Camera Woes

I'm not the bad blogger that I appear to be. Really. It's not my fault that the last post was so long ago. I have wanted to put up new things. In fact, I've made several attempts to take cute, endearing, and entertaining photos of Benjamin that I could post. However, my camera has heard the awful things I've been saying about it and grown tired of the constant beatings it sustains at the hands of my 1 year old and decided to go on strike until working conditions improve. I have not been able to take a single picture since Thanksgiving. In fact, I can't even see anything in the screen anymore. It looks like satellite reception in a bad snowstorm. I've been very depressed about it. I check in on it every few days, promise to speak kindly and to protect it from being thrown across the room in the future, but it continues to glare at me with its fuzzy screen and staunchly refuses to capture any of my special moments. Alas. So, today in desperation, I called in a strike breaker - the PDA. It has a marginally decent camera that served to record at least a few cute moments of Benjamin's first real experience with snow. It was so much fun. We bundled him up in his snowsuit and took him outside in the back yard. The snow was up to his knees and at first he was hesitant. But being the adventurer that he is, with a little help from dad, he was more than willing to play...until his gloves fell off and the cold snow touched his warm wrists. Then the party was over.

With gloves...




Without gloves...

Even after they were back on, he wanted nothing more to do with the snow. It was okay though because the PDA battery was dead by then. :)

Other than furious snowstorms that shut down church, school, and everything but shopping at Target, there's not much going on around here (what a crazy crowd there was today - never shop on a snowday before Christmas!!). We're heading to Utah for Christmas in two days and are very excited about it.

Oh! And it's been confirmed - the next baby Dalton is a girl. I had my 20 week ultrasound today and a different tech agreed with the first that this baby was indeed a girl. So, now the second half of my pregnancy begins and we anxiously await little Isabella Katherine Dalton's arrival. We'll see if that'll still be her name when she gets here. It's all still negotiable. We're up for suggestions.

In closing, here's a little video of what keeps Benjamin entertained every morning. He's discovered that the bottom dishwasher rack can be removed and serves as a very fun bumper car. (I took this a while ago, before the camera strike, but never remembered to post it.)