Look alikes?

Brooks at 7 months.

Delia at 4 months.

So what was on the Phone?

Just a journal of what we've been doing for the past few months, captured in really low-quality images.

We played in the rain,

had a baby, (OK some of these pictures are really old, but how could I delete this??)

fed the baby in the middle of the night,

took the baby to a baseball game,

got Delia's second haircut (before),

(after)

sat in the skybox at a baseball game,

got smooched on by Aunt Peggy,

celebrated my first Mother's Day with 2 kids,

visited with our Grandma 'Manda,

cracked ourselves up in the car,

painted a picture,

went to the library,

went to a bread workshop (just me),

learned that French bread technique is hard,

went to my employee's wedding in Bay St. Louis - first time Nana and Papa kept BOTH kids!

cooked pizza with Delia's cooking set,

and she ate the whole thing!

We picked vegetables out of our garden,

and made a tomato pie with them.

I got brave enough to take Brooks to the store with me. He loves it. The colors, the people...

We went to visit Erin and Byron in Atlanta. Erin has chickens. And a basketball under her shirt.

Keeping a safe distance...

2 eggs! Still warm!

And we went to the Georgia Aquarium. You can't tell in this picture, but there were 80,000 other people there that day. It was a quick visit, but we saw a lot of stuff, including Beluga whales, seahorses, and Nemo.

Brooks saw a lot from his stroller, then fell asleep.

Technical Difficulties

Long time, no blog! Why?

1. I moved my business to a new location (it's awesome!), the internet at the new office was down for 5 days, then our family went to the beach for a week. It took me about a month to recover from that perfect storm.

2. Grady and I had to get new cell phones. You know you're out of town a lot when your provider drops you (Grady). CellularSouth just turned his phone off because his roaming was costing them so much money. So now we are with AT&T and have these huge HTC Galaxy phones that take way better pictures than our old phones. So after much finagling in email, Gmail, and DropBox, I finally got all my pictures off my old phone. The photos on the blog have to be in order! Especially now that Grady is printing the blog for me and making these awesome books. More on those later!

3. My laptop is almost 8 years old. That is 150 in laptop years. The other day I foolishly clicked the "Check out our new Blogger interface!" button. Mistake. My laptop can't view most sites correctly and after I clicked that "new and improved" option, I couldn't upload pictures to the blog anymore. But today I was back on the blog site, wondering when I'd ever get a new laptop, when I saw a link that said "Go back to the old interface." YES!! Give me the stone tablet version and I'll keep this clunky Powerbook for another year!

Before the avalanche of photos starts, here are some quotes from Delia that I don't want to forget:

Setting the stage: Grady goes in for a goodnight kiss and Delia pulls away.
Delia: "Daddy, I love you, but your beard is scratchy." Amen girl.

Setting the stage: Eating dinner at my parents' house, Delia is telling us about the learning centers at school. The Reading Center has books, the Home Living Center has a toy kitchen, the Science Center has animals, etc.
Delia: "I went to the B'Nipple Tips Center."
Me: "The WHAT?"
Delia: "B'NIPPLE TIPS"
(Repeat this 4 times)
Me: "What is at the B'Nipple Tips Center??"
Delia: "Puzzles and a doll house."
After much repetition and many attempts to decipher "B'Nipple Tips", we finally made a speaker phone call to Grady. He figured it out: "Manipulatives."

So here are some photos I never shared from late April. A photographer in town, Vanesha Williams, asked if she could take some pictures of Delia to use for a workshop, then she gave me all the photos!