Grocery shopping.

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I’m hating grocery shopping these days. Edda hates being trapped in her stroller. Vince runs off in some direction and starts pulling chocolate milk off the shelf. And the grocery store is so full of boxes of bad chinese desserts for Chinese New Year, that going down the lanes is incredibly frustrating. Here’s Vince sitting down in his school uniform enjoying KFC french fries while I wait to pay for my toilet paper.

And, my knitting…

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DSC01930, originally uploaded by dturnip1.

I gave up on the socks, it turned out I did the first one completely wrong, so I pulled both of them apart and so now I have no socks and just sock yarn. I’m knitting this basketweave scarf. Easy, no brainwork, just keeping myself occupied while Edda learns to walk and Vince plays computer games.

Dinner at the Delifrance.

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DSC01936, originally uploaded by dturnip1.

Today we went to the Singapore American School to meet with the head of the Early Childhood Center. She was very encouraging and helpful with the recommendations of therapy centers. We have an appointment for Saturday to start therapy! Hooray! Finally…

Camera Choices…

Well the body maybe the easy choice…

a D200 or a D70s

The D200 is new, sealed like the F bodies. Allows use of the apeture ring. of course it’s almost 2x more.

The more problematic choice is the lenses. The new DSLRs don’t have a 35mm size sensor. They have an APS size sensor, dubbed the DX format. This of course changes all the focal length factors by 1.5x. a normal lense for a DX format is about 33mm..

So the lens choices..

17-35mm f/2.8 ED-IF AF-S
12-24mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S DX
17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX
70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR

G – no apeture ring
DX – only for DX size sensor. Won’t cover the whole 35mm frame
VR – vibration reduction
AF-S – Motor is in the lens
ED-IF – lens is coated and only the glass on the inside of the lense moves when it focuses

I like the apeture ring on older Nikons lenses. only the D200 will let you use the apeture ring. I hate G lenses, tho I might have to buy the 70-200.

I’d like to get non DX lenses. I’d still like to shoot film. or at least the option to. The downside is that i’ll never get truely wide angle photos with out a DX lens.

the 17-55 might be the most useful lens for everyday shooting.

I lust after the 17-35. It’s the one lense that I would buy for a 35mm camera.

What is she saying?

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Edda complaining, originally uploaded by dturnip1.

Edda’s lack of communication skills really manifests itself in many ways. She doesn’t really turn her head in response to her name; when she bites someone and you yell “No!”, your displeasure doesn’t register in her brain; when she wakes up in an odd place (a friend’s house, the mall or even facing the wrong way on her bed), she’s frightened and I will stand 3 inches away from her face and say, “I’m here, mama’s here..” and she won’t realize that I’m there with her and that she doesn’t need to be scared. I’m afraid that these are all autistic tendencies.

I’ve been reading a few blogs about mothers raising autistic children and the stories and images give me pause.

Struggles..

So it’s been a struggle for me today. I’ve been seriously thinking that Edda may never be able to communicate with me in the way that I had imagined when I became a mother. It is a sobering and depressing thought. It’s funny about these mood swings, yesterday I was perfectly fine and OK with the fact that Edda’s going to be different from other kids, today I feel less strong. What happened between yesterday and today? Dunno.

We have an appoinment with a speech pathologist on Monday afternoon at the American School and then an assesment at the therapy place on Friday.