Love And Chicken

Pardon the belated entry ... my time at the computer has been one-handed and my brain is lagging about a week behind.

Friday was our anniversary. We'd already gone on our anniversary date a few weeks ago, just to make sure we got one in. But The Grand Lunar surprised me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers!

Red tulips and deep blue irises (iri?) ... and an "I love you" balloon which almost got stolen as a toy, but i reclaimed as mine. :) The flowers came as buds, so it was nice to watch them unfold. I didn't take pictures of the unfolding, but I wanted to.

i am one very very blessed woman. I love you, Grand Lunar! Thank you for 16 wonderful years, 7 beautiful children, and a lovely surprise bouquet.

In other Love news, here's Tobi-wan holding his baby sister ... he's so gentle and attentive!

In "Chicken" news ... I have been thinking of trying to take some of those artsy fartsy sleeping newborn in a basket pictures. Only... I'm chicken. One, because I'm not really that great of a photographer, I don't really know how to deal with low light, no flashes, wiggly babies, things like that. And two, because I don't really have a photographer's studio type set up, with soft lighting, mysteriously blank rooms, and a plethora of baskets and fuzzy blankets. Plus our house is cold, and I don't want to freeze the baby.

Speaking of the baby, we're going the with blog nickname of "Seven" - since she's the seventh (of nine in our whole family, even) ... so ... if you happen to refer to her in your own writings or comments, if you would use her blog name rather than her real name, we'll keep her real name between those of us in the know, from now on. I'll be going back and editing out the real name from everywhere that's within my control.

Thanks!