Playing Catch Up

Ugh.  Good thing I didn’t make a resolution to blog regularly.  That would have lasted a day.  I thought I would give you guys a quick update on life.

On Tuesday, Little Lady and I drove to St. Louis to the children’s hospital to see a craniologist.  She was referred by our pediatrician.  While she is progressing developmentally, there are some concerns about her head size.  It is pretty small.  I have to admit it is hard to tell how small it is because she is such a petite little girl to begin with (coupled by her cutie little afro). 

She had to get sedated and had a CT scan performed.  Even sedated, she fought it.  The nurses were amazed by how much she fought while being heavily sedated.  The scans came back good.  The craniologist diagnosed Little Lady with microcephaly.  Fancy way to say small head in proportion to the rest of her body, pretty much.  Now they want to know the cause because nothing was evident in the CT scan.  So next month we get to see a neurologist.  Whoopie!  Can you feel my excitement?  Not!  (A little Wayne’s World for my friends older than 25)

We had some snow last week, but I didn’t take any pictures.  Frankly the thought of getting my camera out in the snow with my 5, 3, and 1 year old all by myself wasn’t enticing.  So the camera stayed inside where it was nice and toasty.  I did force myself to take a few pictures yesterday.  It seems like forever since I’ve shot something with intention and thought.

My husband got me roses.  My favorite time is when they open up completely.  I put on my close up attachments to get very close and have a super shallow depth of field.  Maybe it is too shallow.  I had my +1, +2, and +4 on all together.  My aperture was at 3.5, but with the attachments it really doesn’t make much of a difference, just helps the exposure triangle at that point.  So is it too shallow? 

I thought it looked neat, but then I looked later and didn’t like it at all.  Like didn’t like it so much that I wasn’t going to put it on the blog.  But here it is, for everyone to see my weird battle in my head about my photos.  Do you do that, too?