We all woke up at seven this morning. For K, that was sleeping in half an hour; for me, that was my normal wake up time; for E, well, it depends; for L, it was definitely early. Our plan: a morning bike ride on a route that we repeat regularly to check for improvement. After mapping out a route, we headed out. I stuck with the Girl because I knew she would be zooming ahead; K stuck with the Boy because he just doesn’t have the stamina a thirteen-year-old possesses. L and I made the 7 km ride in 24 minutes, which means an average speed of 16 km/h. Not too bad for a then-fussy girl who didn’t even want to get out of bed to begin with.
After breakfast, the Boy and I set up his wooden train set to take some pictures: he wants to sell it (eBay? Facebook Marketplace? Craig’s List?) since he doesn’t play with it anymore.
Then we did the same with his Duplo blocks. “I haven’t touched those in years!” he proudly informed me. But after we just display them, we have to make something out of them.
One last time.
The afternoon passes with a lot of reading.
The Girl reads Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in its entirety for the second time. It’s the HP book I’ve agreed to read, so she wanted to get through it quickly so I could read it. I struggled through the end of Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot — a book I had high hopes for but which ultimately left me disappointed.
In the evening, the Girl played a game of chess with K while E and I went on another bike ride:
And throughout the day, I popped downstairs for the next lesson in the series on Photoshop compositing and ended this evening with this creation:
Next step — apply those newly-learned skills to pictures of my own kids…