Recently many camera apps for the iPhone/iTouch have been free and I downloaded a bunch to try out. I’m having a great time snapping pictures, using different filters and in general having a good time using these apps. The only problem I’ve come across is my memory, which app did I use for which picture. Apps used: CameraBag, Camera!, Infinicam, Pro HDR, and of course Instagram. ;~)
* I Can’t Believe You Are Doing This
I am not certain, but I think it was when Baby Brother was going on two, Santa delivered a swing set and put it together in our upstairs living room. Sorry to say no photos of that event can be found. Trying to keep four excited kids from turning over the swing set Christmas morning was almost as impossible as keeping them off of it.
This was the Christmas everything moved at a faster pace. Baby Brother skipped walking and headed into the “full speed ahead” run, all of the blurry pictures testify to that.
Well maybe the photographer had something to do with it too. :~/
Here is Baby Brother with one of his most favorite people, Great-great-great-great-great—-graaaannndddmmmaaaaaa. I still remember her telling him over and over, “I’m old, but I’m not that old.”
My scanner problems lead serendipitously to child number four being added to the mix today, how appropriate is that!
This Christmas, 1981, child four was not walking yet, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. We could still catch him before he tore into the packages. It didn’t matter who the package was for, if he liked the paper he was attacking the package.
This was the first Christmas child three was a Big Sister. I’m not sure how well she liked her new position at this time, but it became more appealing as time pasted.
There was a year, I don’t remember the exact one, Santa(Dad) decided to build a sturdy rocking horse for Nolan to replace my old hobby horse that could not hold up to the onslaught of highly active young kids.
And of course later there was the mini horse for the baby doll. Later Baby Doll did ride the bigger horse when her brother didn’t chase her off of it.
The rocking horse took a beating from many small children and Grandpa Don had to make some repairs and then more little kids played hard on it and it was put out to pasture. Recently Nolan revamped and revised the horse and even more little children are playing ride ‘um cowboy with Santa(Dad)’s horsey.
Christmastime had changed again, little brother was now also Big Brother and Big Sister was having the best time ever with her own “live” baby doll. Said “Baby Doll” did not always agree with that premise and soon let her feelings be known. Big Brother learned at this early stage to take care of Baby Sister much to the chagrin of some high school Lotharios later in her life.
Child number one spent two blissful Christmases as the only grandchild on both sides of the family. There would not be a third, along came number two child and Christmas became a shared event. Child one moved into her new role of Big Sister, who shared her knowledge of all things Christmas with her little brother.
Although she could not “ninja” wrapped gifts at the time, she did teach her little brother the educated “shake-flip” maneuver that indicated a toy or clothing in the box. And of course there is famous “Gift Package Shuffle” where all presents for Big Sister or little brother ended up all together in a neat little pile.
Our first Christmas with child number one. She arrived in our lives on the 12th day of Christmas and even though she was not a “drummer” there were times when she sounded like 12 drummers drumming.
Santa left some great presents for this good little girl, well at the time they were great presents to her.
Little did she know that she would have a little drummer of her own one day.
