Alright. I promised I would get off my rear and post my “One Day” project the day after my last post. Well….it’s not the day after. surprise surprise. But here it is.
Please go visit Sweet Cameron for the rundown on the project. She has a link to someone else who started it, but I think she’s got the full deal in her post. Plus pictures if you go to her other posts. And her book is FABULOUS. My book is not nearly as great as hers, though I LOVE my book because it’s a bunch of stuff that I would never think to photograph under “normal” circumstances (who takes a picture of their favorite cereal at the time?!?!) Or I always just KNOW I’m going to remember what my child’s favorite toy is at the time. Or my child’s favorite book. Or my child’s favorite whatever. I remember a few but I always find it fun when a picture reminds me of something that I had forgotten. Love everyday moments. One change I made to the original project…I will not participate on the 25th of every month. If it’s a work day for me, I can’t have a camera so the book would just have pictures of me getting up and going to bed. So my project will be to take pictures AROUND the 25th of every month on a day I can have my camera.
I had a REALLY hard time scanning this project. There was MUCH swearing. It wouldn’t fit on the scanner. I couldn’t close the scanner. And there’s a lot A LOT going on in the book. True to form a lot of flips/flaps and extras. Hard to show in still lifes. I should video these. But I won’t.
In any case, I started to figure that if the pictures weren’t going to be good I should try to be as obnoxious with them as I possibly could. If you can’t make it good, embrace badness.
So here they are. Obnoxious red arrows and all!
Alright, first flap/fold out thing is held with a phototurn. I can see problems are going to arise with months May-March since I will be putting gromits through previous pages that are already done. Will have to ponder new and unique ways to do flaps that will not fall apart… Just wrote on the inside of this book since the photos were too crammed together to journal each one individually. Although they look odd to most, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the two little charms I made out of his two favorite lego people. Those silly people go back and forth everywhere with us.
Flap on right — Cameron shows this one way better. My pages are just way too busy I think?
Booklet held together with a red snap (isn’t it delicious?!?!)
Alright! April’s done. May’s pictures are taken. Just need to print/glue them in. I’ll post when it’s done. Don’t hold your breath!
We went picking strawberries on Friday to bring to my mum’s. Only they weren’t picking so we just bought a couple containers…
…which Oliver finished off before we got to my mum’s…
Okay, so he didn’t finish them both off, but one half a container. Picked the strawberries out, ate them off their hats, then stuck the hats back in the container. Nice. The picture above kills me. Doesn’t he look so old. It’s like a teenager way to sit. Yes, I know he needs a haircut.
I have this thing for puffy things. I’m sure you’ve all seen my million photos of Oliver blowing puffs. Someone please tell me what this flower is. I must have it in my yard.
Weekend was pretty great. Happy Belated Father’s Day to all you fathers out there. We celebrated Friday night at my parents’ house. Since my mum is a night nurse and typically works weekends, we celebrate holidays on all sorts of crazy days/nights. Oliver is going to be so messed up when he’s older. After a lifetime of shifting holidays I can never remember what’s when. “You mean Christmas is not in January?!?!” It does work out pretty well for catching everyone we need to catch on all the big holidays though.
Anyway, Oliver was a riot this father’s day. We had gotten two big, hard to hide gifts and managed to THOROUGHLY surprise both dads. My dad (Oliver calls him Bahpie) got a grill from everyone. We stored it at our house until the day. Peter got a kayak (well, it’s a cross between a kayak and a canoe — all three of us will fit in with some squeezing.) That stayed in my parents’ basement until the big day. Oliver knew about both and was super excited and managed to keep the secrets for TWO WEEKS! I was so proud. Come the day, though, he was ready to burst. So we drove up to the house. Oliver ran inside and yelled “BAHPIE BAHPIE BAHPIE! Come out quick! The Bahpie’s Day Fairy came!” and then ran back out before my dad could come and jumped into the truck for the presentation. Oliver was jumping about and so excited. My dad was laughing so hard I thought he might wet himself. 
One down, one to go….
So the kayak was in my parents’ basement. How to get Peter down there for the surprise? Oliver and I decided we would go down there to pick out something for dinner from the freezer. Then we would start yelling about a mouse. (My parents have been fortunate enough to NEVER have a mouse in their basement, so I hope this doesn’t jinx them!) Peter came down and also thought Oliver’s enthusiasm quite funny. He was sitting in the kayak rowing away. I didn’t like my parents’ basement in the picture so took some artistic license and replaced it with last week’s trip to the park. Nice looking, isn’t it? Can’t wait to actually throw the boat in the water.
Okay, enough of that. Big news of the weekend was Andy’s graduation from High School. It was DARK. DARK DARK. We were so far away — 500 kids graduating in a hockey rink. Why didn’t they turn on some of those BRIGHT BRIGHT sports lights? Pictures are horrible. And I was having a hard time with my camera that’s been acting up.
AND! Total dork that I am…. we were in a hurry to get out of there because Andy had an Annapolis information session in Boston a mere 1.5 hours from the graduation. And we expected it to take us awhile to get out of graduation traffic. So we were feeling like we needed to go. Mind elsewhere…causes issues for me. Left the camera on 1600 ISO with the shutter speed set to 100, so you can guess how all the super bright outdoor sunshiney photos turned out. TOTALLY not paying attention. Yes, clearly it’s not my camera that has the problem. I did manage to fix things up on the camera later though for the Boston thing.
LOVE this flag. It’s by the piers and I see it almost every time we go into the city. Love the building structure and that the flag is always flapping in the dome from the breeze off the water.
The Annapolis information night included a tour of the USS Constitution. I took a tour EONS ago when I was in school. It was nice to have a refresher course.
yes, I behaved myself and did not climb any ropes, but they do look like fun, don’t they?!?! You think this looks like fun, you should see the ropes course at Annapolis. Course, I just want to play on it. I don’t want someone screaming at me to do it.
The Commander of the Constitution (please excuse my non-knowledge of Navy speak. I am truly sorry if I give anyone the wrong title!) gave a little talk that was really wonderful. One of the things he spoke of was that Andy’s class year is pretty exciting. He is the class of 2012. The American Navy really started in the War of 1812 so the Navy is making plans for it’s 200th celebration in the year Andrew will be commissioned. So it should be a pretty big celebration (not that it isn’t already!) The information night was so great. Got to speak with a few AMAZING men who are at the Academy now (midshipmen) and their parents too. They broke us up in Parent-parent and kid-Midshipmen groups later so that everyone could voice their concerns to their own group. So thankful for that parent’s group.
Alrighty then…marathon post! Hope y’all are good and tired now and ready for bed. Sweet dreams!
