Roblog

I have uploaded a new set of pictures to my website today. It's been a long time coming, so it reflects three months' worth of pictures, including some pictures I alluded to in earlier posts.

I stayed up late last night to finish the most recent Harry Potter book: The Half-Blood Prince. I hadn't intended to stay up until I finished it, at around 12:30 AM, but I did. I had dabbled in the book starting yesterday morning, but I pretty much read straight through starting at 8:00 PM. I think it was more of a cliffhanger than any of the other previous books, and as such I'm very eager to see the resolution in the final book when it comes out (2008?).

It's funny how we came to get the book though.

My sister's first child was born yesterday morning at 3:15 AM: Molly Elizabeth. Almost one month early, she was already a healthy 6 lbs 12 ounces. It sounds like she was just ready. Her Daddy was kind enough to send some pictures out already - seeing the cute, tired baby made me realize how hard it is to be born.

We can't wait to see little Molly in October!

Amanda draws a lot nowadays. Usually it's either people or letters (what she writes often looks like Hawaiian). Sometimes, the people she draws are crying, and have very obvious tears:

When I see these pictures, I usually think of the tests psychologists conduct on children who have had traumatic events in their lives. They often use drawings to try to coax the emotional states of the children out of them. I look at these drawings with people (usually it's herself) with copius tears flowing down their faces, and wonder what conculsions a psychologist might be tempted to draw from that.

It's just a phase, though. Already she's more often drawing "spiders" with dozens of legs than tearful people.