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Ethan: There’s two wedding cakes!

Me: Do you know who’s wedding that is?

Ethan: Auntie Paula’s.

Me: How do you know that?

Ethan: Because I see her on the cake.

Me. Very good!

Ethan: And because you told me.

Anyway…great job picking out a cake topper, Paula!

So John showed me a neat trick with Photoshop on how to take pictures and make them look like there’s a toy something in them. My problem is that I don’t have lots of narrow focus pictures, since I’m a big fill-the-frame photographer.

To be filed under Problems I’m Not Sorry To Have:

Me: Ethan! Finish getting dressed, then you can keep reading!

When I took this picture, I was actually thinking of using it as a background. So I’m playing around with that to see what I can get. In addition, since I don’t have enough hobbies, I’m trying to learn CSS and Dreamweaver this week.

Did I mention I think I have ADHD myself?

Yesterday, I was able to sleep in ’till nearly 2 o’clock. Which means that when I got up, it was nice and warm and we went for a walk down the train tracks by the house. And whee!! Got to play with the new lens!

Since I haven’t written about it, I thought I should. Ethan and I watched this four times last night. I don’t want to mention how many times I watched it again while writing this.

Roughly a month ago, Ethan went to visit his pediatrician, and we had him diagnosed with ADHD. To start, we got a prescription for 10 mg of extended release Adderall, and an appointment to come back in a month to check his weight.

Well.

Being an amphetamine, Adderall can suppress hunger, hence it made a great diet drug. Unfortunately, it also means that it did the same to Ethan, who really does not need to be losing weight. Which is what he did, losing 4 pounds in a month. It’s also apparently lasting longer in him than it usually lasts in kids. For him, it wears off around bedtime, though he’s also been waking up during the night, which he’s rarely done since he started sleeping through the night. But, it’s also definitely helping him at school.

Apparently, Ethan takes after his mom a lot. As a comparison, I’m on 5 mg of Lexapro regularly. Whenever I tell a doctor that, they always look at me and say, “Really?! And that helps?!” Well, yes, it does. But I’m apparently really sensitive to medications. So is Ethan, as we’re finding out. But we don’t want to abandon the Adderall altogether, so we’re going to switch him over to 5 mg as well. We’re also going to switch to traditional release, as opposed to the extended release kind. For average kids, it’ll wear off around lunch time, so hopefully his will take him through the end of the school day.

From Higgins Armory in Worcester, MA.

One thing I really like about the new lens is the Image Stabilizer that’s in it. It works great for the pictures (no tripod here!). Doesn’t quite work as well for the cat.

Squee!! For my birthday, John got a new lens for the camera: a 55mm-250mm one I’ve been coveting. I heart the macro picture, but wanted something more…like something I could use to take pictures from across the room. To demonstrate, instead of taking one of the couple pictures I took from across the room, I actually got a really good shot of what I could do with a long lens like this.

That is one of our cats, Puffy. He’s sitting on a cooler (across the room!), and between us is one of our dining room chairs, which has a heart cutout. Completely would not have been able to do this with the standard 18mm-55mm lens we have now. And this was only at 100mm. I could have taken a “closer” picture!