Ethan's Winter Walk

Ethan went with Mom and Dad to delivery some Christmas goodies tonight. It was a bit cold, but he enjoyed the ride. This picture was taken after returned home. You can see that his nose and cheeks got a bit rosey from the cold. He didn't like it when Mom put his puppy hat on, but I'm sure he was glad Mom insisted he wear it.

In related news, Ethan is 9 months old as of yesterday. To commemerate the day, Ethan finally decided to oblige his mom and dad by saying "dada." He also started signing back to us the sign for milk.

Mom and Dad are good too. Mom and Dad got a lot of yard work done before the snow storm hit. Dad sawed down another tree and Mom followed by chipping all of its branches. Mom is getting over a bad cold, and Dad is hoping he won't catch it. As you can see it has been an eventful weekend.

Finally, we decided our previous post of our christmas tree didn't do it justice, so we tried again. This one really shows how many lights there actually are on our tree. Sometimes we get dizzy looking at it.



This picture, inspired by Heather Taylor's picture of her Christmas tree, used a tripod with no flash, an open aperture and very long shutter speed to capture the lights. Unfortunately, this method empahasized the lights too much, so we then took a picture from the same position with a flash to capture the ornaments, and did a little Photoshop magic to get the finished picture.