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Leif just went down for his nap. It's 5:30PM.

Lately, he's been dropping his nap occasionally, which is just fine, because then he falls asleep at 8:00PM and everything is good. Unfortunately, when he does take a nap, he's often taking it late, and then staying up till midnight.

I'm debating whether to let him sleep for 15 minutes, or just wait and see if he's out for the night. I'll probably just go the path of least resistance, as I don't think I'll be able to keep him awake for another two hours if he isn't ready to get up.

Right now I'm a little annoyed with him because he put his mayonnaisy little paws all over the front of one of my nicest shirts, and now it has grease stains.

I just realized I haven't uploaded any new pictures since May. That's not good. The situation is now remedied, and there are new pictures up at http://www.ansible.org/~jess/leif/.

Leif is now 26.5 months, is 35.5 inches tall (though he was leaning away from the wall a little, so probably a bit taller), and 27.8 lbs. He's talking more and more, and occasionally coming out with sentences, but he's still not a huge talker. He understands just fine, though - he can identify things I had no idea he knew anything about. He uses the potty about 90% of the time at home, and 50% of the time when we're out, but now that the initial novelty has worn off he's resisting a bit. He loves riding his bike, reading books, coloring, and the old standbys - animals and trains. Now that the weather is getting cooler, he's getting to spend more time at the playground or otherwise outdoors, which makes him very happy. Half the time he eats whatever we put in front of him, the other half it's all about crackers with mayonnaise, and nothing else will do.

Right now (6:30) he's trying to decide whether he's awake or asleep. I'm not sure which I should be rooting for.

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Leif update, including new pictures.

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I've been going through iPhoto all evening, getting pictures posted, organizing, and so forth.

I have 4043 pictures, taking up over 4GB of disk space. Probably well over 3000 of these are of Leif.

My eventual goal is to take the best pictures, stick them into a PDF, upload them to Lulu, and then order printed copies for myself and as family Christmas presents. In theory, it should actually be cheaper than regular scrapbooking. I just have to actually get around to doing it.

I also need to go through and delete blurry shots, very similar shots of the same pose, and so forth.

The only problem is that this task gets more daunting with each picture we take.

I just get nervous about having all our pictures digital, even though intellectually I know that it's a lot safer than having only hardcopies. I mean, with under an hour's effort (and most of that devoted to learning how to work our DVD burner) and $10, I can send backup copies of the entire collection to multiple locations anywhere in the world. I have backups through February in multiple places already (actually, it's possible they all ended up here during the move. Must remedy that). But I'd still feel better having some printed copies anyways.

Leif fell asleep at 5:30PM today, and has basically been out since. He wasn't willing to stay awake another moment longer. I really hope that by some miracle he's able to sleep until a semi-reasonable hour. 6:30AM would be tolerable - I've been waking up around then anyways. I can always hope.

It's always weird listening to music you haven't bothered listening to in ages and suddenly having a very vivid flashback to another time listening to it. In this case, the DC Undernet Opermeet in 1999. How random. (Even stranger, I'm not 100% sure I even had this particular CD along on that trip.)