When I sat down tonight to write this post, I was going to say how I was still undecided about what to do with this blog. I was going to write, how I was very seriously contemplating just shutting it all down and just exclusively using Flickr. Flickr has everything I need, I can go back and look at the pictures of the kids. I can access it everywhere. As I sat editing our monthly photos, all those thoughts and more were running through my head.

Then I uploaded these photos to Flickr and…

…and it dawned on me why Flickr by itself is NOT going to work for me. When there is no blogging, like last month, I don’t upload any photos. They sit untouched on my computer. Look at this set of all the pictures I took of Isabelle for month 76. There are four. F.O.U.R! I definitely took more than four pictures. I think I took more than four pictures. See, with no blogging, I have no clue. And no pictures to look at? I will definitely miss pictures.

So…so…I’m not going to stop blogging. In fact, there will be blogging! You might even get some pictures from the Christmas season on here because…F.O.U.R. pictures!! But as to how I’m going to do it? I don’t know. But at least now, I know I want to.

Oh and I completely forgot. These pictures. I didn’t say a thing about them. These are our monthly photos. Isabelle is now six years four months. Nathan is two years four months. I particularly love the zombie shots of the kids. I don’t know what it is with my kids and zombies. The other day Nathan was in the car singing a little song to himself…about zombies. ZOMBIES!!

And that tongue picture? Nathan has been doing that lately unexpectedly for pictures. So funny.

Here are our monthly family pictures, late. We kept forgetting. But anyhoo…this was on Isabelle’s day. I like the kids getups.

With Nathan I’m specifically talking about the Hello Kitty jacket. He didn’t choose it. Alan did. It was cold outside and Alan was in a rush and grabbed something, anything. With Isabelle it was her princess crown and the curls she asked me to put in her hair. We were in a rush since it was getting dark so I only did the front, you can’t see the back so why curl it.

Then for Nathan’s picture day, him in his Batman shirt. He specifically asked for it. You can’t see the velcro-ed cape on his back but it is definitely there. He has gone a little cuckoo over Batman. In fact, tonight, after his bath he was complaining because he wanted to wear his dirty Batman shirt again. And I may or may not have added some velcro to a regular shirt so he could wear the cape. And then Isabelle with that do-dad on her head and the play necklace. It’s so funny the things she wants to wear.

Too bad we weren’t late by another day taking Nathan’s picture. Why? Isabelle lost one of her bottom teeth at dinner tonight. And we could have showed you her new gap. Which reminds me. Tooth fairy. Right NOW. Ok…goodnight before we have a repeat of this.

Here is our monthly family picture:

Just kidding. Sort of. We remembered it was family picture day after it got dark. And we weren’t even home, we were out at Target. When the kids were playing with these masks, I joked we should take a picture of us all in masks and that should be our monthly family photo.

But you can’t see our faces. So, I knew I wanted to take them again, properly. I figured a day late is ok.

Except we kept forgetting. We finally remembered yesterday, a day before Nathan’s monthly photos. Oh well.

Here are Nathan’s monthly photos. See him waving here? Alan told him to wave at the camera and he did.

He stood there waving.

And waving.

And waving.

He thought is was hilarious.

I can’t believe it! It’s November, a week away from when we should be taking our monthly family photos, and I just remembered I didn’t even share last month’s.

Oh well…here they are now. See, this one right above, we took as the sun was going down. We were traveling on the road, had been for a few hours when we pulled over in the middle of nowhere. I clambered up on our car and propped the camera up on top of the roof. We should have taken the picture before we left the house to avoid the clambering and placing the camera in a precarious position but ummm….oh well, again.

My poor little guy. When we came back from Disneyland Nathan had a bad eczema break out. I don’t know why. He’d been doing so well before that at home and at Disneyland.

The break out is on his face, his shoulders, his arms, his belly, and his thighs. Basically all over. We wonder if it’s because the day we left, he had been playing all day with sunblock on, then we popped him in the car at night and we drove all night with no shower.

It’s been a few days since I took those pictures. Now his skin is a little improved but he has two new scratches on his face. He must be itchy. I can’t remember the last time he scratched open his face, it’s been so long. We called the doctor and she prescribed some hydrocortisone cream. Hopefully he’ll be better soon.

This is what his skin looked like before we left, on his birthday.

Speaking of his birthday. Here are our monthly family photos taken from each of the kids’ birthdays.