The Lost Balloon

Before I get started, I want to share that I got a new lens for my camera today. Why you say? Because I was jealous. Jealous of my friends who brag about their 50 mm lens. So I got it today after an email from Nicki pushed me over the edge. It is going to take quite a bit of practice on my part before I feel comfortable with this lens. Because with the Nikon D40, you have to manually focus a 50 mm lens - which is not an easy thing to do when your primary subject is a highly active 2 year old. Most of my pictures today were soft, but a few turned out really nicely. I think this might be the case until I get a higher quality camera. Someday I will get a fancier camera that can auto focus with this lens, but for now I will just dream......

Also, thanks so much for all of the awesome comments about the train. Seriously, you guys rock and I have found several good ones on Craigslist for cheap with lots and lots of pieces and a table. I would have never thought of that.

The background on these pictures is that Lucy got a balloon tonight. She LOVES balloons so she was so pleased with herself and her balloon. I tied it around her wrist loosely because I knew that if she lost it she would be devastated. Out we went to practice with the new lens. She was happy for a while to play and frolic about with the balloon around her wrist. But then she became determined to get it off. I kept telling her that she would have to hold on to it tightly if she took it off her wrist because it would fly away and be gone forever. She listened for a while, but then off it flew. The look on her face was so sad, and of course I caught it on film. Her little eyes welled up with tears and she kept saying, "Come back, boon! Come back!" I told her we would just have to watch it fly away and tell it bye bye. She did and then the rest of the time we were outside she would look up to the sky and say, "Boon, boon, are you?? No see you." Then she would jump and say, "I reach boon." Pretty pitiful.

I will let the pictures do the talking.






Isn't this the saddest face you have ever seen?


She was trying to find the balloon here.

She finally accepted the fact that the balloon was gone.

Oh well, guess I better get back to my normal nightly business - coloring my feet with chalk.

Such pretty light in her hair.

Really cool light in her eyes.

She wants to throw all of her chalk pieces and watch it break. Good thing I bought the super cheap chalk on the dollar row at Target. She knows I don't prefer she throws it, so this is the look she gives me to say, "I am throwing it anyway Momma."