Hey Pitcher - look at me......

There's a cheer that my softball girls do when they are trying to distract the pitcher....
It goes:

Hey Pitcher - look at me,
I'm a monkey in a tree!
oooh ah ah, oooh ah ah

Then they jump and climb on the fence and look freakishly funny. I can't be drinking anything when they do that cheer - it cracks me up.
So naturally - little sister loves that cheer, and when I went out back to get some shots, that is what she was doing:
So for the sake of my exercise, I took what I could get and here is a 100% crop of her eyes:


Hairy Boy (and as you will notice, he isn't so hairy since I buzzed him last night) was not to be outdone by his sister. He doesn't bother singing the cheer - he prefers to just act like a monkey and hopes I'll give him bananas.
But he moved around too much for me to get manual focus. Once he settled down, this is what I got:

Dirty face and all. I must have cropped this photo a million different ways, and none of them looked very good. Maybe that will be my next challenge - creative cropping and composition.




Anyway - here is his 100% crop of the eyes:


LegoQueen was much too sophisticated to take a picture. She looked tired too - red rimmed eyes, bags under the eyes. I took a picture and she looked horrid. I will save that one for when I want to really work on my Photoshop skills - YIKES!

So those were my attempts for today. We didn't go to the park today - I opted to catch up on my housework since I will be gone on Thursday. DramaQueen has another dentist appointment. Its an earlier appointment, so no worries - I am sure we will make it to Park Day to visit with friends.

Today I was browsing my cousin's MySpace, and he had a picture of my dad from last year's fair. I looked at it, and my heart was incredibly heavy with sadness, but I didn't cry. You know what my first thought was?

"I wonder if I can get my hands on the original and make it look decent, so I can print it for myself"

The picture is grainy, underexposed, and if I didn't already see pictures of my dad at the fair, I would have not known it was him in this picture. I did try to fix it a bit and this is what I got:


Its obvious that I lightened him and then erased the background back in, but at least I can tell its my dad!
I also can envision myself grabbing a comb and smoothing the cowlick on top of his head. I was forever fixing his hair when I saw him - it would never stay down!