Life at home with Lotty

Elizabeth has found her iPhone to be very valuable while nursing.  She can make calls as well as check email while nursing.  At least 2 fingers are involved in typing with one hand.  Note the blur of her fingers above the small screen.  Maybe the iPad would be nice for this, but the small size of the phone lets her put it just about anywhere and be able to use it one-handed.

Several people have asked us how max is doing with the new baby in the house.  He is really doing well.  He was very careful around Lotty when we first got home from the hospital, but we encouraged him to come over, sniff her and say hi.  He has aways furiously wagged his tail when he has been close to her.  Lotty is completely comfortable around Max, not knowing any different.  All the time spent with Max as a puppy teaching him that he was never allowed to bite people is now paying off as we have no worries that he will be gentle with her.  The one stuffed toy with the squeaker in it is another matter. That one probably will meet an untimely demise.

This last picture was an experiment. Lotty was pretty much asleep and hardly moving, so I (Paul) set the camera on the floor, stopped the aperture down to F22 with the ISO set at 100 and let the camera take about a 20 second exposure.  I guess this is more like the way portraits used to be taken.  In any case, the small aperture gave me a really wide depth of field, but the perspective in the shot still gives it a 3D feel.