I just got back from a three-and-a-half mile run. I should put an exclamation point at the end of that statement since I can’t remember the last time I ran that far. It’s been pre-kids for sure:) For the last nine weeks I’ve been attending Dustin Maher’s 5:30am boot camps. And I loooove them. Which [...]
While reading a fellow-photographer’s blog the other day, I learned about a school of thought called Humanism. She was saying that she wasn’t religious but that her beliefs could most closely be summarized by the Humanist Manifesto. After reading it, I would kinda say the same thing about myself. I especially liked this sentence, “We [...]
Each weekday morning for the last month-and-a-half, I’ve been driving through the dark streets of Madison at 5:15am on my way to my morning fitness boot camp. There are many, many reasons that I’ve loved going to boot camp, but one of them is the time in the car listening to NPR. My kids, you [...]
My little boy is off on his second week of Kindergarten. Hard to believe! He’s really loving it. Andrew’s young heart thrives on calendars and schedules and charts. He starts each day looking at the calendar and figuring out what day it is and how many days until some event in the future. Now that [...]
Back when it was summer. When our lazy days were spent lallygagging from one activity to the next, Andrew and Sylvia took swimming lessons at the Monona pool. Each morning at 10am, we drove over to Jessica, Eli, and Celia’s house and then walked together to the pool. Eli and Andrew had class in the [...]
On August 19, we registered Andrew for kindergarten. He was pretty stoked! Here we are just outside his school taking a group shot before heading in. My big guy requesting his folder of information for KG! Registration was mostly me filling out forms and turning them in while the kids colored and watched a movie. [...]
Sylvia stopped napping sometime in July (sniff!!). And around the same time, she climbed (successfully) out of her crib a couple times. It is indeed a startling thing to have one’s child appear before you when you think they are tucked away snug in their bed. So we decided that it was time to transition [...]
Due to the usual obsessive nature of my blogging, I sometimes wonder if things actually happen if I didn’t write and post photos about them. Would Christmas really have been Christmas if there was no post on dotzourfamily.com? Did we ever all really go to Jack’s house on a warm weekend in July/August? Or was [...]
Back in August, I biked the kids to the downtown Farmer’s market. Here’s Sylvia embracing life (and the impatiens): It all went great until my girl didn’t want to put on her seatbelt for the bike back home. Thus began a half-hour tantrum. Here I am photographing the start of it. Somehow, she calmed down [...]
I picked up Andrew at 1:45 from his first day of Kindergarten. They have short days today and tomorrow. He came out of school full of smiles. My young guy doesn’t tend to be too forthcoming with details about his life, but he did tell me that he made a friend (although he wasn’t sure [...]
