Day 85, 4-29-10

Playing around with my nifty-fifty lens today. I did pretty well with my focus shooting wide open!

Then I went back and took and old picture and played with it in Photoshop. I did three different one-click ways to change a color photo to a black and white one. I am surprised at how different they turned out. I did not do any additional editing other than the one click.

First: Image, mode, grayscale

Second: Enhance, Adjust Color, Remove Color

Third: Gradient map

Day 84, 4-28-10

Day 83, 4-27-10

Had to get Chuck's hair cut again today. He cried, but not the whole time, which was a welcome change. Between the new toy from Walgreens and Thomas playing on the VCR, he had moments of being distracted.

For comparison....let's remember what he looked like a couple of weeks ago...

Day 82, 4-26-10

Another trip to the zoo. Another carousel ride. He was much less serious this time!

We also rode the train all the way around. I think he enjoyed it! Although I am not sure he was enjoying me attempting to get a picture of the two of us!

Day 81, 4-25-10

I totally see my dad in his face here.

Day 80, 4-24-10

Chuck has discovered the joys of climbing on his bins. How long til he discovers the agony of falling off one?

Lauren builds a bigger tower than Chuck can...and Chuck is impressed!

Day 79, 4-23-10

Didn't touch my real camera today. But I did take a picture with my iPhone while we were out for the evening, sans children.

Day 78, 4-22-10

My poor baby wasn't feeling too well....

Day 77, 4-21-10

I have a few thoughts when I see this picture....

1) Really, I need to put my kid to bed sooner! He is "playing" here.

2) I SWEAR I put clothes on him every day!!!

3) Man has he gotten TALL!

Day 76, 4-20-10

Today was just a beautiful spring day. So Chuck and I went to visit Marc working at the zoo. Chuck had been on the carousel before, but never on an animal that moves up and down. He was a VERY serious carousel rider today.

Day 75, 4-19-10

Chuck's hair is getting a little long. After swim class it was a little out of control. So instead of fighting it, I helped it!

Day 74, 4-18-10

It started so innocently.

But quickly progressed to this:

Before he got all wet, he got some Daddy snuggles.

Day 73, 4-17-10

I swear, I really do put a full set of clothes on my kid most of the time!!! It just seems that the camera only comes out when he is half naked!

Day 72, 4-16-10

We stopped at a rest stop with a pretty bridge and let Chuck run around a little.

Day 71, 4-15-10

First game at Wrigley!

I just love his eyelashes.

Day 70, 4-14-10

At least the bib stayed clean.

Day 69, 4-13-10

Chuck likes to play fetch. My dog will not fetch a ball, but my son loves to. So wrong.

This is Chuck saying one of his new words, "Ball."

Day 68, 4-12-10

OPENING DAY!!!

Day 67, 4-11-10

Day 66, 4-10-10

Credit for today's picture goes to my husband...he took this great shot.

Day 65, 4-9-10

Here is a pic of Chuck stacking 11 blocks. He managed to get to 12 today before the tower crumbled!!

Playing with little blocks in his crib:

This is a half-time picture of my daughter's lacrosse team's goalie. They were down 10-1 at this point. It was NOT her fault, but she was clearly crushed.

Day 64, 4-8-10

Chuck and I went to L's lacrosse game at Central today. It was one of those crazy spring days that when the wind was blowing, it was freezing. When the wind stopped, it was sunny and HOT. It was a great game that North WON! YAY!

Random challenge

On the last leg of our walk home today, I stopped every 50 steps and made myself take a picture. Here are the results.