Stop-motion Clara

We were experimenting with the white balance settings on my phone camera and Clara turned it into a stop-motion yawn.

TBT (aka "Throwback Thursday") is a thing right now on Facebook. I haven't much participated, but since it's Thursday, and Dieter emailed these pictures he found, I figured it's as good a time as ever to jump on the bandwagon. My best guess is that these pictures were taken around 1985. Perhaps even while we were on vacation in Ocracoke?

School Pictures

And now, this year's fabulous school photos. Besides the fact that I think these kids are awesome, I love the stories I hear about the photo process. 

Molly has long reported to me that the LifeTouch folks basically insist on the kids smiling with teeth and tilting their heads "just so" (see Clara, below), and I always assure her that she does not need to do anything in the pictures that she doesn't want to. This year, the kids told me, LifeTouch had footprints on the ground - blue for boys and red for girls - and instructed the girls to put their hand on their hip (again, see below) and the boys put their hands in their pockets. And this is the fun part: a group of kids took issue with this, went to their principal, who has apparently told LifeTouch that this is not to happen again at our school. 

Matching sweatshirts

Molly gets her soccer medal

Go Dolphins!

Pumpkins

Pumpkins were carved at last! Thank you Uncle Seth for braving the fearsome children and the even more fearsome pumpkin guts. I think everyone is pleased with the outcome. And, for the record, Clara said hers is a cat, even if it doesn't look like one. 

Story time!

Clara and Nana enjoying a book about Georgia O'Keefe.