Google Night Sight
Geeking out a little on Google’s new Night Sight feature on the Pixel 2. It is supposed to be even more amazing with the Pixel 3. Top left, picture in near darkness, top right same picture with Night Sight. Bottom left I used the Picasa “I’m feeling lucky” post-process the top left picture to get the best image it could get. The bottom right is the same feature applied to the upper right. Pretty amazing.
Great Country Farms 2018
We didn’t go to Great Country Farms earlier in the year because of rain, travel, and illness, but we did go this past weekend. It was cold and there were very few people there. We did have fun though.
Curie October 2018
So, Curie got sick this month with 8 straight days of fever, three of which were on antibiotics. She was diagnosed with pneumonia and needed to do blood work which was acutely traumatic since she doesn’t even like getting shots. We traded days taking care of her, and Albert took her to the doctor and the lab and had to hold her down while they took her blood. Luckily she is recovering and is almost 100% with just a residual cough. She missed a week and a day of school, days that she really couldn’t afford to miss to begin with. She did get a 3 out of 4 on her science test with only half of the unit in class. Continue reading “Curie October 2018”
Elia October 2018
Sometimes we don’t always know who the audience is for these blogs, though it is fairly certain that in the end it is for the kids to read about their childhood. What started out as a listing of Curie’s milestones as a baby has become more. Elia is working hard to carve out an identity for herself and this has good and bad consequences especially when she sees identity as something that someone else does not do rather than owning the things she wants to do. So if Curie wants one thing, Elia will identify with another. Curie likes udon, so Elia wants ramen, and so on. Lately, Curie has done the reverse and is exceptionally helpful when Elia is misbehaving. Continue reading “Elia October 2018”
Curie EMA Photoshoot
Curie had a photoshoot today. The pictures won’t be available until a lot later, but Erin took a few rogue ones. There is a crazy high kick one in the real pictures. We’ll post when we get them.
Happy 11th Anniversary
Halloween 2018
Curie was Hermione, and Elia was the evil queen (the costume Curie wore two years ago – “I am the evil queen, this used to be Curie’s, but it is too small for her.”
Evil Queens
Hoagland Halloween 2018
Each year we attend the Bella’s birthday party which is a crazy Halloween party with an elaborate haunted house. We have in the past had elaborate costumes to attend. This year, with everyone being sick we did not do a meta costume instead were a part of the theme much like we did in 2016. The haunted house this year was a Castle, so instead of medieval costumes like the Hoaglands had we came as contemporary royal dignitaries visiting the castle – easy costumes with a tuxedo (already had), girls in princess costumes (already had) and Erin re-purposing her dress from 2010 when she was Princess Peach (note after two kids, it still fits!). Our best year was still probably 2014, but we were just glad to make it. Oh and these are not the kids’ costumes for Halloween.