* poinsettias, which seem to be blinding but not deadly

I’m flat out. Preparin’, gradin’, proctorin’ – I’m straight out pimpin’ Sarakham style, baby. baby:

@ the fish sanctuary: A better photo of it:

This totally does not look like him, but the camera catches funny faces sometimes.

Maxie and daddy performing synchronized upper lip balancing. This is the only photo we took of him during the period he has been afflicted with the rash from roseola. Even so, this is a couple days before the rash peaked and my anti-noise filter (Noise Ninja) actually wiped it quite effectively. One of the only tricks I could perform as a kid was to curl my upper lip up far enough to block my nostrils. This was extremely handy when playing underwater and I considered it a kind of superpower (hey, when you’re a kid having even the lamest of supernormal abilities is pretty cool). Hopefully I can pass this…

…and is most able to blackmail you with tears to get one. *this photo is pre-roseola. He still bears the marks of the chosen one. //////////////////////// Previous colors in this series: red red max orange max sepia max coppermine max blue max

Max is recovering slowly but surely and the red spots all over his face and body are steadily disappearing. It’s still so hard to watch him suffer from the bouts of itchiness and teething that hit once in a while, but things are better than they were before. At least he can sleep for several hours at a time now. He still has a runny nose but we took him off all of the meds the pediatrician put him on because the congestion is just a nuisance and not really affecting his breathing at night anymore. So it seems he is out of the woods. Hell, with roseola perhaps he…