I think I will do one every year about this. I like to do serial picture taking. (OK - I mean like taking the same pics over and over again - not like photo shoots of Cheerios). (Ok, every one together now? We are walking, walking, stay with the group.) So, taking pics in a series. I like doing that. We took pics of David at 2 weeks with a Buzz Lightyear toy. He was only 4.5 lbs when he was born. Tiny. I kept that Buzz. We have pics of him and his brothers with this same, one handed and wingless Buzz. (He has seen some amazing battles. Oh, the stories he could tell). We used to take pics of them and Buzz on their birthdays. And then I forgot a few times. I was bummed at first and then I let it go. I realized I was really trying to capture their size each time and they really didn't grow THAT much between June and August....so just take the pic in August. When we were dating, we were on our way to Furman's Formal dance (so sure they called it something better than that). My roomie was taking a picture for us. Suddenly, JD just dips me. Maggie got the picture. So now, we just take random dip pics. We have been married 11 years. We have them of us in Mexico, at our wedding, on our 5th anniversary, dressed up as Han and Leia (but really - doesn't everyone have a pic like that?). Some are better than others. My hair looks great in the 5 year ann. pic. They used all be framed and on our bedroom wall at the other house...3 years ago. I am not sure what I am going to do with them now - but I am going to keep taking them. We have a series of pics of the boys in some overalls that belonged to JD as a baby. Sadly - the overalls are ugly. But I took each kid to have their pics taken when they fit into them. I like pics in a series. BUT, like I said, once I let go of my NEED to have them taken on just the right day - I enjoy them more. Kinda like marking on the door frame how tall the kids are. Here are two more pics - David at 2 weeks with Buzz and Woody (when Buzz still had both hands). And then David at 5 (1 week after Max was born) with Buzz. Have a happy day and just know that this entry was perfect and spell checked yest. kelli