Saturday, February 26, 2011

When the Photographing Everything Bug Passes

On both of our laptops are files for our photographs of Arianna.  They are broken down by month and within each month folder are individual folders for big events.  During her first two months of existence you could track Arianna almost hourly by the photographs taken.  During her first month we took no less than 324 pictures, an average of 10 plus a day.  In month two which included Christmas that jumped to 354 or an average of 11 plus per day.  January though saw reality set it and only 184 pictures or just about 6 a day.  Now February is drawing to a close and we go days without taking a photograph.  I intended to do a weekly wrap up blog today and went looking for a photo and discovered we hadn't taken any since Tuesday when we did her week fifteen photos.  We still took a bunch of photos this month, 217 as of this morning, an increase over January but it is clear that the number is in a steady decline.  With her visit from Chuck and Nick, baptism, and first real trip coming up, no doubt March will have some great photograph opportunities but it would seem that bug of always having the camera with us and photographing every little event has passed.

As for this week, it was somewhat anticlimactic after the big accreditation visit last week.  The Governor had to postpone on us and we are now rescheduling that visit.  It will be another week or two before we get the team report though we are already almost done with our response based on the anticipated language in it.  Next weekend is Arianna's baptism and our cousins Chuck and Nick arrive Wednesday so we are looking forward to playing tourist with them.