Shotsnaps: July 2021

7.31.2021

7.15.2021

Due to heavy demand for outdated posts (I'm looking at you, Mr. Nobody), here's the latest installment of Winter 2021, featuring boys with comics, queens eating salad, the first soft-hued eggs, the first batch of maple syrup, the last batch of maple syrup, and, of course, the jolly baby.

Order of Events

Happy boy.

Sad boy.

Sleeping boy.

Seeking Sunshine

Many Pictures of a Boy Baby in a Pink Seat

Until he outgrew this odd, little seat, Ransom loved being included in elevated activities. He talked with me and watched birds with Millie, but he mostly spent time looking cute while occasionally pretending he was a fish.

See? Little fishy.

PLUS VIDEO!!!!

The slow wonder of the everyday.

Ransom's introduction to the wind.

Bready Birthday

For Lucinda's birthday, Zeke promised her a loaf of bread.

A month later, he delivered.

Bread rising.

Bread baked.

And I assume he took this picture of the girl having her first bite of belated bread.

Leftovers.

These arrow earrings are the whole reason that Annika got her ears pierced. Her first time wearing them-- documented.

Having two boys is only eclipsed by having three boys.

Ransom arbitrates.

I haven't taken many pictures in the last year, and my desire to pick up the camera has waned in proportion to Mildred's and other children's increased desire to pick up the camera. (Maybe, just maybe, I'll buy a new camera sometime, and shotsnaps will experience a renaissance.) Because I use the camera less than everyone else, I had to delete many pictures in order to put up this March post. I kept a few, though...