day 35: Ben thought that the last picture I posted of myself looked really sad. I’m not sad. I was just tired. In any case I thought maybe since it’s late and I don’t have anything better to take a picture of I should just take another (less sad) picture of myself. I also never showed off my new fab haircut that I got this weekend. I love having short hair!

day 34: what a week for the babies, first a visit from grandma and then a visit from grandpa in the same week?! Fabulous 🙂 We all went out to a nice lunch in Marina del Rey where the babies enjoyed (very much so) the view of the marina and of course the dogs walking by. Amelia was showing something very important to grandpa I’m sure!

day 33: we just finished watching the season premiere of Lost. It was very long. Now it’s late. And I’m tired. So I’m going to go to bed. Oh, yeah, and I’m also confused.

day 32: today my mom came to visit and she wanted to take the babies somewhere fun. I’ve been meaning to take them to the aquarium so that’s what we decided to do. I have this debate with myself every day about whether or not the photo of the day is going to be the most technically perfect and impressive to photography enthusiasts OR if it’s going to be the one that most completely shows what I DID that day. What I always come back to is that this is sort of a daily journal, and at the end of the year when I make it into a book I’m really going to want to look at it to remember what that year of my life was like, not which were the best pictures I took… SO… without further ado… here is a slightly underexposed picture of Amelia looking at some fish. I love the expression on her face

day 31: today I experienced a bit of deja vu… remember this post about a Korean first birthday party? well that little lady is the big sister to this little guy. And today was his first birthday. And since that old post was from 2007 that would make the little lady in that photo 3 years old! Can you believe it?! Man, oh man, time does fly! The little man’s party was just as lively and wonderful as his sister’s. And of course he was just as cute!

day 30: this morning I went and donated blood. I brought my camera with me to take a picture of something (I don’t really know what I was going to take a picture of… certainly not the bag of blood… maybe the outside of the building?) but it turned into such a debacle (two hours!) that I forgot and just went home afterward (slightly grumpy but at least I was successful). Luckily for me, when we went out in the afternoon for our daily sortie Amelia decided to be extra cute and volunteered to show off just how much she LOVES muffins for my camera and all of my photo-rific viewers 🙂

day 29: I am happy to report that today was indeed a much better day. There was no pooping in the house (unless you count the babies, but that was only in their diapers and to be expected). We went out near the end of the day to get some of the extra links taken out of my watch and the afternoon sunlight was just gorgeous. Amelia was really enjoying it. Paul was too, but he was too busy studying the cars in the parking lot to smile for a photo.

day 28: this picture is bad and I know it. So rest easy, you don’t have to sit there wondering if my judgment is getting iffy. It’s just been a rough day. It’s nearing 11pm and I am really honestly just too tired to come up with something better. I really hope that my dog does not decide that he needs to poop in the house (twice in one day) two days in a row. I have no idea where he got the idea that it was ok. If he does it again I’ll be sure to direct you all to the craigslist ad where I post our dog for sale. He is pretty cute and you might want to buy him.

day 26: yesterday my sweet lovely babies turned 16 months old. We have a tradition of taking one a photo of them on their birthday each and every month in this same chair. The are getting so big! (sniff, sniff)

day 26: I got a beautiful watch from Ben for Christmas. He really wanted to get it engraved but didn’t have time to do it before he gave it to me. It was actually a little too big as well and we figured that as long as we were taking it in to get some links taken out we should get it engraved at the same time. Which would have been a good idea, except for some reason the engraving seriously discolored the face of the watch that we had engraved (big time boo to that). Luckily the store took the watch back so I could get a new one. We had to order it since they don’t sell it in the store anymore and my new one came today. Almost the same as the original… just a little sparklier 🙂 I love it!