Sledding is fun

I am not sure if Mama is enjoying this, but I sure am. She thinks we're going to run over Papa who is taking the picture. I just like going fast, no matter the vehicle. We are on a neighborhood street up in Tahoe where we spent Christmas vacation this year. The roads had been plowed, but not completely so they made for a nice slick track.

There were lots of things to do up there, but primarily it was a nice relaxing vacation for my parents with lots of eating. GrannyM and Pop-pop Bob, as well as Uncle Billy and Auntie Caroline all joined in for a memorable time. Lots more pictures of the vacation are posted on Papa's Flickr account. We hope everyone had a safe holiday break.

Happy holidays 2007

Happy holidays everyone, we are getting ready to spend Christmas week up at lake Tahoe. I am going to experience snow for the first time. GrannyM and Pop-pop Bob will be joining us from Los Angeles, while Uncle Billy and Auntie Carolyn will also be making the pilgrimage from the SF bay area. There is even an unsubstantiated rumor Uncle Misha from Oregon may join us for a day while we're up there.

These are the Christmas lights on our neighbor's fence. They were first ignited on Thanksgiving day and thus were the first in the neighborhood. I can see them from my bedroom window when I am getting ready to go to sleep. They're awfully pretty in the evenings, so much so I had to touch them - every last one of them.

Ladders are mine

Something must have not registered with my parents before this weekend. I can climb ladders. Zeke do. Papa was certainly surprised when I helped myself to this blue one over at the school. It really isn't a ladder in the sense that I don't have to use my arms to pull myself up, but it does have rungs and stands vertically near the bottom. I've been climbing the gym ladders at my daycare's park but neither parent has ever seen me do it. They are so easily amused. To be sure, I ran around and climbed it two more times.

Still watching

If one does a search for "see you" in the box at the upper left, one will find many different posts that use that phrase. I've been watching the World for quite a long time, a little over two years in fact. Well... I still like to watch. It's fun to watch. Here I am hiding underneath the stairs of one of the playground sets over at the school. Sometimes I like to go under there to make piles of wood chips or to find especially big ones.

I'll come back out later when I get hungry or have to go potty. But for now, I'll stay in the comfort of my toddler-sized space as long as I have a good vantage point on the World outside.

Sunset limits

Papa didn't take any pictures this weekend because both of us were sick. I think we have the same chest cold Mama had over Thanksgiving; she endured it and so will we. Instead, this photograph was from last week when we were looking at the birdies down at Shoreline. Papa kept trying to take a picture of me with the sunset in the background but I kept trying to catch him. This is one of the few he managed to salvage.

A photograph's exposure is determined by three things; aperture, shutter speed, and ISO setting. This photo has all three pushed to the extremes. Maximum aperture, at the expense of a shallow depth of field. Slowish shutter speed, at the peril of camera shake and subject motion. High ISO speed, with loss of resolution and increased digital noise. But what is not taken into account is how cute I am. The technical stuff behind the camera means nothing if the subject in front is not interesting. Cute trumps tech any day. I win.