avablog

L and I recently had a row about photography. She didn’t want me to sell my nicer DSLR, claiming my circa 2005 model didn’t take as nice a photo. To which I reply: Oh, and:

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I was sitting with Emmett in the living room the other day, listening to Ava cry about something or other out in the kitchen, when I looked into this face and said, “Emmett, why don’t you go give Ava a hug?”

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I had six (more) moles removed last week, all on my back. Within five minutes of walking through the door at home after the appointment, Ava piped up and told me she could help take care of my stitches, reminding me she’d done the same for her mom in the past. I was thrilled.

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Ava, You made my day today. Really, you made my life — again — but that’s what you always do.

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Turns out Ava has a thing for weaving. She mentioned the other day that she wanted to try knitting. When I thought of her trying to handle two big needles with her little brother running all over the place, I suggested she might have more fun with one of these loop-n-loom dealies. Long ago, my […]

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I love it when Emmett looks out the window. Which he does a lot, especially now that he’s developed a passion for vehicles of all kinds (end especially tractors). In this shot, I don’t think he was looking at anything in particular, but then sometimes it’s difficult to tell with him.

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Dear Emmett: You turned 17 months old yesterday, and I couldn’t help but think of your life’s very first moments, as I watched you running down the sidewalk–dragging a pumpkin on the ground–last night. As you tottered from house to house in your tooth costume, I was thinking about your big blue eyes and dark […]

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No, your RSS reader isn’t messing with you. This is a new post! I wanted to put up what turns out to be the closest I could get to a shot of Ava and Emmett together in their tooth-themed Halloween costumes:

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