I insisted the child have fire at her second birthday party.

I may have created a monster.

Just walkin'

My child is short.  Walking is sometimes a trial.

But she did have a good time pushing this thing around, nonetheless.

Posting

Yes, a serious lack of posts recently.  The major problems have been twofold. 

The first relates to time.  In particular, one of my normal posts takes about 2 hours to do.  I have to comb through the pics, find the best ones, resize them, do the same for movies (which is much worse - they have to go through several programs to make them usable), then come up with witty dialog.  It gets very intimidating when I haven't done it for awhile, since there is so much source material to go through.

The second is also about time.  Blame Skyrim.  It has swallowed my soul.

So I'm on to an experiment.  I'm going to post random pics and not worry overly much about it.  Today's topic:  Buckethead.

These are quite old.  Apparently at her last daycare she'd just walk around with this bucket on her head.  I have an odd child.

The poor balloon...

This is a balloon:

Note how it is happily floating along without a care in the world.


This is also a balloon:

Note that after a hard night of partying, the balloon is a bit...  tired.

The hard part: after watching your child poke at it and regale it to "wake up!" repeatedly, having to try to explain that no, it won't wake up and no, daddy can't fix it.

Probably made me more sad than it did her...

Ingenious!

See my latest creation!

(It's ingenious because Jenni says so, btw).

For those of you not capable of grasping the consequences immediately, let me clear it up for you:

It's like making the sausage into a supplementary condiment-delivery device. It nearly DOUBLES the amount of stuff you can fit in a Chicago dog!  C'mon, people!

For those of you still not capable of seeing the awesomeness, I have no use for you.  Move along.  Or look at a few pictures of Gwen, if you must:

Gwen's first professional haircut.  Don't blame me for the shaky camera, I wasn't there. 

Very shy at the new daycare

Starting to get the feel for it

SWING!

She didn't want to come home with me this day...

Ice cream at grammer's

Eating a cupcake from Amie

CUPCAKE!

Fine dining...

Went to chick-fil-a for dinner.  She SEEMED excited to go, but pretty much all she ate were a few grapes and...

...catsup.  Yes, this is definitely my child.

This is my child JUST before screaming for 20 minutes that she wouldn't go to bed.  And by screaming, I mean shrieking.  And covering my left shoulder with smears of toddler snot and tears.  This is two nights in a row she's refused to go to sleep, she used to just lie down and she was out...