Hug O'War

Hug O'War

I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.


Sheldon Allan Silverstein

Sebastian has started hugging me, and it makes me the happiest person in the universe! Happy Six Months Old!

Babu, Babu, oh I do love you

 

 

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

 
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Learning to play....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once Sebastian turned the corner of five months the changes have been remarkable.  He can reach out and pick things up, delicately finger objects, and his eyes are opening to the world around him.

Tent Game

 

 

 

 

 

We love reading

 

 

 

 

Baby Monster is hungry!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vintage Baby Photo

This is as close as Sebastian will probably get to looking like the "Gerber Baby"!  At four months he's not very chubby or even classicaly "baby cute"; he is, however, full of personality and has a winning smile, and shining eyes that know how to find the camera! 

Even with all of that I still have to work a little to get a good shot.  I talk to him and try to get him to laugh (he usually is entranced by the camera and ignores me).  After I weed through the photos, and it does help to have a camera that can take rapid fire frames, I pick a few that I fool around with in the basic processing available in the free program Picasa.  I can't wait until I can get a new laptop and *real* photo processing programs because they are amazing!

As you can see from the first picture below the photo out of the camera is a little dark.  So I upped the highlights and then gave it a little white "vignette" border to put the focus on his face.  I then tried the new "infared" action and it suddenly made him look like a vintage photograph from the 1940's!  I'd tried the black and white but it left his face too flat.  This one emphasized his expression.