Lindsay has developed quite the love affair with my camera and asks to practice with it on a regular basis. I don’t really mind, as it’s not like when we were kids and could waste an entire roll of film on photos of our eyeballs or the floor or up someones nostrils, and have it cost our parents money. The nice thing about digital is that they can obviously take pics of whatever they want, and it can be easily deleted with nothing lost.
I’ve been really surprised at how good she is at actually lining up a shot though. Most of her pics have had almost all of the subject in the frame, and most of them have also been in focus, which is more than I can say for most adults’ photo taking skills! 
I recently let her have free reign of the camera here at home, and then later at the park during a playdate with our friends Carrie and Ana. She created quite the photo story of us following a squirrel along the trails. There are also a few pics thrown in that Emery took, and two or three that I took of both of them. Enjoy.
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for poor Emery.
One of the only disadvantages I can see to kids having a stay-at-home parent is that they don’t grow up with it being normal to not see that parent every hour of every day. This was never much of an issue for Lindsay, as she has been such a strong, independent personality from day one. Dropping her off at school or extracurricular activities has never been a problem and rather, always been such a joy because she jumps into everything with enthusiasm, much like myself. Emery on the other hand - I knew from the day he was born he was going to have a tougher time dealing with things. He’s extremely intelligent and a complete crack up most of the time, but also very sensitive, emotional, and stubborn; also much like myself. ;) Just like me, he thinks that because he’s made his mind up about something, that’s the way it’s gonna go. You can see how this might be a problem now that he has started preschool. I had to pull him out of gymnastics last week because he simply refused to go out there with his class, and what do you do; drag them kicking and screaming to go do something that’s supposed to be fun?
Preschool’s another story though, because he’s gonna go whether or not he thinks he wants to. It just makes it so hard to leave him every time when he’s distraught and refusing to join the other kids who are quietly writing their letters. I remember seeing, or hearing rather, the little boys in Lindsay’s class last year throwing fits when their parents would leave, and thinking to myself at the time, ooooh boy, that’s probably going to be Emery. Why is it always the boys? Why do boys tend to be more clingy at this age? I don’t really know, but I know he’s having a hard time. and I’m having a hard time. But hopefully he’ll get used to it, and start to enjoy his time away from me and the house. Let’s just cross our fingers that that time comes sooner rather than later…
If you subscribe to the BBPhoto site’s RSS, you’re going to get the daily pictures of me. And while I think I’m remarkably beautiful, I’m willing to bet most people don’t care that much. WordPress provides per-tag pages/feeds in addition to the all-in-one, but I didn’t think to mention it last time. You can view pictures of Lindsay or Emery (obviously with some overlap), or you can subscribe to feeds of Lindsay or Emery. This will let you bypass the daily Barney, and not miss out on any kid shots.