NotN is coming in three days! (egg egg egg egg egg) Vibrating with excitement over here. In 2022 I got 64 eggs, and last year I got 47, so for this year I’ve set a modest goal of 50 (because it would feel bad to get less every year). As always, I’m impressed that people literally live in the coli during NotN. I saw one person with a goal of 500 eggs. I could never. On the other hand, I also saw someone say “I didn’t get any eggs last year, so I hope I get one this year!” I hope they get an egg too.
The first week of NotN coincides with the other major event of the holiday season, Christmas at brother's house. At Thanksgiving, it was technically up in the air whether brother was driving down to visit us or we were driving up to visit him, but I figured it would be the latter. Traveling with an 18-month-old is rough. He doesn’t like car rides because he’s cooped up in his car seat. And he has so much stuff (high chair, personal bathtub, stair gates, bottles & bottle warmer, diapers, toys…).
We’re planning to drive up on the 24th and head back on the 27th. When I last saw BB in September, he had recently learned how to walk. His rapid transition from “unable to stand without holding on to something” and “running through the house” took his parents by surprise, and they hadn’t yet bought shoes for him.
Lately I’ve been looking through my photos because Dad wants to make a BB photo book, and I’ve realized that casual photos involving babies are just plain better. It’s not only because babies are cute. It’s because people smile at babies a lot. If you take casual slice-of-life photos (my favorite genre of photo) of people cooking or chatting or scrolling their cell phones, they generally have neutral expressions. But put them next to a baby and they are grinning and cooing. And it’s a natural smile, not a pasted-on smile for a family photo.
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