Sunday, January 10, 2010

Ready for School!

Clara goes to Kita much longer than she used to, since I'm at work now too, but she still seems to like it! She brings a stuffed animal with her every day (for snuggling at nap time), and while we used to just pack her kitty, now she insists on having a different animal every day! Here she is on her way out the door with her giraffe:



We spent New Year's in Stralsund (to avoid the firework insanity of Berlin), and Clara had a lot of fun! On the way there on the train:



On New Year's Eve:



And in the snow that we got on New Year's Day:



Luckily for me, my new camera came right before we left, and I had a lot of fun over the break playing with it. I really like that I can adjust the exposure time, I've played with that a lot. With the full moon we had on New Year's Eve I took nighttime pictures that looked like the day! You can see the blue sky on this photo of someone's personal New Year's fireworks:


The other really great feature is that you can take three full quality images per second, which will be great for capturing Clara (and, I hope, the cats) at play. Then you can choose the best one of the set, or make an animated gif!

tickles!

I made the animation using ImageMagick: convert -delay 30 -loop 0 *jpg animated.gif

Oh how my daughter loves bread and jam! The cup and plate were her Christmas present from Tanja and me.

2 comments:

Christine said...

mmmm bread and jam and toddler... delicious! Kevin and I liked the animation loop, and the nerdiness has been noted.
Why is there no bread like those hard German rolls here?

Tanja said...

Oh yeah don't you just want to kiss the jam off those cheeks...

These rolls we actually bought frozen in a bag and then baked in our own oven - so they're not only crunchy and doughy, but also fresh and warm! =) Can't imagine how I dealt with 5 years without access to European bread.