I really should set my own blog as my homepage, if for no other reason than it would remind me to post every now and then. My job has been sucking up every spare hour for the last couple weeks, as I move between the urgent tailing phase of a new product moving from market launch to a subsequent product in the development phase. It’s very stressful, but at the same time, I really enjoy the feeling of moving forward. As a bonus, I’ll be spending a few days at the Photographic Marketing Association (PMA) trade show in Vegas in March, hawking our current product and checking out the competition. Jennifer will join me at some point, so we might be able to see a show or do something else fun.

I have been gearing up lately to take Tara’s two-year portrait. I say that as though she is on some sort of regular schedule, but I have not rigorously been doing portraits of either of the kids. I don’t think it has anything to do with the second-child syndrome so much as my own personal diminished snap count. Believe me, if I were taking pictures, they would be of my girls. In any case, I’m planning to take a picture of Tara in the next few weeks, trying to capture what a big girl she is now. She surprises me in her desire to be a big kid–I guess this is the effect of having an older sister. She does puzzles and plays with her toys like an older child. She has a tremendous vocabulary. And holy crap, she’s just a hoot. So how do I capture that in a photo? Wait.