Apa and Blaise

Apa and Blaise enjoyed their time together. Here they are one morning looking for bunnies in the backyard and listening for cardinals.

Feeling at Home

Blaise and Apa have a fun game of building towers and knocking them down.  It is great fun.

First Day at Gma's and Apa's

It's hard to remember exactly what we did so long ago (6 weeks is a long time when you travel with two kids!), but I think we spent the first day relaxing, playing with our new toys and saying hi to Grandma Sco.

These pictures were taken with my ISO up too high, hence the noise :(

Scary Blaise

The night before my Dad left Blaise had a good time "scaring" him before going to bed.

A Shelving We Will Go

Those of you who have known me long enough might remember the shelves in my bedroom in my parents' house.  My Dad built the shelves when I was quite small and I enjoyed them throughout my childhood.  Since my parents were going to be visiting for a chunk of time, we asked my Dad to build some shelves for Blaise.  Just before Christmas Jan and my Dad spent an afternoon planning and measuring and buying wood and drilling and re-measuring and admiring.  Blaise had a great time moving pieces of wood around, hammering the work-in-progress and just helping in general.

On a photography note, I have been disturbed by the red tones in the pictures I've taken in the evenings.  I'd read something about white balance, but didn't really understand what that meant so I ignored it.  After looking at pictures from this evening, Jan mentioned the white balance.  It took me less than five minutes to google and change the setting on my camera.  Not trying to give the impression I actually understand the whole concept now, but there is a definite improvement in the coloring with the auto white balance setting.  Next step is figuring out how to set it manually, for which I'll need a grey card.  Recommendations, anyone?

Witness red toned pictures:

Blaise hammered Daddy on the head!

Witness the not so red toned pictures (admittedly taken the next morning):

Finished product taken with my point and shoot because I don't have a wide enough lens on the DSLR

Thanks for the shelves, Grandpa!  Blaise loves them! (and so do we!)

Quality Time