Comfort not
As 
helloheather has pointed out, Nate is having a very difficult time sleeping. And while she is up with him every hour or so, I generally wake up and then go back to sleep. Sometimes I will get up before her and try and comfort him but, with one exception, he rejects this and becomes more and more distraught.
I wish I understood why he was having so much difficulty staying asleep. I know that, right now, part of the problem is teething. He's getting at least two molars and a possible third tooth in at the same time. That cannot be fun.
And if his not sleeping were not enough, Nate still rejects almost all foods with textures. He simply will not tolerate anything but puréed "Stage 3" style foods. And perhaps we are sending the wrong messages, for when he has tried "chunks" of even easy to chew foods, not only has he coughed but has gagged and choked. This has caused us to whip him out of his chair to try and help him clear the object out. I wonder if such a reaction on our part is causing him to reject these foods outright. But what can be done? I cannot simply stand by while my child, with a panicked look on his face, gags.
Both behaviors are very stressful to me, though I believe the food-aversion will resolve itself over time. But the sleep problems, given that he has /never/ slept more than a few hours at a time since his birth, seem insurmountable. Nothing we have tried has helped in the least.
I look at the up-coming family camp out and the trip to Denver with much trepidation.
Chicago Public Radio – July 24th
This particular shot, for me, is a good example of pre-visualization with a bit of luck.
When I saw the empty containers stacked like this on the table, I knew I wanted a macro shot, with the background slightly out of focus (as much as can be with a digital point and shoot) and with the low-angle, just like you see. The women were in the frame, talking to the child selling fruit and I took the shot. But, because it's digital, and I wasn't sure of the composition, I adjusted very slightly and took another. Knowing the second shot was not as good as the first, I took a third. This all happened within a span of 7 seconds.
It's that third shot that you see here: a completed transaction and both women smiling. It was pure luck that I happened to catch them smiling at the same time. A lot of photographers will discount the value and importance of luck, believing that only those that control everything in the scene are true photographers. (These people are very full of themselves.) Luck (or whatever you want to call it) is an important part of how people make photographs. Yes, you can (and do) become instinctual about certain situations (especially those that are street photographers [which I'm not]) but luck still has a roll in the process.
I am very happy with how the shot turned out, and I was delighted to find that WBEZ had chosen this photo for their photo of the day today. Normally they send an email or notification via Flickr but today was a surprise.
See the larger version at my photoblog: http://cetan.org/index.php?showimage=363