Week in the Life 2011

Currently, my best friend Joe (also known as my Nikon D5100) is down in the office putting all the lovely photos from the last week safely onto our computer. There are nearly 500 photos on there, but I found an even better source of photos for my Week in the Life project: Noah's camera. After a particularly successful playdate, my 4-year-old came home asking for a camera. Turns out, his buddy had one of those Fisher Price cameras made just for toddlers. With his birthday coming up, we seriously considered buying Noah one of these lovelies, but then we remembered the old digital camera we had hanging out under our bed. So for the past week, as I've been taking photos of everything, so has Noah. He hasn't yet let go of his camera long enough for me to hook it up to the computer, but it is next on the list. I can hardly wait to get my hands on all those photos!

I know that I didn't take as many photos as I did last year, but I think the photos tell a better story. I could have taken pictures of every meal and snack we ate over the 7 days, but instead I tried to really look at what we are doing this year, especially compared to last year. There aren't any diapers hanging on a line in the backyard, mostly because we have stopped cloth diapers after 4 years of poopy washes but also because we don't have a backyard anymore. But there are photos of lunches at McDonald's, a weekly must, and playdates in the park. New this year? Mommy running a 5K! I hadn't planned to have a race fall during a WITL week, but I am so glad that it happened to since running (or more accurately, trotting) has become a big part of my life. 

All in all, I think this project will turn out well, though I know with Noah's birthday party coming up this weekend, I won't have as much time to spend on it as I would like this week. But I can hardly wait to show off what I make.