Douglas - Snapshot Chronicles

Doug’s visit with Grandmum

08.02.2007 by Susan Getgood //

Douglas had a great time visiting with his grandmother in Andover. They visited Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth NH, where this picture was taken, and the coastal town of Newburyport MA.

He also had plenty of time to play computer games with his uncle. And care for his WebKinz. Funny, he had two when he left, a pug and a chihuahua, and somehow a little gorilla came home with him 🙂

More on WebKinz and how kids interact with social networks later this summer, but my experience is not that different from Jeneane’s so far.

More of Doug’s pics here.

The last day of summer camp

07.21.2007 by Susan Getgood //

The day camp Douglas attends every summer closes out each session with a performance by all the campers. Doug’s group performed a dance to the music of the Lion King. Note Doug’s improvisations.

So yesterday, I said I didn’t think I’d use Scrapblog much. Figures that today Doug would reach an important milestone that merited the Scrapblog treatment: his first lobster dinner of his very own in a restaurant. We went into Boston today, popped in quickly to the NE Aquarium, and then took a Harbor Cruise to Charlestown where we briefly toured a destroyer and the USS Constitution. Afterward, we went to Legal Seafoods for a late lunch, early dinner:

Scrapblog link: http://www.scrapblog.com/sgetgood/6B7BE503-ACD3

The weird thing about Scrapblog was that today I could not find a simple direction to “generate embed code.” Instead I had to muck around with the different publish options until I found one that would work with my WordPress blog.

On another note, Doug and I both took our new HP cameras today. I was a bit disconcerted at not having a viewfinder, even though we really don’t use them that much with snapshot cameras, but overall, pleased with the quality of the photos. You can see the whole set from the day on Flickr.

Doug’s principal goal was to get a good picture of a jelly fish. Which he did.

Tags: Boston, Scrapblog