baybeasts

This last week, we have forgone our customary Evening of hot drink, dessert and tv in order to work on a Very Important Project. This Project is not only important, it has been fiendishly difficult, involving much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands. It is the Great Photo-Culling Project Stage 1: Arlo.

Not long after Huey was born, we received two photo albums from a friend in Japan. They are covered in kimono material, with the boys names and birthdays embroidered on them:

We decided that we would fill these albums with the very best photos from their first year of life. It’s a nice idea, yes? But we have taken over 4500 photos in the year since Arlo was born (and that’s just the ones we kept - we’ve probably deleted the same number again of blurry and bad shots). And each photo album will fit about 100 photos. Gnashing of teeth ensues.

But we did it! We painstakingly picked out our favourite 100 or so photos of Arlo, and have sent them off to be printed. But one last obstacle remained. The very first page of the album is reserved for a 8″ x 6″ portrait, and bugger me if bean and I couldn’t agree on which photo it should be. Solution? A photo shoot! 150 photos later, and we have our winning shot. Isn’t he divine?

It’s rather terrifying to think that in just three and half months we will have to go through this whole process again with Huey. The digital age is a curse, I tell you.

(Coming soon to baybeasts: eight months of Huey, and one year [ONE YEAR!] of Arlo)