Baby Photoshoot
April 18 2009 08:48 PM
My
sister sent us the pictures that she took of Aidan when she was
down last Saturday. They look great! You can find them here (and
also from the Photos page). I’ve looked at many of the photos Kim
has taken on her flickr site and
also on her blog,
but I’ve never actually got to watch her take any photos. I was so
impressed. I figured she had to use some sort of special lighting
or something but all she did was put Aidan in front of a window.
She didn’t even have to use a flash (which made Delia happy - she
was worried about hurting Aidan’s eyes). She’s got a few props - a
couple fuzzy pieces of fabric and some crocheted outfits that wrap
the babies that she calls “eggs.” I think she’s definitely ready to
go pro.
Unfortunately Kim can’t follow us everywhere to chronicle Aidan’s
life. So delia and I plan to get a new camera soon. I imagine we’ll
just get a point and shoot, neither of us have the talent to
require anything more sophisticated. Right now I’m looking at
a Canon PowerShot SD960.
It’s pretty cool because it can take HD video as well as pictures.
Even with a nice camera I would get your fill of professional
looking photos with these pictures. After Delia and I get behind
the lens they’ll be plenty of red-eyes and blurred images to go
around.
Tags: Aidan
Aidan is born
April 14 2009 07:51 PM
Aidan George
Loring was born on April 9th at 9:31 PM (I remembered the time
wrong and originally texted everyone with 9:24). He weighed 7
pounds and 1 ounce and was 21.5 inches long. Delia and I spent a
couple nights in the hospital before we got to bring him home on
Saturday. Since then we have just been feeding him and changing him
and trying to sleep when he sleeps. Delia’s parents have been such
a big help. They’ve allowed us to focus completely on Aidan and
leave the cooking and cleaning to them. I don’t know what we’ll do
when they go back to China, I think they’ll need to ease us back in
to being adults by gradually letting us do all the things we use to
do a few weeks before they leave.
We haven’t got to take many pictures yet, but there really hasn’t
been much to take pictures of up to this point. My sister Kim came
over on Saturday and took some newborn pictures. When she finishes
touching them up I’ll post them. The picture in this post is
actually one she took at the hospital. She’s getting pretty good at
this photography stuff. You can see some more of her pics
here.
We also took a video of him waking up this morning. You can find it
on the video
page. We think it’s
really cute the way he stretches his arms up over his head and
yawns. He’s been doing that consistently each time he wakes up from
his naps for the last couple days.
Tags: Aidan
Dad's new dog
April 05 2009 10:32 PM
My
Dad recently got a new dog (unfortunately, I can’t remember what
kind of dog it is, even though he told me. Maybe he’ll leave a
comment and remind me again). He’s been working hard to train him
to catch a frisbee. Today he sent me a video clip showing his
progress. I’ve added it to the videos page (picture in post links
to video page). I’ll say one thing, you can definitely tell the dog
loves to play frisbee. It’s all I can do to get my
golden retriever to fetch a
tennis ball once or twice, and usually he acts like he’s doing me a
favor when he does go get it. Plus I’ve got to wrestle the ball
away from him on the rare occasions when he does bring it back. In
the video you can see Dad instructs “Bo” to drop the frisbee before
he’ll throw it again. To me that’s a good idea. Dad says he’s still
working to get him to catch it in the air. He’s got to teach him to
start running before he throws it so he’ll be in a position to
catch it.
Loring family photos
March 31 2009 08:40 PM
I
added several more photographs from my parents’
albums today. I’ve had the albums for over a year now and still
haven’t finished scanning them all in. I’m using iPhoto to organize
and enhance the photos. It does a pretty good job on most of them,
but there’s a few that really need some more work. I have been
scanning them in 4 at a time on a flatbed scanner and thinking to
myself the whole time, “there’s got to be a scanner made
specifically for this type of work.” But I can’t find one. The
albums I’m working on now are just the start. Eventually I hope to
get all of the photographs my family has taken before the digital
age scanned in. One of my favorite pictures has got to be the one
of my older sister in her “Stryper” t-shirt.
Now we're ready
March 23 2009 08:30 PM
Earlier this
week Aidan’s baby furniture was delivered. We decided to get one of
those cribs that converts into a toddler bed(kind of like a daybed)
and then later into a full-size bed. We also got a dresser/changing
table. You can see all the pictures here. We’re planning
on replacing the picture above the crib with something a little
more “kid-friendly” but Delia and I are not the best at picking
that kind of stuff out. Believe it or not, that picture above
Aidan’s crib is the only picture we have hanging on a wall in our
entire house. We’re really quite boring.
Tags: Aidan
