Monday, November 06, 2006

bringing the circus home


Kate got this toy from her Grampa for her birthday and we just finally assembled it over the weekend. When I say 'we', I mean Tim stood with the foot pump, stomping away, for most of the Husky game. I sat on the sofa and sipped margaritas. Okay, water. Whatever. Let me live out my little fantasy, okay?

Kate loves her new toy. LOVES. 'Ball!' It actually sounds more like 'baa', but we know what she means. It's her own little haven, away from all but Starbuck, who follows her in all her toy-playing.

That morning, we tried Christmas photos in front of the A-10. We will be finding another venue for the Christmas card photo. See below.

Although cute, the football stance wasn't what we were looking for.


All shadow, no faces.

Most of the photos turned out like the one above. Dark, with not much A-10. Granted, I haven't even tried to lighten them, but there was so much sunlight that everything was backlit. Thank God for the golden hour; we'll be trying that out next.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mykenzie and Jacob had a blow-up ball bus! It also provided hours of entertainment. It now has a slow leak somewhere we cant find, but we still have it so that Noah can have at least a quick turn. Im sure it will show up before too long. The only problem was I got really tired of picking up the 100 colored balls!

Andrea and Ben said...

cool toy.....do they make it in grown up sizes?

Katie said...

That is a cool toy. Kate looks cute in her Christmas dress!

Jen said...

Luckily ? the castle only came with 20 balls. The photo on the box has the base full of plastic colorful balls. I guess you have to buy them separately. It's hard to bury her in 20 balls.