May 18, 2006

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear Becky,
Happy birthday to you!

7:05 Drop off

7:20 Discover Becky forgot the bjorn. Ahhhhhhh! I pulled out an old sling (Becky, do you have the blue one still?) but Ariel didn't like it as much.

8:00 Uncle Jeremy fed Ariel a bottle. She fell asleep on him. Awwwww.

8:40 Commence Fabulous Plan™ - Crissy came over with Gavin, and we walked him to preschool. We moved Ariel from Jeremy's lap to the stroller and she stayed asleep, at least for 2 minutes:



9:05 Drop Gavin off at preschool. And since Gavin's school is right by Starbucks, it was just a given that we would go there too. We didn't want Ariel to feel left out:



9:45 Crissy wanted to look at photography magazines at Safeway, but Ariel had other plans. She was really tired, I finally got her calmed down in the sling and we started walking home. While walking, I explained to Crissy a neat project I've done before - taking pictures of objects that look like letters, then making collages to spell things like names. Crissy thought that was pretty cool, and pretty soon we were looking for letters all over the place. We found a few, like this "k":



(Here's one I did last year:)




10:40 Looking for letters had really slowed down our walking, so we decided to look for more letters while we turned around and walked back to Gavin's preschool to pick him up.

11:20 Ariel had another bottle while we waited for Gavin.

11:40 Walk back home.

12:10 Get home - I made lunch while Crissy tried to get Ariel down for a nap (Adam had mac and cheese, Gavin had PB&J and we had triscuits with cheese.)

12:25 I finished putting Ariel down (Crissy tries, she really does).

12:40 I picked up Alex from school while Crissy held down the fort. Crissy made the mistake of playing with my camera when I was gone. When I came back, she made a comment about her "piece of crap" very cool point and shoot. Have I mentioned Crissy really wants a camera like mine now?

1:20 I got back with Alex, we let the boys play while we took more pictures, then made a collage spelling Crissy's brother's last name for his birthday. It's pretty cool, but I'm not going to put his last name on the blog.

2:20 Becky showed up. Ariel was still sleeping, so I amused Becky with my image processing and graphic design skills. Maybe amused is not the right word... bored?

2:50 Becky couldn't take it anymore, so she went and woke up Ariel. We had another photo shoot. Here's the collage I came up with (using a Shabby Princess kit, Splendid) :



Becky, I'll get your other picture choices up on flickr...

7:00 Becky - your other pictures are here (remember, you don't have to order ALL of them):