Heather – Page 13 – If we had a Marriage, These Would be its Thoughts

Tech Museum

April 11, 2015 12:54 pm

Heather’s been feeling a little uneasy about the new family organization. So on April 1st I took the day off and we went down to the Tech Museum in San Jose for which Mike and Tina gave us a gift certificate for Christmas.

Heather had a blast.

We started with the requisite Chick-Fil-A, since one was in the area. As we pulled in to the parking lot Heather began exclaiming, “I love Chick-Fil-A. We’re so close I can almost taste it!” And as soon as we walked in, “This is the best day ever!”

So the trip started off good.

At the Tech Museum she liked playing with the infrared camera:

And anything she could put her hands on, which was pretty much everything:

The downside of the visit was that the place was crawling with school groups with little to no supervision. Nothing particularly bad, but every exhibit was therefore swamped and trying to get a chance to play with it was difficult at times. But, after about 2:30 when all the school groups left it was quite nice. Heather got a chance to have the robot artist draw her picture:

And the spelling robot wrote her name in blocks:

It was fun. We’ll have to go back sometime.

Heather’s Mask

11:26 am

Heather wanted to make a mask this morning. Here’s what she came up with. She even took a self-portrait with her tablet.

Family Pictures

February 24, 2015 8:26 pm

Heather drew pictures of each of us today. I find it fascinating that all children go through a phase where people are just heads with appendages. But look at those faces! Eyebrows! And the possibly intentional size difference between Heather and us!

If you look really closely at Heather, next to her right hand is a little dot. She added that so that she wouldn’t be lonely. She’s been spending a fair bit of time on measures to not be lonely lately. I think she’s feeling a little neglected with all the turmoil happening in the house over the last couple weeks as we try to get everything rearranged and ready for the baby. Hopefully we’ll have time to give her some attention before her world gets turned completely upside down.

Heather the Snail

February 23, 2015 6:35 pm

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Halloween 2014

November 1, 2014 10:17 am

Heather has been anticipating Halloween ever since her pirate costume arrived a few weeks ago. She would tell us all about how she was going to dress up as a pirate with her pumpkin bucket (which she remembered from last year) and go to houses and get candy.

On a whim I decided to try using off-camera flash for a few of her pictures. Luckily they came out fantastic. This is my favorite picture (Jess held the flash on-level with the pumpkin about 10 feet to my left; and this was with that 50mm prime lens that I think is just fantastic):

IMGP2361as — Pentax K-7, Pentax DA 50mm. f/8.0, 1/100s, ISO 100. Off-camera flash ~10 feet to the left.

Heather “helped” design and cut the pumpkin. It came out pretty well. Sorry for the slightly fuzzy picture. We discovered (by looking at these pumpkin-carving pictures) that Heather had smudged Jess’ camera lens.

No idea what she’s doing in this picture. Possibly trying to match the pumpkins’ faces.

From house to house she would do this adorable little trot/run thing. She fell once and some candy fell out of her bucket. She got a little scraped up and had a minor meltdown (mostly about the candy). Then she decided to best way to feel better would to get up and go to the next house.

This is the walkway to our front door. I had the lights off to get this picture the way I wanted it.

After we returned home Heather still had a blast handing out candy. She may have actually enjoyed handing it out more than getting it. Often she would refuse to give out any candy until a kid told her what they were dressed up as.