New Photos

We're strange people. As you well know, we love to take pictures of our little boy. But for some crazy reason we go through these periods where we hardly take any pictures (relatively speaking of course). Just to drive my point home, during Quin's fifth month of life, we took a whopping 963 photographs. Then, during Quin's sixth and seventh months, we only took 271 and 272 photos. The eighth month was dismal, with a lousy 127 photos. I mean, what kind of parents are we?

So to reset the karmic balance and restore the world's natural order, after these periods where our shutter fingers get a break from their train ride to Carpaltunnelville, we go nuts. We'll easily take 500 pictures in a day.

This past Mother's Day weekend was just one of those times. We spent most of Saturday and most of Sunday taking pictures. We took 630 photographs in two days. On Saturday we headed down to Lake Austin near the loop 360 bridge for a few (better check Webster's for the definition of the word "few") location portraits. Then on Sunday Barbara came over for Mother's Day and we did some studio shots.

So maybe we did get a little lazy with the picture taking. But we got a few keepers this weekend, so that makes up for it. To see all 26 of the new photos, check out Quin's portrait gallery on Picasa.


Can you believe we never got around to getting the standard "little hand in big hand" shot until Quin was more than nine months old? Oh well, so Quin's hands are a little bigger now. It took about four shots to get the one we wanted, and here it is.