What a Life!

Today I have an appointment to get Joey’s 3-month pictures taken.

Of course, it snowed last night. We were supposed to get somewhere between three and five inches. My estimate from the front window is that we got about three inches. Steve will be going out to scoop snow soon so we’ll get the real estimate then.

The snow will not stop me, however. I’m having one of the best photographers in town take Joey’s pictures. If it were JCPenny, I would reschedule.

I have not yet decided what he should wear. Ben’s 3 month picture has me in a nice, blue, button-down shirt with him in my arms wearing only a diaper. Joey would be cute in the same “outfit” but I hate to have the same exact thing of both boys.

My favorite outfit is dirty. I need to go put it in the wash so I can at least have it along.

I could do the diaper thing with a wool cover instead of the white one used by Ben. However, the white one with my blue shirt just looks so nice.

I don’t have any cute knitted things that fit him well enough for him to wear. Perhaps at six months he can wear mommy-knits for his picture.

And I must fix my hair nice. I haven’t gotten my curling iron out since I got my hair cut short. I’m threatening to heat up the old beast this morning and use it a little. I have discontinued its use mainly because I am afraid of a certain three-year-old touching it while it is hot and getting burned. Also, it takes more time to fix my hair if I curl it. Lazy. I know.

Joey’s been smiling for weeks now, but I have yet to capture a smile with our camera. It’s making me want to upgrade our camera to one that snaps sooner after you press the button. Ours has too much of a delay. I’m tired of taking ten pictures in order to get the timing right to get some cute antic. A faster speed would allow me to take two pictures instead of five or six. Maybe.

I really want a smile, though. Joey is so personable. He’ll look you right in the eye and smile and talk like he’s got all sorts of things that he wants to tell you. It’s so precious. His little conversation is getting more and more confidence in its tone. And he just loves to look you in the eye and smile.

I could have had his three-month pictures taken last month. My favorite photographer does sessions at Milkworks the second Tuesday of every month. The session in January was two weeks before he turned three months. Today’s session is two weeks after, but I decided to go later than earlier so he’d be smiling and interacting more. I was right.

So we shall get his picture taken, and then if I am feeling brave, I shall go look at cameras. We’ve upgraded before – I sell the old camera on ebay and then we only invest a little in the newer, better camera. I used to have a Cannon Rebel SLR film camera. I miss that camera. But I was tired of developing film and our digital camera at the time was only 2.0 megapixels. Now we have one that is 5.0 megapixels, but it is slow. I don’t care about the resolution – I just want some better speed. And a camera where I can fool around with the settings (not that I do now even though I have one that allows such messing around).

I want to capture artistic images of life and post them on a flickr account. Theoretically. It would be another hobby where I’d have something to show for my effort. I like having something to show for my effort.

I need to figure out how much I can get for our current camera. I kept the box, the manuals, and all the stuff that comes with a new camera. I thought I might want to sell it and upgrade later on. I was right.

And it’s all just in the name of capturing a smile from my sweet little Joey. Mr. Personality. Our Bundle of Joey.

Quick Correction: Steve says I’m very bad at estimating how much snow we got. He says it’s at least five inches and it’s very heavy snow. I think I’ll be calling our photographer to make sure she’s still going to be there before we head out.