Little Angels Rock

Little Angels Rock, originally uploaded by hezro.

I'm a smidge critical of my photography. I don't think I'm supposed to admit this but if I'm being perfectly honestly, I never really like ANY of my pictures. *sigh* For example, today I took a few shots of Little K which I think are just okay. I am suspicious that I might like them better if I could see them minus Heather-the-Photographer filter...but I don't know.  Perhaps I would dislike them even more!  Ha!  

I think the most frustrating thing is that I'm not even sure what I'm unhappy about. I just look at my pictures and think they're not good enough.  The white balance is off, the focus isn't sharp, the color isn't fully saturated, the background is distracting...and so on and so forth.

Little Angels Rock, originally uploaded by hezro.

I've even started thinking my camera is messed up...maybe it *is* messed up.  I should look carefully at my camera settings and just make sure I didn't accidentally change something.  But I have a feeling it's just this weird funk I've been in.


I'm also suspicious that I might be a bit of a perfectionist.  But it needs to stop.  I just want to go back to taking pictures and enjoying it.  I'm getting too caught up worrying about silly stuff that doesn't matter.  The important thing is that I'm recording my adorable little children being their wonderful little selves...right?!

Update twenty minutes later:

So here I was, wallowing in this pit of self-loathing.  And then I saw this video my cousin posted on Facebook and it made me laugh and realize that I am taking myself WAY TOO SERIOUSLY.  She could not have posted this at a more perfect time.  Thank you Hilary for giving me some perspective. Ha! 

Go Bezerk

This weekend my sister-in-law and I were talking about this being little K's favorite book. My sister-in-law said, "Yeah, and then one time she told me 'Daddy goes bezerk'." Of course I realized that what little K really meant was that Daddy goes to work!

 

Kardy-isms

Kardy was just explaining to Dwight that someone could not go to work if they did not have "a work necklace" (a badge).

Yesterday she was asking where Dad was - was he "at work" or "sleeping"?  So I love her take on Dwight's life.  He goes to work at the gym and he comes home and sleeps.  *haha*

TB

We were on the elevator yesterday and Kardynn got excited when she saw the alarm button.  "Taco Bell!"

It's Baaaa-aaack!

We have a little girl in our house who desperately needs to nap. She's taken maybe half a dozen naps since the end of May...and this is a VERY BAD THING. For a while I thought maybe she was just giving up naps early and while that sucked for me, such is life.  But it has become increasingly apparent that she NEEDS to nap. She gets so grumpy.

The problem started when she stopped sucking her thumb in May.  Since then it's been nearly impossible to get her to sleep during the day. At first it seemed like she was okay.  But she's not.  So last month I really started my campaign to get her back to napping.  I tried laying with her (which in reality was pretty much me trying to be a straight jacket for her because she was not going down without a fight). That was no fun and it didn't work anyway.  Well, it worked once when she finally wore herself out but the rest of the times she wore me out first.  I tried bribery. That didn't work. I tried lulling her to sleep in the car...and in the stroller. None of that worked. So now I'm trying the only other thing I could think of. Eight months after having taken it down, the crib is back. *fingers crossed*

Crib, originally uploaded by hezro.

Band-Aid

So much for this new box of band-aids...

Rocks

Rocks, originally uploaded by hezro.

K told me she wanted to play rocks.  Rocks?! What is she talking about?

"Oh! You want to play with the blocks!"

Keep on Rollin'

I've been forgetting to mention that Kard is rolling like a fiend this week. I put her on her back and immediately she's flipped onto her tummy. She can cover small distances that way.