{"id":12,"date":"2020-09-21T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.0.253\/wordpress\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-08-23T23:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:59:43","slug":"chapter-1-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"Chapter AA:  Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P4.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P4.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P4.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Stay by the Bay<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"right-sidebar\" style=\"border-color:#000009;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2F323C;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Hills<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">\r\n<div id=\"attachment_792\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-792\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-792\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/up-marin-keeler_slant2-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/up-marin-keeler_slant2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/up-marin-keeler_slant2.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If only the road were level.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>While I had visited Berkeley when deciding where to go for graduate school, I really didn&#8217;t appreciate how mountainous it is. Thus, when we moved to the Hill-Road house with a U-Haul towing an old VW Beetle, I looked at the map for the easiest way to get there. If you zoom out a few times on the map, you&#8217;ll see Marin Ave to the northwest. Marin Ave., being straight, seemed like a great route to get to Grizzly Peak avoiding the labyrinth of all the other roads. Being from southeastern Michigan, I never considered the elevation change; a road called Grizzly Peak should have clued me in. At the time, I didn&#8217;t know that Marin Ave. had been constructed as a trolley route and was a road no one really used because it went straight up the mountain, roughly 700 feet over about 0.8 miles, a 25% (30% maximum) grade. It is the steepest road in the SF Bay Area and legendary with hardcore cyclists. Going up is rough on a car&#8217;s clutch\/torque-converter and going down is rough on the brakes, so people rarely used it.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_793\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-793\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/view-from-creston1-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/view-from-creston1-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/view-from-creston1.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the top of Marin Ave. over the San Francisco Bay<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>We got maybe a fourth of the way up the road before it was clear we needed to rethink the route. Unfortunately, this was 1993, and we didn&#8217;t have a detailed map of the area. Thus, we turned off Marin, unhitched the car, and continued up separately. I don&#8217;t recall the details, but I suspect I drove the car because it had a manual transmission. There was a stop sign at every intersection, and starting from a stop on a 25% grade with a clutch is quite tricky. I either used some fancy footwork with one foot on both the brake and gas pedals or, more likely, used the emergency brake. <\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>The time I spent in the San Francisco Bay Area&#8211;in and around Berkeley&#8211;was probably some of the most enjoyable of my life. The first semester was stressful for a few reasons. First, I had never lived in an urban area, especially with a population density as high as it was. It took a long time to become accustomed to everything you wanted to do taking more time than you thought it would. Traffic was <em>always<\/em> a nightmare both on the expressways and the surface streets. Parking was always a problem; I had never had to circle a grocery store parking lot for 15 minutes to park. Lines everywhere were always extremely long. The DMV was a nightmare but lines in grocery stores usually extended down the aisles. At first, this was extremely frustrating, but there was nothing you could do about it. You had to simply learn to give yourself extra time and not stress too much about getting things done quickly.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 10pt;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d305.0387930650031!2d-122.25172803072934!3d37.887656134677684!2m3!1f0!2f39.28327254235046!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f35!3m3!1m2!1s0x80857c11d49cb281%3A0x9da8ebec249221a1!2s37%20Hill%20Rd%2C%20Berkeley%2C%20CA%2094708!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1616011007189!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"400\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p>The other stress when we first moved to Berkeley was the living situation. My aunt had a friend whose mother, Alicemary, rented part of her house in the Berkeley Hills to students and was looking for a new tenant. The house wasn&#8217;t particularly nice, but it was on a million-dollar lot at the very top of the Berkeley Hills. Grizzly Peak ran along the crest of the mountain, and Hill Road rose above it. Our next-door neighbor (in the house to the southeast that looks more like a commercial building) was Donald Glazer, a Nobel Prize-winning physics professor. What isn&#8217;t particularly clear from the map is the topology. 37 Hill Road is at an elevation of almost 1200 feet, and the bus stop to the west is nearly 100 feet below. Walking up the hill from the bus stop was pretty good exercise.<\/p>\r\n<p>The deal was that we would take care of the property, house, and three dogs in exchange for not paying rent as Alicemary was too old to maintain the property. Taking care of the property was not an easy job. We were asked to rejuvenate and maintain the elaborate tiered garden that is now a grassy slope to the west of the house; it was completely overgrown with weeds and brush when we arrived. Not only were the plants all dead, but the wooden walkways that zigzagged down the hill and the watering system were falling apart. It really needed a professional gardener and landscaper to redo everything completely. We tried, but nothing we did seemed to be enough. We also learned that one of the dogs wasn&#8217;t house trained and would pee all over the house. This prompted the other dogs to do the same. I&#8217;d never house trained a dog, and Rita tried her best, but he&#8217;d been peeing in the house for so long that it was tough to change his behavior. I wonder if he ever got house trained.<\/p>\r\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-822 .fg-image { width: 640px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-image-viewer foogallery-link-image foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-image-viewer fg-ready fg-dark fg-border-medium fg-round-medium fg-shadow-outline fg-shadow-inset-medium fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom fg-no-js\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-822\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;src&quot;,&quot;srcset&quot;:&quot;srcset&quot;,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;loop&quot;:true,&quot;autoplay&quot;:0}}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fiv-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-inner-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/37HillRoad.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Street view of 37 Hill Road.\" data-caption-desc=\"A contemporary single-story residence features a large garage door and minimalist architecture, situated above a landscaped garden with red flowers and stone pathways. The surrounding area includes mature trees and distant hills under a clear blue sky.\" data-attachment-id=\"810\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/03\/37HillRoad\/4169823944.jpg\" alt=\"Modern white house with garage on hillside overlooking valley\" title=\"Street view of 37 Hill Road.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Street view of 37 Hill Road.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A contemporary single-story residence features a large garage door and minimalist architecture, situated above a landscaped garden with red flowers and stone pathways. The surrounding area includes mature trees and distant hills under a clear blue sky.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ViewFromBerkeleyHills.png\" data-caption-title=\"View from Hill Road looking over San Francisco Bay.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows an elevated landscape view featuring a modern building on the left, dense greenery in the foreground, and a sprawling urban area extending toward a large body of water with distant hills. Two white L-shaped markers are visible among the trees in the mid-ground.\" data-attachment-id=\"812\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/03\/ViewFromBerkeleyHills\/2336792481.png\" alt=\"A view from Berkeley Hills overlooking a city and bay with two white L-shaped markers in the foreground\" title=\"View from Hill Road looking over San Francisco Bay.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">View from Hill Road looking over San Francisco Bay.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows an elevated landscape view featuring a modern building on the left, dense greenery in the foreground, and a sprawling urban area extending toward a large body of water with distant hills. Two white L-shaped markers are visible among the trees in the mid-ground.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/dd71c86f8327be42497a67e392a2ccf9-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"View from Hill Road over San Francisco Bay.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a wide-angle landscape featuring a densely built urban area in the lower left, a large body of water in the center, and a distant city skyline under a cloudy sky. A bridge spans part of the waterway, and green hills occupy the immediate foreground.\" data-attachment-id=\"814\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/03\/dd71c86f8327be42497a67e392a2ccf9-scaled\/2457631866.jpg\" alt=\"A distant view of a city skyline across a bay, with hills in the foreground and clouds overhead.\" title=\"View from Hill Road over San Francisco Bay.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">View from Hill Road over San Francisco Bay.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a wide-angle landscape featuring a densely built urban area in the lower left, a large body of water in the center, and a distant city skyline under a cloudy sky. A bridge spans part of the waterway, and green hills occupy the immediate foreground.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-prev\" title=\"Prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">3<\/span><\/label>\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-next\" title=\"Next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n<p>Unfortunately, between the time we agreed to this deal and moved in, Alicemary&#8217;s health got much worse. When we first arrived, she was in a nursing home but came home soon after. Thus, taking care of Alicemary became part of our (i.e., mostly Rita&#8217;s) job. Obviously, Rita could not provide the needed medical care, so the family hired in-home nurses. Things from the house then started disappearing. It was very awkward because it seemed we were being blamed for this, either for actually taking the stuff or for not preventing it. I don&#8217;t remember the timing, but before the end of my first semester at UC-Berkeley, Alicemary passed away. I suspect this may have been in October or November. After that, Alicemary&#8217;s daughter essentially moved in. Her other daughter&#8217;s ex-husband then effectively moved in. Yes, it was an odd situation, and it was clear that Rita and I needed to find a new place. One good thing about living in the Berkeley Hills was that it allowed us to learn the area and make a much more informed decision about places to live. Thus, shortly thereafter, we moved to an apartment in a city just north of Berkeley, El Cerrito.<\/p>\r\n<p>Rita found a job at a Stride Rite store in a nearby shopping center. The apartment was very close to a BART (subway) stop, so I commuted to school that way most of the time. Fortunately, at this point, I had found an adviser and had a desk in a lab. Thus, I could basically treat school like work. I recall that we lived here for about two years before getting a spot in &#8220;family housing.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>Northern California is a great place to live if you&#8217;re not trying to raise a family. Thus, as a student with no children, I was able to take full advantage of the area. Rita and I went on three whitewater rafting trips; two down the south fork of the American River and an overnight trip down the Klamath River. The Klamath River trip was great as we explored some beautiful areas near the river when we stopped to make camp. This trip was at the end of August 1997, as I recall hearing Princess Diana had died on the trip home. We went to wine country (Napa and Sonoma Valleys) a couple of times. We camped and explored the area around Big Sur on three or four occasions. We explored Monterrey, Carmel, and Santa Cruz. We went to Yosemite and camped near Mammoth Mountain, Mono Lake, and Lake Tahoe. We spent a few days during the winter near Donner Lake (near Lake Tahoe) in a cabin owned by my thesis adviser. I&#8217;d never seen so much snow; the cabin spent much of the winter nearly entirely buried.<\/p>\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P5.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P5.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P5.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Son<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-1866 .fg-image { width: 640px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-image-viewer foogallery-link-image foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-image-viewer fg-ready fg-dark fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom fg-no-js\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-1866\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;src&quot;,&quot;srcset&quot;:&quot;srcset&quot;,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;loop&quot;:true,&quot;autoplay&quot;:0}}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fiv-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-inner-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/238.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby with oversized glasses.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows an infant with a shaved head wearing thick-rimmed glasses and a light-colored long-sleeved shirt. The child is seated against a plain dark backdrop, resting hands on a surface with striped fabric visible at the bottom edge.\" data-attachment-id=\"1823\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/238.jpg\" alt=\"A baby wearing large glasses and a white shirt sitting in front of a dark background.\" title=\"Baby with oversized glasses.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby with oversized glasses.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows an infant with a shaved head wearing thick-rimmed glasses and a light-colored long-sleeved shirt. The child is seated against a plain dark backdrop, resting hands on a surface with striped fabric visible at the bottom edge.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_49b1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Child in festive holiday costume sitting on a sofa.\" data-caption-desc=\"A toddler is seated on a dark-colored couch, wearing a blue outfit that includes a long-sleeved shirt with cartoon graphics and a matching hat featuring red antlers. The child has light skin and short hair visible beneath the hat.\" data-attachment-id=\"1865\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_49b1.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing a blue hat with red antlers and a matching blue shirt sits on a couch.\" title=\"Child in festive holiday costume sitting on a sofa.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Child in festive holiday costume sitting on a sofa.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A toddler is seated on a dark-colored couch, wearing a blue outfit that includes a long-sleeved shirt with cartoon graphics and a matching hat featuring red antlers. The child has light skin and short hair visible beneath the hat.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_46e0.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A candid black and white family portrait featuring three individuals.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a man wearing glasses looking upward while holding a baby wrapped in a blanket or hooded garment. To his right stands a smiling boy wearing a dark t-shirt with a graphic design on it. The photo is monochrome and appears to be taken indoors.\" data-attachment-id=\"1864\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_46e0.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a man holding a baby wearing a hat, with another boy smiling in the background.\" title=\"A candid black and white family portrait featuring three individuals.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A candid black and white family portrait featuring three individuals.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a man wearing glasses looking upward while holding a baby wrapped in a blanket or hooded garment. To his right stands a smiling boy wearing a dark t-shirt with a graphic design on it. The photo is monochrome and appears to be taken indoors.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_Caleb7_20_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A woman smiles while holding two babies, one of whom is playfully hiding behind a large white plate.\" data-caption-desc=\"A woman with dark hair tied back smiles broadly at the camera while holding two young children. The child on the left holds a large white circular object in front of their face, partially obscuring it, while the child on the right looks toward the camera. In the background, two men sit against a wooden fence.\" data-attachment-id=\"1863\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_Caleb7_20_1024\/557373906.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman holds two babies; one baby holds a large white circular object in front of his face.\" title=\"A woman smiles while holding two babies, one of whom is playfully hiding behind a large white plate.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A woman smiles while holding two babies, one of whom is playfully hiding behind a large white plate.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A woman with dark hair tied back smiles broadly at the camera while holding two young children. The child on the left holds a large white circular object in front of their face, partially obscuring it, while the child on the right looks toward the camera. In the background, two men sit against a wooden fence.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb12_13_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Toddler sits on garden steps surrounded by colorful flowers.\" data-caption-desc=\"A toddler with short blond hair is seated on weathered wooden steps outdoors. The child wears a long-sleeved striped shirt under denim overalls, white socks, and dark shoes with red accents. They hold a small yellow object in one hand and appear to be looking down at it. Behind them are green bushes and tulips in yellow, red, and orange, along with purple grape hyacinths.\" data-attachment-id=\"1862\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb12_13_1024\/2693368489.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with blond hair wearing striped shirt and blue overalls sitting on wooden steps in a garden holding small yellow object.\" title=\"Toddler sits on garden steps surrounded by colorful flowers.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Toddler sits on garden steps surrounded by colorful flowers.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A toddler with short blond hair is seated on weathered wooden steps outdoors. The child wears a long-sleeved striped shirt under denim overalls, white socks, and dark shoes with red accents. They hold a small yellow object in one hand and appear to be looking down at it. Behind them are green bushes and tulips in yellow, red, and orange, along with purple grape hyacinths.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb12_5_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A woman holds a baby dressed in formal attire, including a top hat.\" data-caption-desc=\"An older woman with short gray hair is seated indoors, holding a baby on her lap. The baby wears a black top hat and a light-colored ruffled outfit over dark clothing. A blue patterned blanket or fabric is visible in the foreground.\" data-attachment-id=\"1861\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb12_5_1024\/3305830359.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman with gray hair holds a baby wearing a top hat and beige outfit.\" title=\"A woman holds a baby dressed in formal attire, including a top hat.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A woman holds a baby dressed in formal attire, including a top hat.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An older woman with short gray hair is seated indoors, holding a baby on her lap. The baby wears a black top hat and a light-colored ruffled outfit over dark clothing. A blue patterned blanket or fabric is visible in the foreground.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb11_7_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A man holds a baby while a cat rests on his lap.\" data-caption-desc=\"A person with glasses wearing a dark blue long-sleeved shirt is seated in a dark upholstered armchair. They are holding a swaddled infant in their left arm, and a grey tabby cat is lying across their lap. The background includes a plain wall and part of a white door frame.\" data-attachment-id=\"1859\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb11_7_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue shirt sits in a dark chair holding a baby and a cat.\" title=\"A man holds a baby while a cat rests on his lap.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man holds a baby while a cat rests on his lap.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A person with glasses wearing a dark blue long-sleeved shirt is seated in a dark upholstered armchair. They are holding a swaddled infant in their left arm, and a grey tabby cat is lying across their lap. The background includes a plain wall and part of a white door frame.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb11_4_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A nurse cares for a newborn in an incubator at a hospital.\" data-caption-desc=\"A woman wearing a blue apron over a white shirt stands beside a medical incubator containing a newborn infant. The room is filled with medical equipment, including monitors and tubing, suggesting an intensive care environment.\" data-attachment-id=\"1858\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb11_4_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A healthcare worker in a blue apron tends to a baby in an incubator inside a hospital room.\" title=\"A nurse cares for a newborn in an incubator at a hospital.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A nurse cares for a newborn in an incubator at a hospital.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A woman wearing a blue apron over a white shirt stands beside a medical incubator containing a newborn infant. The room is filled with medical equipment, including monitors and tubing, suggesting an intensive care environment.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb10_29_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A joyful child celebrates with arms raised high while standing on stairs.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with short hair and round glasses is standing on wooden steps, wearing a green patterned onesie with fruit designs. The child has both arms raised in the air and is smiling broadly. Behind the child is a brick wall and part of a vacuum cleaner to the right.\" data-attachment-id=\"1857\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb10_29_1024\/1219166298.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing glasses and a patterned onesie stands on wooden steps with arms raised in the air.\" title=\"A joyful child celebrates with arms raised high while standing on stairs.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A joyful child celebrates with arms raised high while standing on stairs.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with short hair and round glasses is standing on wooden steps, wearing a green patterned onesie with fruit designs. The child has both arms raised in the air and is smiling broadly. Behind the child is a brick wall and part of a vacuum cleaner to the right.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb9_22_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Men working on a wooden playhouse in a yard.\" data-caption-desc=\"A wooden playhouse with a blue, green, and yellow striped roof stands in a grassy backyard. Two men are visible near the structure; one appears to be adjusting or inspecting part of the frame while another looks on. A small yellow slide is partially visible at the bottom foreground.\" data-attachment-id=\"1856\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb9_22_1024\/2466990739.jpg\" alt=\"Two men standing beside a wooden playhouse with a striped roof in a backyard.\" title=\"Men working on a wooden playhouse in a yard.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Men working on a wooden playhouse in a yard.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A wooden playhouse with a blue, green, and yellow striped roof stands in a grassy backyard. Two men are visible near the structure; one appears to be adjusting or inspecting part of the frame while another looks on. A small yellow slide is partially visible at the bottom foreground.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb8_7_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby in a white onesie resting on a dark background.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows an infant lying on their back on a dark, textured surface. The baby is dressed in a light-colored, long-sleeved onesie with small pink and blue patterns. To the left of the baby is a folded piece of fabric or blanket with a plaid pattern in pastel colors.\" data-attachment-id=\"1855\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb8_7_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A baby wearing a white patterned onesie lying on a dark surface next to a folded blanket.\" title=\"Baby in a white onesie resting on a dark background.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby in a white onesie resting on a dark background.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows an infant lying on their back on a dark, textured surface. The baby is dressed in a light-colored, long-sleeved onesie with small pink and blue patterns. To the left of the baby is a folded piece of fabric or blanket with a plaid pattern in pastel colors.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb7_8_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A man uses a computer while a young child stands on his shoulders nearby.\" data-caption-desc=\"An indoor scene shows a man seated at a desk using an older CRT monitor, with a small child in a red shirt and yellow pants standing on his shoulders. The child reaches toward books on a wooden bookshelf that also holds various papers and objects. A calendar hangs on the wall to the right.\" data-attachment-id=\"1854\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb7_8_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits at a computer with a toddler on his shoulders reaching for books on a shelf.\" title=\"A man uses a computer while a young child stands on his shoulders nearby.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man uses a computer while a young child stands on his shoulders nearby.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An indoor scene shows a man seated at a desk using an older CRT monitor, with a small child in a red shirt and yellow pants standing on his shoulders. The child reaches toward books on a wooden bookshelf that also holds various papers and objects. A calendar hangs on the wall to the right.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb6_8_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Three men and a baby pose together in an indoor setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"A man in a striped shirt holds a baby while two other men stand beside him. The room contains a wooden table and framed artwork on the wall.\" data-attachment-id=\"1853\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb6_8_1024.jpg\" alt=\"Three men standing indoors with one holding a baby; no oversized bank check visible.\" title=\"Three men and a baby pose together in an indoor setting.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Three men and a baby pose together in an indoor setting.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A man in a striped shirt holds a baby while two other men stand beside him. The room contains a wooden table and framed artwork on the wall.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb5_22_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Toddler standing barefoot on carpet facing away from camera.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing only a white diaper stands with their back to the camera, leaning against a dark blue upholstered sofa. The room has patterned textiles and wooden furniture visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1852\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb5_22_1024\/2684267636.jpg\" alt=\"A toddler in a diaper standing with back to camera on blue couch\" title=\"Toddler standing barefoot on carpet facing away from camera.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Toddler standing barefoot on carpet facing away from camera.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing only a white diaper stands with their back to the camera, leaning against a dark blue upholstered sofa. The room has patterned textiles and wooden furniture visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb5_11_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A baby sits in a high chair with a tuft of hair on top.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a young child seated in a blue plastic high chair with patterned fabric. The child has short, light-colored hair styled upward at the crown and is wearing a white long-sleeved garment. Their hands are clasped together in front of them.\" data-attachment-id=\"1851\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb5_11_1024\/1469575981.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with light hair sitting in a blue high chair looking forward.\" title=\"A baby sits in a high chair with a tuft of hair on top.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A baby sits in a high chair with a tuft of hair on top.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a young child seated in a blue plastic high chair with patterned fabric. The child has short, light-colored hair styled upward at the crown and is wearing a white long-sleeved garment. Their hands are clasped together in front of them.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb4_34_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling toddler in a patterned jumpsuit sits on stairs.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with short hair and round glasses is sitting on wooden steps, wearing a blue patterned onesie with dark cuffs and white socks. The background includes a brick wall and a doorway.\" data-attachment-id=\"1850\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb4_34_1024\/3022985977.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing glasses and a patterned onesie sits on wooden steps indoors.\" title=\"A smiling toddler in a patterned jumpsuit sits on stairs.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A smiling toddler in a patterned jumpsuit sits on stairs.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with short hair and round glasses is sitting on wooden steps, wearing a blue patterned onesie with dark cuffs and white socks. The background includes a brick wall and a doorway.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb4_27_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A man works with a tool on the floor while a young child watches.\" data-caption-desc=\"An adult male wearing glasses, a white graphic t-shirt, and blue jeans is kneeling on a wooden surface. He holds a silver metal tool in his hands near a long piece of lumber. A small toddler in a dark blue outfit sits to the left, looking down at the floor.\" data-attachment-id=\"1849\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb4_27_1024\/2205830718.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white t-shirt and jeans kneels on a wooden floor, holding a metal tool while a small child in blue clothing sits nearby.\" title=\"A man works with a tool on the floor while a young child watches.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man works with a tool on the floor while a young child watches.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An adult male wearing glasses, a white graphic t-shirt, and blue jeans is kneeling on a wooden surface. He holds a silver metal tool in his hands near a long piece of lumber. A small toddler in a dark blue outfit sits to the left, looking down at the floor.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb3_28_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler interacts with a red tricycle indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing glasses and a dark green outfit is bending over a red plastic tricycle on a beige carpet. The room contains a large black television set in the background, along with various household items and furniture.\" data-attachment-id=\"1848\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb3_28_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A young child in a green outfit bends over a red tricycle on a carpeted floor near a television.\" title=\"A toddler interacts with a red tricycle indoors.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A toddler interacts with a red tricycle indoors.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing glasses and a dark green outfit is bending over a red plastic tricycle on a beige carpet. The room contains a large black television set in the background, along with various household items and furniture.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb3_5_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A cute baby dressed in a stylish outfit with a hat and glasses.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a young child seated on a brown upholstered couch. The child is wearing round wire-rimmed glasses, a black turtleneck sweater, and a beige textured vest or jumper. A black wide-brimmed hat sits atop the child&#039;s head. The child has light hair and is smiling slightly at the camera.\" data-attachment-id=\"1847\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb3_5_1024\/3541682661.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling baby wearing a black hat, round glasses, and a beige textured vest over a black long-sleeve shirt sitting on a brown couch.\" title=\"A cute baby dressed in a stylish outfit with a hat and glasses.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A cute baby dressed in a stylish outfit with a hat and glasses.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a young child seated on a brown upholstered couch. The child is wearing round wire-rimmed glasses, a black turtleneck sweater, and a beige textured vest or jumper. A black wide-brimmed hat sits atop the child's head. The child has light hair and is smiling slightly at the camera.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb2_27_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Man and child working together on a wooden deck.\" data-caption-desc=\"A person wearing a white graphic t-shirt and blue jeans is kneeling on a wooden deck, using a power tool on a long piece of lumber. A small child in a dark blue long-sleeved shirt sits nearby holding a hammer. The background includes a table with various items and a chair.\" data-attachment-id=\"1846\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb2_27_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white t-shirt and jeans kneels on a wooden deck while working with tools, next to a small child in a blue shirt.\" title=\"Man and child working together on a wooden deck.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Man and child working together on a wooden deck.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A person wearing a white graphic t-shirt and blue jeans is kneeling on a wooden deck, using a power tool on a long piece of lumber. A small child in a dark blue long-sleeved shirt sits nearby holding a hammer. The background includes a table with various items and a chair.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb2_10_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A man relaxes on a bed while a baby lies beside him.\" data-caption-desc=\"An adult male with short dark hair and glasses is seated on a bed covered with striped bedding. A baby wearing a light blue outfit is lying on the bed near his legs. The background includes a wooden headboard and a curtain.\" data-attachment-id=\"1845\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb2_10_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a gray sweater sits on a bed with a baby lying next to him.\" title=\"A man relaxes on a bed while a baby lies beside him.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man relaxes on a bed while a baby lies beside him.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An adult male with short dark hair and glasses is seated on a bed covered with striped bedding. A baby wearing a light blue outfit is lying on the bed near his legs. The background includes a wooden headboard and a curtain.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_1024-2.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A peaceful newborn baby resting in a yellow outfit.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a close-up of an infant with fair skin, sparse reddish-brown hair, and closed eyes. The baby is dressed in a pale yellow garment adorned with a silver flower-shaped brooch on the chest. A clear nasal cannula tube is visible under the nose, suggesting medical monitoring or support. The infant lies on a soft white blanket with lace trim.\" data-attachment-id=\"1844\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_1024-2\/2963653835.jpg\" alt=\"A newborn baby with light skin and reddish hair lying on a white blanket wearing a yellow outfit with a decorative brooch.\" title=\"A peaceful newborn baby resting in a yellow outfit.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A peaceful newborn baby resting in a yellow outfit.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a close-up of an infant with fair skin, sparse reddish-brown hair, and closed eyes. The baby is dressed in a pale yellow garment adorned with a silver flower-shaped brooch on the chest. A clear nasal cannula tube is visible under the nose, suggesting medical monitoring or support. The infant lies on a soft white blanket with lace trim.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_30_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy in overalls and glasses poses for a photo.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with short hair and round glasses is seated, wearing dark green corduroy overalls over a striped long-sleeve shirt. Behind him to the left is a blue baby seat or rocker decorated with cartoon characters. The background includes a plain wall with an electrical outlet and carpeted flooring.\" data-attachment-id=\"1843\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_30_1024\/768803246.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing round glasses and green overalls sits in front of a blue baby seat.\" title=\"A young boy in overalls and glasses poses for a photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy in overalls and glasses poses for a photo.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with short hair and round glasses is seated, wearing dark green corduroy overalls over a striped long-sleeve shirt. Behind him to the left is a blue baby seat or rocker decorated with cartoon characters. The background includes a plain wall with an electrical outlet and carpeted flooring.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_29_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Family portrait with three people posing in front of a decorated Christmas tree.\" data-caption-desc=\"Three individuals are seated on the floor in front of a Christmas tree adorned with red ornaments. The person on the left wears a blue denim shirt and glasses, the person on the right wears a black top with a patterned scarf, and the child in the center sits wearing a dark sweater and beige pants.\" data-attachment-id=\"1842\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_29_1024\/2262361547.jpg\" alt=\"A family portrait featuring a man, woman, and young child sitting together in front of a Christmas tree.\" title=\"Family portrait with three people posing in front of a decorated Christmas tree.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Family portrait with three people posing in front of a decorated Christmas tree.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Three individuals are seated on the floor in front of a Christmas tree adorned with red ornaments. The person on the left wears a blue denim shirt and glasses, the person on the right wears a black top with a patterned scarf, and the child in the center sits wearing a dark sweater and beige pants.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_4599-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Children posing with a Christmas tree at a tree lot.\" data-caption-desc=\"A boy wearing glasses, a navy blue Penn State hoodie, and red sweatpants stands between two girls. The girl on the left wears a pink zip-up jacket and black pants; the girl on the right wears a graphic zip-up hoodie and jeans. They are standing in front of a large evergreen tree at what appears to be a Christmas tree farm.\" data-attachment-id=\"1841\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IMG_4599-scaled\/3341041832.jpg\" alt=\"Three children standing in front of a large Christmas tree at a tree farm.\" title=\"Children posing with a Christmas tree at a tree lot.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Children posing with a Christmas tree at a tree lot.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A boy wearing glasses, a navy blue Penn State hoodie, and red sweatpants stands between two girls. The girl on the left wears a pink zip-up jacket and black pants; the girl on the right wears a graphic zip-up hoodie and jeans. They are standing in front of a large evergreen tree at what appears to be a Christmas tree farm.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0628.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy and an older woman sit side by side, both wearing glasses.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows two individuals seated closely together on what appears to be a couch. The person on the left is a young boy with short brown hair, wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a light blue t-shirt with a black collar. The person on the right is an older woman with curly gray hair, also wearing wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark green collared shirt and a necklace.\" data-attachment-id=\"1840\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IMG_0628\/3941768569.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with glasses in a blue shirt sits next to an older woman with curly gray hair and glasses wearing a dark green top.\" title=\"A young boy and an older woman sit side by side, both wearing glasses.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy and an older woman sit side by side, both wearing glasses.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows two individuals seated closely together on what appears to be a couch. The person on the left is a young boy with short brown hair, wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a light blue t-shirt with a black collar. The person on the right is an older woman with curly gray hair, also wearing wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark green collared shirt and a necklace.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0343.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy looks up while standing in a living room.\" data-caption-desc=\"A side-profile view of a young boy wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a blue t-shirt, gazing upward. He has short spiky hair on top with faded sides. The background shows a living room with a couch, wall decorations including a round mirror and framed items, and a laundry basket.\" data-attachment-id=\"1839\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IMG_0343\/3281396393.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with spiky hair and glasses stands in profile looking upward inside a living room.\" title=\"A young boy looks up while standing in a living room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy looks up while standing in a living room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A side-profile view of a young boy wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a blue t-shirt, gazing upward. He has short spiky hair on top with faded sides. The background shows a living room with a couch, wall decorations including a round mirror and framed items, and a laundry basket.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0014.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy sits on a staircase.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy with short hair and glasses is sitting on the middle step of a wooden staircase that has beige carpeting. He is wearing a bright orange t-shirt with a graphic print, dark shorts, and white socks with black toes. Behind him, there are light-colored cabinets and a doorway leading to another room.\" data-attachment-id=\"1838\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IMG_0014\/773307705.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing glasses and an orange shirt sits on a carpeted wooden staircase in a home.\" title=\"A young boy sits on a staircase.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy sits on a staircase.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy with short hair and glasses is sitting on the middle step of a wooden staircase that has beige carpeting. He is wearing a bright orange t-shirt with a graphic print, dark shorts, and white socks with black toes. Behind him, there are light-colored cabinets and a doorway leading to another room.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img075-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A studio portrait of three children posing together.\" data-caption-desc=\"Two older children, one girl and one boy, are seated on the floor with a baby between them. The girl wears a pink dress and holds the baby, who is dressed in a satin outfit. The boy sits behind them wearing a striped polo shirt and glasses.\" data-attachment-id=\"1837\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/img075-scaled\/446017034.jpg\" alt=\"Three young children sitting together in a studio photo; two older kids flanking a baby.\" title=\"A studio portrait of three children posing together.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A studio portrait of three children posing together.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Two older children, one girl and one boy, are seated on the floor with a baby between them. The girl wears a pink dress and holds the baby, who is dressed in a satin outfit. The boy sits behind them wearing a striped polo shirt and glasses.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM001965.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Shirtless boy posing with arms wide open in a decorated living room.\" data-caption-desc=\"A shirtless young male wearing grey underwear stands facing away from the camera with his arms extended horizontally. The room contains a rocking chair, a small table with a vase, a baby gate, and a blue playpen labeled &#039;GRACO&#039;. In the background, there is a lit Christmas tree near a window.\" data-attachment-id=\"1836\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM001965\/832476661.jpg\" alt=\"A shirtless boy in underwear stands with arms outstretched in a living room with Christmas lights and furniture.\" title=\"Shirtless boy posing with arms wide open in a decorated living room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Shirtless boy posing with arms wide open in a decorated living room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A shirtless young male wearing grey underwear stands facing away from the camera with his arms extended horizontally. The room contains a rocking chair, a small table with a vase, a baby gate, and a blue playpen labeled 'GRACO'. In the background, there is a lit Christmas tree near a window.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000840_1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy sits in a recliner chair in a bedroom.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy with dark hair and glasses is sitting cross-legged in a light blue upholstered recliner chair with an attached footrest. He wears a white t-shirt and white socks, looking off to the right side of the frame. The room contains a wooden desk with computer equipment, a black office chair, a staircase, and a bed with colorful bedding.\" data-attachment-id=\"1835\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000840_1\/2899946358.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a white t-shirt sits cross-legged in a light blue recliner chair with footrest, looking to the side.\" title=\"A young boy sits in a recliner chair in a bedroom.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy sits in a recliner chair in a bedroom.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy with dark hair and glasses is sitting cross-legged in a light blue upholstered recliner chair with an attached footrest. He wears a white t-shirt and white socks, looking off to the right side of the frame. The room contains a wooden desk with computer equipment, a black office chair, a staircase, and a bed with colorful bedding.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000791.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children sit on the floor in front of a lit Christmas tree.\" data-caption-desc=\"Two young children are sitting cross-legged on a carpeted floor in front of a large, decorated Christmas tree. The older child wears glasses and a beige sweater, while the younger child has curly hair and is wearing a grey and blue jacket. Several wrapped gifts are placed under the tree, and to the right, there is a green filing cabinet with a computer monitor on top.\" data-attachment-id=\"1834\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000791\/954362407.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting on the floor in front of a decorated Christmas tree with wrapped gifts nearby.\" title=\"Two children sit on the floor in front of a lit Christmas tree.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two children sit on the floor in front of a lit Christmas tree.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Two young children are sitting cross-legged on a carpeted floor in front of a large, decorated Christmas tree. The older child wears glasses and a beige sweater, while the younger child has curly hair and is wearing a grey and blue jacket. Several wrapped gifts are placed under the tree, and to the right, there is a green filing cabinet with a computer monitor on top.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000676.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy plays a video game while sitting on his bed in a cluttered room.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a red shirt sits on the edge of a white bed, holding a black video game controller. The room has light blue walls with a colorful cityscape border, and the floor is covered with scattered crayons, toys, and papers.\" data-attachment-id=\"1833\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000676\/518770568.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with glasses sits on a bed holding a video game controller in a messy bedroom.\" title=\"A young boy plays a video game while sitting on his bed in a cluttered room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy plays a video game while sitting on his bed in a cluttered room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy wearing glasses and a red shirt sits on the edge of a white bed, holding a black video game controller. The room has light blue walls with a colorful cityscape border, and the floor is covered with scattered crayons, toys, and papers.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000602.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling boy hugs a toddler in front of a kitchen area.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a Sesame Street-themed shirt kneels on a tiled floor, smiling at the camera. A small child with curly hair in a yellow dress embraces him from behind. To the left is a white refrigerator with a decorative towel hanging on it.\" data-attachment-id=\"1832\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000602\/3089417342.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with glasses smiles while hugging a toddler in a yellow dress near a refrigerator.\" title=\"A smiling boy hugs a toddler in front of a kitchen area.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A smiling boy hugs a toddler in front of a kitchen area.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy wearing glasses and a Sesame Street-themed shirt kneels on a tiled floor, smiling at the camera. A small child with curly hair in a yellow dress embraces him from behind. To the left is a white refrigerator with a decorative towel hanging on it.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000256.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young boy using a laptop at a dining table.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy with short hair and glasses, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, is seated at a polished wooden table. He is actively typing on an open silver laptop computer. To his left on the table sits a can of Pepsi Max, a glass, and a pair of scissors.\" data-attachment-id=\"1831\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000256\/3024000766.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a white shirt sits at a wooden table using a laptop with a Pepsi can nearby.\" title=\"Young boy using a laptop at a dining table.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young boy using a laptop at a dining table.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy with short hair and glasses, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, is seated at a polished wooden table. He is actively typing on an open silver laptop computer. To his left on the table sits a can of Pepsi Max, a glass, and a pair of scissors.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000074.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy sits between two babies in a plush chair.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a yellow shirt sits in the middle of a large, dark red velvet armchair. He is flanked by two infants; one on his left wears a light pink onesie and makes a peace sign with his hand, while the other on his right wears a white outfit. The setting appears to be a living room with a wooden crib visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1830\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000074\/2600206845.jpg\" alt=\"Three young children sitting together in a large purple armchair.\" title=\"A young boy sits between two babies in a plush chair.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy sits between two babies in a plush chair.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy wearing glasses and a yellow shirt sits in the middle of a large, dark red velvet armchair. He is flanked by two infants; one on his left wears a light pink onesie and makes a peace sign with his hand, while the other on his right wears a white outfit. The setting appears to be a living room with a wooden crib visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSC01349.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Three children playing together in a backyard near a play structure.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows three young boys standing on a lawn in front of a wooden playhouse with a yellow slide. One boy faces the camera while the other two are turned away, appearing to interact with each other. The scene includes greenery and fencing in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1829\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/DSC01349\/3016274425.jpg\" alt=\"Three young boys playing in a grassy backyard with a wooden playset and yellow slide.\" title=\"Three children playing together in a backyard near a play structure.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Three children playing together in a backyard near a play structure.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows three young boys standing on a lawn in front of a wooden playhouse with a yellow slide. One boy faces the camera while the other two are turned away, appearing to interact with each other. The scene includes greenery and fencing in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/CalebAmanda.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy and baby sitting together for a portrait photo.\" data-caption-desc=\"A studio-style photograph shows a young boy wearing round glasses and a blue plaid shirt, seated behind a smiling baby girl in a yellow floral dress. The boy has his arms around the baby, who is looking directly at the camera with an open mouth expression. They are positioned against a plain white background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1828\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/CalebAmanda\/1000969769.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with glasses holding a smiling baby in a yellow dress against a white backdrop.\" title=\"A young boy and baby sitting together for a portrait photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy and baby sitting together for a portrait photo.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A studio-style photograph shows a young boy wearing round glasses and a blue plaid shirt, seated behind a smiling baby girl in a yellow floral dress. The boy has his arms around the baby, who is looking directly at the camera with an open mouth expression. They are positioned against a plain white background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/CalebAmanda001.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two happy children posing closely together.\" data-caption-desc=\"Two young children are lying on their backs, smiling broadly at the camera. The child in the foreground wears a red top and has light brown hair, while the child behind them wears a dark top and also has glasses. They appear to be resting on white bedding or fabric.\" data-attachment-id=\"1827\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/CalebAmanda001\/2315832648.jpg\" alt=\"Two smiling children with glasses lying on their backs together.\" title=\"Two happy children posing closely together.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two happy children posing closely together.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Two young children are lying on their backs, smiling broadly at the camera. The child in the foreground wears a red top and has light brown hair, while the child behind them wears a dark top and also has glasses. They appear to be resting on white bedding or fabric.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/caleb6_7.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby dressed in Halloween attire sits in a hospital bed with a small pumpkin.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child is seated in what appears to be a hospital bed, wearing a colorful Halloween outfit that includes a cape and hat. The child holds a small orange pumpkin decorated with a face. An adult&#039;s arm is visible on the left side of the frame, suggesting someone is supporting or comforting the child.\" data-attachment-id=\"1826\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/caleb6_7.jpg\" alt=\"A baby sitting in a hospital bed wearing a Halloween costume with a pumpkin nearby.\" title=\"Baby dressed in Halloween attire sits in a hospital bed with a small pumpkin.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby dressed in Halloween attire sits in a hospital bed with a small pumpkin.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child is seated in what appears to be a hospital bed, wearing a colorful Halloween outfit that includes a cape and hat. The child holds a small orange pumpkin decorated with a face. An adult's arm is visible on the left side of the frame, suggesting someone is supporting or comforting the child.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/200203192149938.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child playfully mimics holding a large ceremonial check with a ruler during a home project.\" data-caption-desc=\"An indoor scene shows a young boy in red pajamas and glasses holding a white ruler horizontally across his shoulders, resembling a oversized ceremonial bank check. An adult is bent over working on assembling or moving a white cabinet frame on the floor. The room has yellow walls, windows, scattered papers, and construction materials.\" data-attachment-id=\"1825\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/200203192149938\/1346214028.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy in red pajamas holds a ruler like a check while an adult works on furniture nearby.\" title=\"A child playfully mimics holding a large ceremonial check with a ruler during a home project.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child playfully mimics holding a large ceremonial check with a ruler during a home project.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An indoor scene shows a young boy in red pajamas and glasses holding a white ruler horizontally across his shoulders, resembling a oversized ceremonial bank check. An adult is bent over working on assembling or moving a white cabinet frame on the floor. The room has yellow walls, windows, scattered papers, and construction materials.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/200202082154890.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A person is sleeping inside a baby bassinet.\" data-caption-desc=\"A person wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and blue shorts is lying on their side, asleep, inside a portable baby bassinet. The bassinet has a light blue and white speckled fabric lining with ruffled edges and a warning label attached to the interior wall. A small camera or sensor device is visible on the side of the bassinet frame.\" data-attachment-id=\"1824\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/200202082154890\/546945326.jpg\" alt=\"A person sleeping in a baby bassinet with blue and white patterned fabric.\" title=\"A person is sleeping inside a baby bassinet.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A person is sleeping inside a baby bassinet.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A person wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and blue shorts is lying on their side, asleep, inside a portable baby bassinet. The bassinet has a light blue and white speckled fabric lining with ruffled edges and a warning label attached to the interior wall. A small camera or sensor device is visible on the side of the bassinet frame.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-prev\" title=\"Prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">42<\/span><\/label>\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-next\" title=\"Next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n<p>While waiting for our possession to move from Berkeley to State College, we stayed at Rita\u2019s parent\u2019s house in Michigan. My parents were living very near at that time also. Rita was about 20 weeks pregnant then and had already had two miscarriages. One night she woke me and said she thought her water broke. We went to St. Joseph\u2019s Medical Center, and they told us that she would deliver the baby within 72 hours. At a gestational age of 21-weeks, the baby would surely not survive. They suggested aborting the pregnancy. Rita told them she couldn&#8217;t do that as she could feel the baby moving. The biggest risk in waiting was apparently infection, so we decide to wait and see. They transferred her to the University of Michigan Medical Center, where she remained on bed rest for seven weeks.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"right-sidebar\" style=\"border-color:#000009;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2F323C;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Abortions<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">\r\n<p>It seems like every few years the conservatives in this country get all fired up because liberals want to allow late-term abortions.\u00a0 What is usually lost in the rhetoric is that what liberals want is for doctors to not be charged with murder for performing late-term abortions that are, of course, deemed medically necessary.\u00a0 I have to say it was pretty shocking to hear the first doctor that saw Rita propose aborting the pregnancy.\u00a0 He certainly was pushing this on us, but I think he thought the risk, i.e., something serious happening to Rita that could possibly lead to her not being able to have children, was much greater than the highly unlikely reward, i.e. the baby being born at least four or five weeks after the amniotic sack broke.<\/p>\r\n<p>While I&#8217;m strongly pro-choice, I am also strongly not anti-life.\u00a0 Deciding whether or not to terminate the pregnancy never really seemed like an option to us as we naively didn&#8217;t see the harm in just waiting it out.\u00a0 I am still not quite sure what the harm in waiting was.\u00a0 I think the doctor just felt that there was no possible way the baby would be born at a gestational age at which it would survive.\u00a0 I have no idea how an abortion at 20 weeks into a pregnancy would be done.\u00a0 I suppose they would probably just induce labor.<\/p>\r\n<p>This story has another abortion-related twist in that the doctors actually decided to induce labor at 28 weeks.\u00a0 Obviously, they did force us to do this but their argument was that, with almost no amniotic fluid buffer, the baby&#8217;s lungs were not developing as they should and most babies born at this time have good outcomes.\u00a0 Rita and I actually thought about this a lot but we agreed that what the doctors said made a lot of sense, so we decided to have them &#8220;abort&#8221; the pregnancy.\u00a0 In every sense of the word, the doctors were performing an abortion because they were inducing the termination of a pregnancy.\u00a0 Of course, many women have labor induced or cesarian sections, and these could all be deemed late-term abortions.\u00a0 Of course, the doctors doing these procedures and the women having them done have no intention for the baby to die, but what if it does?<\/p>\r\n<p>Caleb <em>very<\/em> nearly did not make it, and it&#8217;s interesting to consider the ramifications had he not.\u00a0 Rita and I certainly would have second-guessed the decision to induce labor for the rest of our lives.\u00a0 Should the doctors have then been held responsible for Caleb&#8217;s death?\u00a0 While I can&#8217;t imagine Rita or I thinking this, the laws the conservatives want and the liberal fight against would have made the doctors legally culpable.\u00a0 If the doctors knew they might be legally liable if their best medical advice leads to death, would they not even consider doing what they thought was medically the best option?<\/p>\r\n<p>I think Pete Buttigieg, who I hope has a long career in politics, summed it up nicely while being questioned by Fox News&#8217; Chris Wallace who asked, &#8220;Do you believe, at any point in pregnancy, whether it&#8217;s at six weeks or eight weeks or 24 weeks or whenever, that there should be any limit on a woman&#8217;s right to have an abortion?&#8221;\u00a0 Buttigieg replied, &#8220;I think the dialogue has gotten so caught up on where you draw the line that we&#8217;ve gotten away from the fundamental question of who gets to draw the line, and I trust women to draw the line when it&#8217;s their own health.&#8221; When Wallace pushed him about advocating the third trimester abortions he has about the best reply I think I&#8217;ve ever heard, &#8220;That&#8217;s right, representing one percent of cases. So let&#8217;s put ourselves in the shoes of a woman in that situation. If it&#8217;s that late in your pregnancy, than almost by definition, you&#8217;ve been expecting to carry it to term. We&#8217;re talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name. Women who have purchased a crib, families that then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime, something about the health or the life of the mother or viability of the pregnancy that forces them to make an impossible, unthinkable choice. And the bottom line is as horrible as that choice is, that woman, that family may seek spiritual guidance, they may seek medical guidance, but that decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Caleb was born on September 18, 1998, at a gestational age of 28 weeks but his lungs were severely underdeveloped from a lack of amniotic fluid in the uterus. He weighed 2.5 pounds and remained on a ventilator for nearly four weeks. While the nurses tried to prepare us for the NICU, I was completely unprepared for Caleb&#8217;s challenges. During his first day there, we watched his blood pressure drop to the single digits. The nurses started preparing us for him not to make it. Fortunately, the medication started to work, and his blood pressure slowly rose. While all the days of his nine-week stay in the NICU were not that rough, there were many more ups and downs. It was an emotional roller coaster ride, a big wake-up to the real world, and a rough welcome to becoming a father and professor. Needless to say, my first semester at PSU did not go well.<\/p>\r\n<p>I attempted to start teaching the class I was assigned while Rita was in the hospital. Fortunately, there was a direct flight from State College to Detroit, and I made the trip numerous times. One memorable flight was when employees of Northwest Airlines had just ended their strike; besides the pilots and flight attendants, I was the only person on the plane. After a few emergency trips to Ann Arbor, the department found someone to permanently teach my class which allowed me to spend all my time in Michigan.<\/p>\r\n<p>While Caleb coming home from the NICU was a huge step forward, it also was a very trying time for Rita and me. He was still in need of a great deal of medical attention and constant monitoring. We hooked him up to a breathing monitor at night, which constantly false alarmed. We took him repeatedly to Hershey Medical Center to determine if his retinopathy was improving or worsening. We tried everything possible to get him to gain weight. Nothing worked because I think his ultra-thin build has nothing to do with being premature. We got letters home every year from school alerting us that his BMI was in the 0.5th percentile. That\u2019s the problem with sick kids. You never know what is a problem and what is just individuality. This has been even more of an issue with Amanda.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-4\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P6.mp3?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P6.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P6.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Cancer<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Not long after Caleb\u2019s health seemed to stabilize and just after my parents had bought a house in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, between my brother in D.C. and me, but before they\u2019d moved, my mother was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, i.e., cancer in the immune (lymph) system. The thing with lymphoma is that there are various types and a variety of stages. Some are very slow-growing, extending life expectancy but also reducing the effects of chemotherapy. Some are fast-growing and respond well to chemotherapy. There are also types with growth rates in between. It was never quite clear (to me at least) what type my mother had.<\/p>\r\n<p>The doctors treated it aggressively with chemotherapy, and for a while, it seemed to be working. However, as anyone who has closely followed someone with cancer knows, there are many ups and downs as one test result looks encouraging and the next looks discouraging. After a few years, it became clear that she was losing the battle. After roughly three years, she passed away on June 23, 2003. She had turned 58 the month before.<\/p>\r\n<p>I recall my dad calling my ex-inlaw&#8217;s house a few miles from my parent\u2019s house, where I stayed with Rita\u2019s family. I knew the end was near, but you always hold out a bit of hope for a miracle. All I really remember about the telephone call was my dad saying, \u201cMom passed.\u201d This was very early in the morning, and I recall hospice taking her as I arrived. Fortunately, I was able to spend some time with her after the kids\u2019 school year ended. I had not seen her for a few months, and I recall being devastated by how frail and weak she had gotten since the last I had seen her. The other memory I have of the day she died is a spectacular 180\u00b0 rainbow in the eastern sky.<\/p>\r\n<p>Losing my mother was quite hard. She was the one from whom I got my overzealous passion, outspokenness, and a strong desire for fairness and honesty. Unfortunately, this combination of traits also tends to annoy people if not moderated properly. My mother, who dealt with this with herself and her family, was always the person who would help me. Whenever I was overly upset about something and wanted to act, I would talk to her and inevitably calm down. There have been <em>many<\/em> occasions since her passing when her calming wisdom would have been helpful. There have also been <em>many<\/em> occasions when her passion and outspokenness likely would have been helpful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-5\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P7.mp3?_=5\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P7.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P7.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Panicked Feeling<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I can vividly remember the day that my anxiety turned into full-blown panic. While I spoke earlier about my anxiety about the safety of people close to me, I was always extremely nervous in other situations. For example, before baseball games throughout my teenage years, I was usually so nervous that I could hardly interact with people. While I don\u2019t recall being nervous before exams in high school, I was usually extremely nervous before exams in college. I remember my friends joking that the last person who should be nervous about an exam was me. After getting a B+ in freshmen English during my first semester, I never got anything less than a straight-A during the rest of my college career, but I never learned to relax before an exam. In fact, sometimes, I felt like I was the most nervous person in the room when I was <i>giving<\/i><b><i> <\/i><\/b>an exam. I was constantly worried about the exam being too long, too difficult, too easy, sufficient in covering important concepts, etc.<\/p>\r\n<p>I had spent the summer of 2001 living in Hampton, Virginia, and working at NASA Langley Research Center. Rita was pregnant with Amanda during this time. This was a great experience, and I came back to State College for the academic year with a lot of enthusiasm. I taught two classes that I\u2019d taught before but had decided to revamp one of them completely. Thus, I started making new notes from scratch. In early October 2001, I was sitting in an area of my office away from my computer where I would write and develop notes for class. Early in the semester, I had gotten ahead preparing notes, but my buffer at that point was basically empty, and I was making notes the day before or the day of a lecture. This wasn\u2019t really a serious problem, but I really needed to be focused on other things (i.e., research) as an assistant (untenured) professor. Plus, Rita was pregnant, and I was feeling constantly drained. I would later discover I had severe sleep apnea.<\/p>\r\n<p>While sitting at this side desk in my office, I just felt this sense of being completely overwhelmed and thinking that I was never going to maintain what I was doing for the rest of the semester, especially with a newborn at home. I started sweating and trembling (which I now call \u201cthe jitters\u201d), and I could not focus on anything. My mind was racing in all different directions, and I couldn\u2019t relax. In previous stressful situations, I could always calm myself, for example, once the game or exam started. However, this time I just could not calm down. I was supposed to be teaching a class that afternoon, and I was panicked that I would not be able to. I have since learned how depression and anxiety can lead to more depression and anxiety, and you can wind up in a terrible downward spiral.<\/p>\r\n<p>I wound up trying to teach my graduate-level class that afternoon, but the students could tell I was struggling with something, and I recall finally telling them I needed to take a few minutes. At that point, a couple of students told me it was fine to cancel the class, and I remember two of them walking back with me to my office as I trembled. I called Rita, and she came to pick me up. I felt terrible about ending class early, but there was no way I was going to be able to continue. My brain just could not focus.<\/p>\r\n<p>The problem was, this made me even more anxious about the much larger, and surely less understanding, undergraduate-level class the next day. I wondered if the same thing would happen. I got myself calmed down by the evening and was able to sleep, albeit with undiagnosed sleep apnea episodes occurring about once a minute. Stress has always made me sleepy. However, I woke up even more panicked than I was the previous day. There was no way I would be able to go to work, nonetheless give a lecture. I called in sick. This made me feel terrible and even more determined not to miss any more lectures. Unfortunately, this just ramped up the anxiety, and the downward spiral continued.<\/p>\r\n<p>During this period, my typical day was as follows. I would wake up in an utter panic with my mind racing. I couldn\u2019t focus on anything, which resulted in me not making even simple decisions. I would stand in the walk-in closet, not being able to decide what to wear, even though I knew it really didn\u2019t matter. You don\u2019t realize how many simple decisions you make every day until each one of them becomes a huge one in your mind.<\/p>\r\n<p>The mornings were definitely the toughest, but I could usually settle down by the late afternoon. But the cycle would repeat every day, and it became clear that I would not be able to teach classes that semester. My department head found someone to cover for me permanently after Amanda was born and rushed to the NICU.<\/p>\r\n<p>At some point after Amanda\u2019s birth, I realized that I was not going to be able to overcome these panic attacks on my own and started looking for a psychiatrist that could help. I can\u2019t remember who I initially saw, but he prescribed me Zoloft. The problem with anti-depressants is that they take a long time to start working, and in fact, you never really know if they\u2019re doing anything or not. It\u2019s not like you&#8217;ll notice anything different if you don\u2019t take them for a day or two. Likewise, if you start to feel depressed, taking one won\u2019t make you immediately feel any better.<\/p>\r\n<p>Eventually, I was able to pull myself out of the downward spiral of despair and get back to functioning normally. Going through a case of clinical depression and anxiety was very eye-opening for me. While people understood this far more in 2001 than in, say, 1980, there was still a stigma about it, and I think there still is. Before going through it myself, I was one of those people that would think, \u201cYou\u2019re depressed? Just do something fun to make yourself feel better.\u201d Unfortunately, it simply does not work that way. First, everything you used to enjoy does not seem enjoyable anymore. My psychiatrist once told me that when you\u2019re depressed, you cannot understand how you could not be, and when you\u2019re not depressed, you cannot understand how you could be. This is <i>very<\/i> true. You simply cannot make yourself feel better.<\/p>\r\n<p>I truly believe that until you\u2019ve gone through it yourself, you do not completely understand, just like men cannot completely understand what it\u2019s like to be a woman and vice versa. People can be sympathetic and possibly even empathetic because they\u2019ve likely had events in their life that were depressing. I&#8217;ve obviously been through this kind of depression, but clinical depression is very different; there really isn\u2019t anything that causes it. It would be great if you could pinpoint one thing in your life that you could change to make it go away, but you can\u2019t. In fact, I have realized that my issues usually happen <i>after<\/i> a stressful event has passed. For example, if there is a deadline, I can focus on meeting that deadline. After the deadline passed, I would feel overwhelmed with all \u201cthe other\u201d things I needed to do. Without something on which to focus, my brain would start to race, and every small thing I needed to do felt like something huge.<\/p>\r\n<p>The best way to make people who have never experienced this understand is to ask them if they could make themselves fall asleep whenever they wanted. They would obviously know they could not. I would then tell them it was like telling someone that was clinically depressed just to feel better. You can\u2019t do it. There\u2019s some chemical imbalance in your brain that simply does not allow it. This is just like how some chemical builds in your brain while awake, allowing you to fall asleep. As an engineer, I would joke that you were simply not able to control the controller in your head. It\u2019s just like trying to unsee something. You just cannot do it, and the more you try, the harder it is. I joke with people now that I should have just told people I had debilitating migraines. While not everyone has had a migraine, almost everyone has had a headache. Thus, they can understand how migraines could make doing anything complicated and empathize with a person dealing with them.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Zoloft did not really cause any side effects for me besides occasional night sweats which have not happened in years at this point. However, once I started feeling better, I started wondering what it was actually doing for me. As someone hesitant to take medications in general, I decided to stop taking Zoloft. This was, unfortunately, a huge mistake. While I was fine for a while, when autumn came around, I started having problems again. As with many people, I have learned the fall is generally not a good time for me. I wound up in a downward spiral again and had to take a leave from work. Not long after this, three of my nephews died in a house fire. I will discuss this later.<\/p>\r\n<p>I had stopped seeing the psychiatrist, and I wasn\u2019t sure how to get my prescription restarted. For some reason, I thought that my regular doctor would not be willing to prescribe anti-depressants; now that\u2019s who writes the prescriptions. Rita tried to get an appointment with a psychiatrist as there was no way I was able to deal with it. Unfortunately, no one had any openings. She finally found someone and took me to see him. His office was basically an empty room with a desk. He suggested I take Remeron. I\u2019m not sure why besides him having some samples in his desk. He gave them to Rita, who noticed they were actually expired. He then rummaged around and found some that were not. It was not a good experience, and I think this was the only time I saw him.<\/p>\r\n<p>He also gave me a prescription for Remeron, and I tried taking it for a couple of weeks. The problem was that it just made me sleep all the time. And when I was awake, I was very groggy and out of it. Maybe if I\u2019d given it longer the side effects would have subsided, but I decided I really needed to see another psychiatrist.<\/p>\r\n<p>Rita learned that the best way to get seen immediately was to go to the hospital and check in to the psychiatric ward. Rita\u2019s father was bipolar and had been having many problems after he retired and had spent some time in one. Thus, we decided to go to Mount Nittany Medical Center and see if they had beds available. Fortunately, they did, and I was admitted. This was the first time I had ever been admitted to a hospital. It was not a pleasant experience, although a lot of that had to do with the depression. However, I was able to see a psychiatrist who simply said, \u201cWell, it seems as Zoloft worked before; let\u2019s get you back on that.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how long I stayed in the hospital, but I suspect it was about a week. I learned a lot about mental illnesses and how I could better deal with mine. One thing I realized is that it is different for each person. There were obviously many other mentally ill patients in the hospital, and I realized that I had it very well compared to most of their lives. After I was released, I was able to start developing some coping strategies that worked for me. Unfortunately, the death of my nephews made it all seem pointless.<\/p>\r\n<p>I have not really had a big problem with depression or anxiety in a long time. There were some episodes at the beginning of the divorce and my initial dealings with the legal system, and I will discuss those later. I have learned that there will be some bad days, but I just have to accept them and not get worried that it\u2019s the start of something bigger. I justify these bad days by simply telling myself I\u2019m sick. I rarely ever get physically sick so being mentally sick for a couple of days isn\u2019t a big deal. This strategy has worked well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-6\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P8.mp3?_=6\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P8.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P8.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Daughter (and Another)<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Before I talk about the house fire, I will discuss Amanda\u2019s birth and subsequent medical complications.<\/p>\r\n<p>Amanda was born full-term on October 30, 2001, but the doctors immediately notice some abnormalities. They monitored her closely and realized she was not able to dispel material in her bowels. They believed she had Hirschsprung\u2019s disease, which is when nerve endings are missing from the colon. Amanda was rushed to Hershey Medical Center, where she was to have a \u201cpull-through\u201d surgery in which they remove the portion of the colon that does not have nerve endings. When they started this procedure, they realized her appendix had ruptured at some point. Thus, instead of doing the pull-through procedure, they removed her appendix and gave her a colostomy. They also discovered the extent of her birth defects, including the lack of a bladder and a uterus. She spent four weeks in the NICU.<\/p>\r\n<p>We were much more prepared for the NICU experience this time, but it was entirely different. There are basically two situations that cause a baby to be in a NICU. The first, as with Caleb, is being born prematurely. The second, as with Amanda, is having birth defects. As there are no private rooms (or any rooms) in a NICU, we had also learned a lot about the issues of birth defects while Caleb was in the hospital. That experience left me amazed at how many different things can go wrong in a developing fetus that will allow it to survive <em>in utero<\/em> but not after birth. Fetal development truly is amazing. During this time, I made regular drives between Hershey and State College and stayed quite a few nights in the nearby Ronald McDonald house. These are amazing, and if you want to consider giving to a charity, I would recommend this one. Fortunately, Rita&#8217;s parents were retired by this point and could stay with Caleb in State College. My parents also regularly came from Michigan, but my dad had not yet retired, and my mother was dealing with cancer.<\/p>\r\n<p>On August 13, 2002, Amanda had her third surgery. Because she did not have a bladder, urine continually flowed from her kidneys through a urogenital sinus and out. The surgeons were worried about infection, so they gave her a vesicostomy, which was a surgically created connection between the urogenital sinus and the skin in Amanda&#8217;s case. Because she was only nine months old at this point, the urine was not collected in a bag but by her diaper.<\/p>\r\n<p>Surgery #4 was on October 18, 2002. Because Amanda had a colostomy, there was no rush to perform the Hirchsprung\u2019s pull-through procedure. Thus, the surgeons waited until she was almost a year old to perform this operation. The operation appeared to be successful, but we later learned that she has other bowel control issues that may or may not be related to Hirschsprung&#8217;s disease. The colostomy was left in place so the colon could heal. We had to dilate her anus each day for about a month. Rita couldn&#8217;t bring herself to do this, so I had to. It was not pleasant.<\/p>\r\n<p>Once Amanda\u2019s colon had healed sufficiently, on February 7, 2003, the surgeons removed her colostomy in the hope that she could have normal bowel movements. Unfortunately, while feces now moves through the colon and out, Amanda did not have complete control of when this happened.<\/p>\r\n<p>After months of trying to diagnose what was causing Amanda so much abdominal pain, an ultrasound technician happened to scan a little higher in her abdomen than intended and realized Amanda had gallstones. Because no one suspected a five-year-old child would have gallstones, the doctors never thought to look. She then had her gallbladder removed on August 21, 2007. I was later accused of saying she was lying about her pain. In fact, Rita and I couldn&#8217;t figure out what was going on. Ultrasounds showed nothing, so we thought maybe it was stress-related or she was nervous about going&#8211;or not wanting to go&#8211;back to school.<\/p>\r\n<p>At some point, the doctors also realized that Amanda had a tethered spinal cord. This happens when the very end of the spinal cord, which is essentially just the sheath that encases the nerves, gets entangled in the vertebrae. This is a problem because the spine grows faster than the spinal cord. Thus, if both ends are attached to something, i.e., the top to the brain and the bottom to the vertebrae, the spinal cord will get stretched as a child grows. This can then lead to neuro-muscular problems, especially in the lower extremities. This condition often resolves itself naturally so the plan was to monitor it and hope for that. After a few years, the neurologist decided that it was not going to fix itself naturally and the spinal cord was getting stretched to a point at which problems could develop. Thus, Amanda had surgery to untether her spinal cord. This sounds like a much more complicated and dangerous procedure than it really is. After shaving away a bit of the vertebra to access the entangled cord, the surgeon simply cuts the cord to release it. As there are no nerves in the spinal cord at this location, doing this does not do any neurological damage. The surgery was deemed a success, although as Amanda got older she started to have weakness in one of her legs. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s clear that the tethered spinal cord caused this but it seems like the natural culprit.<\/p>\r\n<p>Because Amanda was born with essentially no bladder, on June 3, 2008, the pediatric urologist at Hershey Medical Center constructed one from bowel tissue. He put a port in Amanda&#8217;s abdomen in which someone can insert a catheter to empty the bladder; we had to do this every three hours. Thus, we would have to wake her up twice a night to empty her bladder. The plan was to slowly stretch this time out because being woken up every three hours was not good for anyone. The idea was to let the pressure in the bladder stretch the bowel tissue because it is not as compliant as normal bladder tissue. However, after a few traumatic episodes later in 2008, Amanda refused to go more than three hours at night. Although we did try to stretch it out so that she would only be awoken once per night.<\/p>\r\n<p>These episodes started not long after Amanda recovered from surgery when we realized there was a problem with the channel connecting the port in her abdomen to the bladder. The surgeon had tried to make a valving mechanism so that when the bladder got full and expanded, the channel was pinched closed so urine did not leak out. The idea was that the catheter would push through this valve to release the pressure and drain the bladder. Unfortunately, on a few occasions and always at night when Amanda was sleeping, we would wake her and not be able to get the catheter in. Each time this resulted in a traumatic trip to the emergency room, and Amanda experienced a great deal of pain as her bladder distended. While the procedure to empty her bladder in this situation was simple\u2014inserting a needle through the abdominal wall\u2014the emergency room doctors always had to talk to the surgeons in Hershey to be certain of the procedure and where to insert the needle. Thus, on November 18, 2008, Amanda had another surgery in which they discovered the channel would get kinked when the bladder was overly full and repositioned things to prevent this. During this surgery time, the surgeons also created a port that allowed us to flush Amanda\u2019s bowels with an antegrade colonic enema or ACE.<\/p>\r\n<p>Amanda started having more trouble emptying her bladder at the end of 2012. It was the same issue as before; we could not get the catheter in, and we would have to take her to the emergency room. Again this always happened at night. I argued strongly that we should simply leave the catheter in at night since we were not following the bladder-stretching protocol. I ultimately sent the surgeon a long email about the issue and that I thought not leaving the catheter in at night was doing Amanda (and our family) much more harm than good. He agreed and said it was fine to leave the catheter in. Rita viewed this as an unacceptable compromise because it might make the value leak, and refused to do it. My thought was that if the valve did start leaking slightly, it was really no big deal. Amanda\u2019s classmates were not going to think she peed her pants if her shirt just under her ribs was slightly wet. Plus, we could always put gauze over the stoma to absorb anything that leaked. She\u2019d feel the dampness before it would soak through to her shirt.<\/p>\r\n<p>On June 19, 2014, the doctors performed the ninth surgery to again try to fix the valving mechanism, which had apparently changed as she grew.<\/p>\r\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-1541 .fg-image { width: 640px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-image-viewer foogallery-link-image foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-image-viewer fg-ready fg-dark fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom fg-no-js\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-1541\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:false,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;src&quot;,&quot;srcset&quot;:&quot;srcset&quot;,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;loop&quot;:true,&quot;autoplay&quot;:0}}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fiv-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-inner-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC00258-1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A man supervises four children playing on a playground.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1538\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/DSC00258-1\/147680288.jpg\" alt=\"A man and four children playing on a playground structure with colorful equipment.\" title=\"A man supervises four children playing on a playground.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Amanda-1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby playing in the bath with colorful toys.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1494\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/Amanda-1\/3799538632.jpg\" alt=\"A baby in a bathtub holding a red cup with colorful bath toys nearby.\" title=\"Baby playing in the bath with colorful toys.\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000284.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby eating corn on the cob while sitting on an adult&#039;s lap.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1500\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000284\/1023304445.jpg\" alt=\"A baby in a white onesie sits on an adult&#039;s lap holding a long piece of corn on the cob, with the adult wearing blue scrubs.\" title=\"Baby eating corn on the cob while sitting on an adult&#039;s lap.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000217.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby holding a messy plate during a meal.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1497\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000217\/1009785393.jpg\" alt=\"A baby holds a dirty white paper plate in front of its face while sitting at a table with pizza box and pacifier nearby.\" title=\"Baby holding a messy plate during a meal.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000482.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler sits inside an open kitchen drawer amidst baby clothes in a messy kitchen.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1502\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000482\/2051525303.jpg\" alt=\"A young child sits inside an open kitchen drawer filled with baby clothes, surrounded by scattered laundry on the floor in a cluttered home kitchen.\" title=\"A toddler sits inside an open kitchen drawer amidst baby clothes in a messy kitchen.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000258.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby\u2019s feet visible beneath a sparkly pink crochet blanket among toys.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1498\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000258\/3917482336.jpg\" alt=\"A baby&#039;s feet peek out from under a pink crocheted blanket with sparkles, surrounded by stuffed animals on a blue surface.\" title=\"Baby\u2019s feet visible beneath a sparkly pink crochet blanket among toys.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC01322.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler rests on the floor in a patterned dress.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1496\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/DSC01322\/1944911617.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with curly hair wearing a white patterned dress lies on their side on a brown carpet next to a brick structure.\" title=\"A toddler rests on the floor in a patterned dress.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000259.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby in a colorful activity walker.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1499\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000259\/1674469691.jpg\" alt=\"A baby in a colorful activity walker sitting on a tiled floor.\" title=\"Baby in a colorful activity walker.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IM000789_1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two young children posing together in front of a Christmas tree.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1535\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/thumb_IM000789_1\/4093506090.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting in front of a decorated Christmas tree.\" title=\"Two young children posing together in front of a Christmas tree.\" width=\"334\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000848.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Two toddlers sit together on a small blue chair in a child&#039;s bedroom.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1505\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000848\/529267007.jpeg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting on a small blue armchair in a bedroom with a bed and window.\" title=\"Two toddlers sit together on a small blue chair in a child&#039;s bedroom.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000862.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler peeks over a wooden fence from a backyard.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1506\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000862\/1750684926.jpg\" alt=\"A young child in a blue gingham dress stands on a green stool behind a wooden fence, looking out into a grassy backyard with trees and a house.\" title=\"A toddler peeks over a wooden fence from a backyard.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_4771.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children sit together on a train, looking at a laptop screen.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1537\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_4771\/3541785110.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting on a train with a laptop in front of them.\" title=\"Two children sit together on a train, looking at a laptop screen.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0253.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children pose for a photo near a train.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1520\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0253\/1473619961.jpg\" alt=\"Two children standing in front of a train with a fence between them.\" title=\"Two children pose for a photo near a train.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iPhoneAmanda-rotated-e1622298485575.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child&#039;s drawing of an iPhone covered in app icons.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1534\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/iPhoneAmanda-rotated-e1622298485575\/3431735665.jpg\" alt=\"Hand-drawn sketch of a smartphone filled with colorful app icons and the handwritten text &#039;I Phone&#039; on white paper.\" title=\"A child&#039;s drawing of an iPhone covered in app icons.\" width=\"378\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_largepv_3a46.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Child in motocross helmet poses indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1536\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_largepv_3a46\/3062490829.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing a colorful motocross helmet and blue patterned shirt stands indoors near a brick wall.\" title=\"Child in motocross helmet poses indoors.\" width=\"203\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2329-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1531\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_2329-scaled\/317217149.jpeg\" alt=\"Three young children wearing colorful helmets pose in a kitchen with stainless steel appliances.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000911-e1622386714724.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl in a Michigan dress standing indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1507\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000911-e1622386714724\/3265614803.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with curly blonde hair wearing a navy blue Michigan dress stands indoors.\" title=\"Young girl in a Michigan dress standing indoors.\" width=\"278\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000913.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young child makes a playful, surprised face while resting their hands on their cheeks.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1508\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000913\/952658595.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with blonde hair holding their face in a surprised expression.\" title=\"A young child makes a playful, surprised face while resting their hands on their cheeks.\" width=\"520\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0740-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two people pose with a large prop object indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1523\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0740-rotated\/911219082.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a blonde wig and tiara looks surprised while another person holds a large prop object near them.\" title=\"Two people pose with a large prop object indoors.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1791.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Children relaxing in a cozy wooden cabin living room.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1529\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1791\/4098997178.jpeg\" alt=\"Three children in pajamas sitting on a couch in a wooden cabin living room.\" title=\"Children relaxing in a cozy wooden cabin living room.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1809-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children pose in front of a stone wall in a snowy forest.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1530\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1809-rotated\/3455403106.jpg\" alt=\"Two children in winter jackets standing in front of a stone wall in a wooded area with snow on the ground.\" title=\"Two children pose in front of a stone wall in a snowy forest.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1635-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children pose for a photo while seated in a large indoor arena.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1528\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1635-rotated\/3400051454.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children wearing lanyards with ID cards stand in stadium seating.\" title=\"Two children pose for a photo while seated in a large indoor arena.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3484-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl poses on the beach with the Santa Monica Pier behind her.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1532\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3484-scaled\/3896763327.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing sunglasses and a black jacket stands on a sandy beach with the Santa Monica Pier in the background.\" title=\"A young girl poses on the beach with the Santa Monica Pier behind her.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1564.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Children admire a homemade snowman on a snowy day.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1527\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1564\/906129460.jpeg\" alt=\"Two children in winter coats look at a small snowman with orange eyes in a snowy backyard.\" title=\"Children admire a homemade snowman on a snowy day.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0863-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Children playing with sleds in the snow.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1526\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0863-rotated\/447140937.jpg\" alt=\"Two children in winter clothing holding sleds on a snowy field.\" title=\"Children playing with sleds in the snow.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0199.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children sit on the floor, one holding a baby seat.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1518\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0199\/311287319.jpeg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting on a carpeted floor indoors; one holds a blue patterned baby seat with visible text.\" title=\"Two children sit on the floor, one holding a baby seat.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0252.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Children posing on a sunny beach near the ocean.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1519\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0252\/1636037617.jpg\" alt=\"Two children standing on a sandy beach with the ocean in the background; one child holds hands over eyes.\" title=\"Children posing on a sunny beach near the ocean.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0268.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child reads a newspaper from a hospital bed.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1521\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0268\/1977020335.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with curly hair lies in a hospital bed wearing tiger-patterned pajamas and reading a newspaper while looking up.\" title=\"A child reads a newspaper from a hospital bed.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0011.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling child sits in a hospital bed, looking at the camera.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1511\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0011\/3970251208.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with light brown hair wearing a patterned top smiles while sitting in a hospital bed.\" title=\"A smiling child sits in a hospital bed, looking at the camera.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0800.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child rests peacefully in a hospital bed surrounded by medical monitors.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1524\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0800\/1141887177.jpg\" alt=\"A young child sleeping in a hospital bed with medical equipment nearby.\" title=\"A child rests peacefully in a hospital bed surrounded by medical monitors.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0016.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young child in a hospital gown lies on a bed with medical tape visible on their torso.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1512\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0016\/759990686.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with light brown hair lying on a bed wearing a tiger-patterned hospital gown and orange pants with medical tape on their abdomen.\" title=\"A young child in a hospital gown lies on a bed with medical tape visible on their torso.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0025.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl looks down at her bare midsection while wearing a yellow shirt pulled up over her head.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1514\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0025\/3613836903.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with blonde hair looking down at her bare torso which has several marks on it.\" title=\"A young girl looks down at her bare midsection while wearing a yellow shirt pulled up over her head.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0147.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl holds a newborn baby wrapped in white cloth with a pink hat in a hospital setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1516\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0147\/236118712.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink shirt holds a swaddled newborn baby wearing a pink hat in what appears to be a hospital room.\" title=\"A young girl holds a newborn baby wrapped in white cloth with a pink hat in a hospital setting.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0146.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing on a wooden porch with a backpack.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1515\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0146\/2211822581.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink floral dress stands on a wooden porch with a backpack.\" title=\"Young girl posing on a wooden porch with a backpack.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0305.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl poses playfully on a tiled floor.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1522\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0305\/3106361733.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with light brown hair wearing a white tank top and beige shorts sits on a patterned floor looking up at the camera.\" title=\"A young girl poses playfully on a tiled floor.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0018.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A child plays with a ball in an outdoor inflatable pool.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1513\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0018\/109424228.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a blue swimsuit stands waist-deep in an inflatable pool holding a yellow ball.\" title=\"A child plays with a ball in an outdoor inflatable pool.\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM001938.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl poses playfully outside a garage filled with stored items.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1510\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM001938\/992091919.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a purple shirt and yellow shorts stands outside a garage with wood stacked nearby.\" title=\"A young girl poses playfully outside a garage filled with stored items.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/09-30-05_1426.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young child sits with arms outstretched in a cozy setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1491\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/09-30-05_1426\/4073681629.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with curly blonde hair wearing a white fuzzy jacket and brown shoes, sitting with arms outstretched.\" title=\"A young child sits with arms outstretched in a cozy setting.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC00263.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A father pushes his daughter on a swing at a park.\" data-caption-desc=\"A man sits on a swing while holding a toddler, both positioned between two swings at an outdoor playground. The ground is covered in wood chips, and there are blue metal support beams visible to the left. In the background, green trees and residential buildings can be seen under daylight conditions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1588\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/DSC00263\/3318905995.jpg\" alt=\"A man holding a small child on a swing at a playground with wood chips and trees in the background.\" title=\"A father pushes his daughter on a swing at a park.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A man sits on a swing while holding a toddler, both positioned between two swings at an outdoor playground. The ground is covered in wood chips, and there are blue metal support beams visible to the left. In the background, green trees and residential buildings can be seen under daylight conditions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-prev\" title=\"Prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">39<\/span><\/label>\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-next\" title=\"Next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n<p>One of the most difficult things with Amanda when she was young is never really knowing if she was sick with some normal childhood illness, e.g., the flu, or if there was something more problematic going on. As a child, she could tell us what hurt but had no idea why or if it felt like something serious or not. She would also regularly get bladder infections even though she (mostly) used single-use catheters. As she got older, she, of course, learned more about anatomy and, in particular, her peculiar anatomy, and is much better at distinguishing and helping diagnose what might be going on.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"right-sidebar\" style=\"border-color:#000009;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2F323C;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Insurance Companies 1<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">**Aside about medical expenses.<\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>I think a big part of the marital problems stems from Amanda\u2019s health issues. I <em>obviously<\/em> do not blame Amanda or anyone for these and hope she does not think I do, although, at one point during the divorce, it was mentioned that she thought I blamed her. I do not blame her <em>at all<\/em>, but I think we did not handle it well. The lack of sleep simply weighed on everyone over time. This was especially true for Rita (and Amanda) since Rita never trusted that I would wake up; I\u2019m a very sound sleeper. This led to some arguments between Rita and me because I felt if she was always going to get up even when it was my turn, why should I get up too? Rita would then get mad that I wasn\u2019t \u2018helping\u2019 her, but it wasn&#8217;t a two-person job, and there was no sense in both of us being sleep-deprived. Not surprisingly, Rita wound up being very grumpy all the time. I\u2019m sure Amanda likely overheard Rita and l debating how to handle things.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> I <\/span>just hope that she does not feel like she caused the marital problems. She couldn\u2019t help the situation, and Rita and I did not deal with it well.<\/p>\r\n<p>On April 22, 2008, Amelia was born&#8230; without having to be rushed to the NICU. Rita wanted to try one last time to have a &#8220;normal&#8221; pregnancy and birth. Fortunately, it worked out that way, and there really isn&#8217;t anything notable to say about her birth. I recall, however, when we first told Caleb and Amanda that Rita was pregnant with Amelia. We were thinking they would be really happy that they&#8217;d have a new brother or sister. However, as we told them and the news settled in, we could see the worry in their eyes, and they both started to cry. They then started asking us if we could take care of a third kid and telling us how hard it would be. They were worried that there wouldn&#8217;t be enough food. We were not at all prepared for this response, but we assured them things would be fine.<\/p>\r\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-1555 .fg-image { width: 640px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-image-viewer foogallery-link-image foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-image-viewer fg-ready fg-dark fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom fg-no-js\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-1555\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;src&quot;,&quot;srcset&quot;:&quot;srcset&quot;,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;loop&quot;:true,&quot;autoplay&quot;:0}}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fiv-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-inner-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0382-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Bright living room featuring floral sofas and large windows.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a well-lit living room with beige walls, carpeted flooring, and two matching floral-patterned sofas. A sliding glass door with sheer curtains allows natural light to enter, while a red curtain frames a smaller window on the left wall. Decorative elements include three-panel artwork above a built-in shelf displaying kitchen items, a framed picture on the far wall, and a large portrait painting near the right edge. A person is seated in a dark chair in the foreground, partially visible.\" data-attachment-id=\"1617\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0382-scaled\/4293647389.jpeg\" alt=\"A living room with two floral sofas, a sliding glass door, wall art, and a person sitting in a chair.\" title=\"Bright living room featuring floral sofas and large windows.\" width=\"640\" height=\"140\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Bright living room featuring floral sofas and large windows.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a well-lit living room with beige walls, carpeted flooring, and two matching floral-patterned sofas. A sliding glass door with sheer curtains allows natural light to enter, while a red curtain frames a smaller window on the left wall. Decorative elements include three-panel artwork above a built-in shelf displaying kitchen items, a framed picture on the far wall, and a large portrait painting near the right edge. A person is seated in a dark chair in the foreground, partially visible.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0381-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A person poses playfully on a couch in a sparsely furnished room.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a bedroom with light blue walls and hardwood floors. A person is seated on a dark red two-cushion sofa, wearing a striped dress and raising their right arm. To the left is a bed with a blue comforter; to the right are stacked purple boxes, a doorway leading to another room, and a wooden dresser.\" data-attachment-id=\"1616\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0381-scaled\/106616643.jpeg\" alt=\"A person sitting on a maroon couch in a bedroom with blue walls, raising one arm.\" title=\"A person poses playfully on a couch in a sparsely furnished room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"138\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A person poses playfully on a couch in a sparsely furnished room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a bedroom with light blue walls and hardwood floors. A person is seated on a dark red two-cushion sofa, wearing a striped dress and raising their right arm. To the left is a bed with a blue comforter; to the right are stacked purple boxes, a doorway leading to another room, and a wooden dresser.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0368-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Panoramic photo of a bedroom interior featuring exposed brick walls, a bed, and two people visible in different sections.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a panoramic view of a bedroom with exposed brick walls on multiple sides. A girl stands near the right wall next to a bed, while another person is seen taking a photo via a mirror reflection on the left side. There are hanging coats, a clock, and artwork visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1615\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0368-scaled\/3390861805.jpg\" alt=\"A panoramic view of a bedroom with brick walls, a bed, a girl standing near the wall, and a person taking a photo in a mirror.\" title=\"Panoramic photo of a bedroom interior featuring exposed brick walls, a bed, and two people visible in different sections.\" width=\"640\" height=\"138\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Panoramic photo of a bedroom interior featuring exposed brick walls, a bed, and two people visible in different sections.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a panoramic view of a bedroom with exposed brick walls on multiple sides. A girl stands near the right wall next to a bed, while another person is seen taking a photo via a mirror reflection on the left side. There are hanging coats, a clock, and artwork visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0369-1-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child stands next to a bed in a room featuring brick walls, a desk, and large windows.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a bedroom with an exposed brick wall on the left side where two garments hang. A young girl wearing a pink and white striped shirt is standing near a bed with white bedding. To the right, there is a desk area under a window with blinds, a lamp, and various items on shelves.\" data-attachment-id=\"1614\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0369-1-scaled\/60503502.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a striped shirt stands beside a bed in a bedroom with exposed brick walls and a desk area near windows.\" title=\"A child stands next to a bed in a room featuring brick walls, a desk, and large windows.\" width=\"640\" height=\"145\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child stands next to a bed in a room featuring brick walls, a desk, and large windows.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a bedroom with an exposed brick wall on the left side where two garments hang. A young girl wearing a pink and white striped shirt is standing near a bed with white bedding. To the right, there is a desk area under a window with blinds, a lamp, and various items on shelves.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1027-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Children enjoying a long slide at an outdoor fair.\" data-caption-desc=\"A wide, beige plastic slide is set up outdoors on grass under a blue sky. Two young girls are visible: one near the bottom of the slide bending over, and another further up sitting on the slide. To the left, part of a large white Ferris wheel with green and purple gondolas is visible. The slide has red triangular decorations along its sides and a sign reading &#039;FUN SLIDE&#039; at the top.\" data-attachment-id=\"1613\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1027-scaled\/2113827162.jpeg\" alt=\"Two children playing on a large outdoor slide at a fair with a Ferris wheel in the background.\" title=\"Children enjoying a long slide at an outdoor fair.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Children enjoying a long slide at an outdoor fair.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A wide, beige plastic slide is set up outdoors on grass under a blue sky. Two young girls are visible: one near the bottom of the slide bending over, and another further up sitting on the slide. To the left, part of a large white Ferris wheel with green and purple gondolas is visible. The slide has red triangular decorations along its sides and a sign reading 'FUN SLIDE' at the top.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_AQ2JkmbgjoOfsxLk261MPHkK_QND.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A girl poses playfully on a stone trail inside a lush, rocky gorge.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown or blonde hair lies on her stomach on a wet stone pathway within a narrow, rocky canyon. Behind her, a small stream flows down the rock face into a pool below, surrounded by dense green vegetation and towering cliffs.\" data-attachment-id=\"1612\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_AQ2JkmbgjoOfsxLk261MPHkK_QND.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with blonde hair looks surprised while lying on a stone path in a rocky canyon.\" title=\"A girl poses playfully on a stone trail inside a lush, rocky gorge.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A girl poses playfully on a stone trail inside a lush, rocky gorge.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown or blonde hair lies on her stomach on a wet stone pathway within a narrow, rocky canyon. Behind her, a small stream flows down the rock face into a pool below, surrounded by dense green vegetation and towering cliffs.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_0956.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child proudly displays a toy car while wearing safety goggles at an indoor gathering.\" data-caption-desc=\"A smiling young girl with blonde hair, wearing clear safety goggles and a pink shirt under a red apron, holds a colorful toy car in her hands. She stands indoors near white folding tables, possibly at a store event or workshop, with other people visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1611\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_0956.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing safety goggles and a red apron holds a colorful toy car in what appears to be a store or event space.\" title=\"A child proudly displays a toy car while wearing safety goggles at an indoor gathering.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child proudly displays a toy car while wearing safety goggles at an indoor gathering.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A smiling young girl with blonde hair, wearing clear safety goggles and a pink shirt under a red apron, holds a colorful toy car in her hands. She stands indoors near white folding tables, possibly at a store event or workshop, with other people visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_0975.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children enjoying a boat ride on a calm lake.\" data-caption-desc=\"A photograph shows two young girls on the deck of a small boat, both wearing blue life vests. The girl in the foreground has blonde hair and is smiling directly at the camera, while the girl behind her with brown hair looks toward the viewer. They are surrounded by water and trees in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1610\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_0975.jpg\" alt=\"Two young girls wearing blue life vests on a boat; one smiles at the camera while the other sits behind her.\" title=\"Two children enjoying a boat ride on a calm lake.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two children enjoying a boat ride on a calm lake.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A photograph shows two young girls on the deck of a small boat, both wearing blue life vests. The girl in the foreground has blonde hair and is smiling directly at the camera, while the girl behind her with brown hair looks toward the viewer. They are surrounded by water and trees in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1144.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing in a penguin costume.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl stands on a blue mat wearing a black leotard styled as a penguin with an orange bow tie and white belly patches. Her arms are raised above her head, and she is smiling at the camera.\" data-attachment-id=\"1609\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1144.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a black penguin costume with orange bow tie standing on blue mat\" title=\"Young girl posing in a penguin costume.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing in a penguin costume.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl stands on a blue mat wearing a black leotard styled as a penguin with an orange bow tie and white belly patches. Her arms are raised above her head, and she is smiling at the camera.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0297.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby crawling on carpet in a playroom setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child is seen from behind, crawling on a beige carpeted floor. The room contains various items including an electronic drum set, a wooden stool with a cushion, a baby gate with hanging toys, and scattered clothing or blankets. A doll lies nearby on the floor.\" data-attachment-id=\"1608\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0297\/3398901411.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby crawling on a carpeted floor in a room with toys and furniture.\" title=\"Baby crawling on carpet in a playroom setting.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby crawling on carpet in a playroom setting.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child is seen from behind, crawling on a beige carpeted floor. The room contains various items including an electronic drum set, a wooden stool with a cushion, a baby gate with hanging toys, and scattered clothing or blankets. A doll lies nearby on the floor.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0502-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A child stands indoors holding a long stick-like object.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing a blue dress and dark boots stands on a beige carpeted floor, holding a long black stick or wand in their right hand. Behind them is a white cube storage unit with red and black panels containing various items including shoes and bags. A black rectangular object lies on the floor nearby.\" data-attachment-id=\"1607\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0502-scaled\/3359095162.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child in a blue dress holds a long black stick with a small object at the end, standing on carpet near a storage unit.\" title=\"A child stands indoors holding a long stick-like object.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child stands indoors holding a long stick-like object.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing a blue dress and dark boots stands on a beige carpeted floor, holding a long black stick or wand in their right hand. Behind them is a white cube storage unit with red and black panels containing various items including shoes and bags. A black rectangular object lies on the floor nearby.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2711-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing a blue dress and a large lime-green motorcycle helmet stands barefoot on carpeted flooring, pointing with their right hand. The room contains a dark wooden cabinet with a television, a brick fireplace, a floor lamp, a small blue armchair, and part of a piano visible to the right.\" data-attachment-id=\"1606\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_2711-scaled\/3342865429.jpeg\" alt=\"A small child in a blue dress wearing a large green motorcycle helmet stands indoors pointing forward.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Back Camera<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing a blue dress and a large lime-green motorcycle helmet stands barefoot on carpeted flooring, pointing with their right hand. The room contains a dark wooden cabinet with a television, a brick fireplace, a floor lamp, a small blue armchair, and part of a piano visible to the right.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3178-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light brown hair stands on a patterned tile floor, wearing black-rimmed oversized glasses and a large plastic nose. The child has a blue pacifier in their mouth and is dressed in a black long-sleeved top with a red plaid skirt. Wooden kitchen cabinets are visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1605\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3178-scaled\/3479852971.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child wearing oversized glasses and a pacifier stands on a tiled floor in front of wooden cabinets.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Back Camera<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light brown hair stands on a patterned tile floor, wearing black-rimmed oversized glasses and a large plastic nose. The child has a blue pacifier in their mouth and is dressed in a black long-sleeved top with a red plaid skirt. Wooden kitchen cabinets are visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3667-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children rest in a dimly lit crib while gazing at a laptop screen.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows two young children lying side-by-side inside a wooden crib with vertical slats. A large lamp is mounted on the wall above them, casting warm light into the room. One child appears to be looking toward a black laptop placed in front of them, while the other looks slightly away. The scene suggests nighttime or low-light conditions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1604\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3667-scaled\/4151397914.jpeg\" alt=\"Two young children lying in a wooden crib at night, illuminated by a lamp above and looking toward a laptop screen.\" title=\"Two children rest in a dimly lit crib while gazing at a laptop screen.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two children rest in a dimly lit crib while gazing at a laptop screen.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows two young children lying side-by-side inside a wooden crib with vertical slats. A large lamp is mounted on the wall above them, casting warm light into the room. One child appears to be looking toward a black laptop placed in front of them, while the other looks slightly away. The scene suggests nighttime or low-light conditions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0210.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby in a checkered crib.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light skin and very short hair is visible from the chest up, peeking over the edge of a crib. The crib has a blue and white gingham patterned fabric lining and a ruffled skirt at the bottom. Behind the baby, there is a wooden cabinet with glass doors displaying floral patterns, and to the right, a tissue box sits on a surface.\" data-attachment-id=\"1603\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0210\/1812711578.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby with short hair looking forward from inside a blue and white checkered crib.\" title=\"Baby in a checkered crib.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby in a checkered crib.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light skin and very short hair is visible from the chest up, peeking over the edge of a crib. The crib has a blue and white gingham patterned fabric lining and a ruffled skirt at the bottom. Behind the baby, there is a wooden cabinet with glass doors displaying floral patterns, and to the right, a tissue box sits on a surface.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0276.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby wearing a red bowl as a hat.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child in a patterned long-sleeve shirt has a large red plastic bowl balanced on top of their head. The child is looking directly at the camera with one hand raised near the side of the bowl. In the background, there is a blue baby playpen with the brand name &#039;GRACO&#039; visible.\" data-attachment-id=\"1602\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0276\/4182184704.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby wearing a red plastic bowl on their head, looking at the camera with one hand raised.\" title=\"Baby wearing a red bowl as a hat.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby wearing a red bowl as a hat.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child in a patterned long-sleeve shirt has a large red plastic bowl balanced on top of their head. The child is looking directly at the camera with one hand raised near the side of the bowl. In the background, there is a blue baby playpen with the brand name 'GRACO' visible.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0374-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A cheerful child waves from inside a packed walk-in closet.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands inside an open closet, raising her right hand in a wave. The closet contains hanging winter coats, a wire shelf with folded linens and hats, a black shoe organizer, and various items on the floor including paper towels and plastic bags.\" data-attachment-id=\"1601\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0374-scaled\/2539493792.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink striped dress stands smiling with one arm raised inside a cluttered closet filled with hanging coats, shelves, and household items.\" title=\"A cheerful child waves from inside a packed walk-in closet.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A cheerful child waves from inside a packed walk-in closet.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands inside an open closet, raising her right hand in a wave. The closet contains hanging winter coats, a wire shelf with folded linens and hats, a black shoe organizer, and various items on the floor including paper towels and plastic bags.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0375-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A child reaches up to a mirror in a bathroom decorated with blue wallpaper and various toiletries.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a bathroom with blue textured wallpaper, a white toilet with a brown seat cover, a medicine cabinet above it, and a shower area with a dark curtain. A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands near the sink, raising her right arm toward a uniquely shaped mirror on the wall.\" data-attachment-id=\"1600\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0375-scaled\/1205843270.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink striped dress stands in a bathroom with blue patterned wallpaper, reaching toward a mirror while holding a small object.\" title=\"A child reaches up to a mirror in a bathroom decorated with blue wallpaper and various toiletries.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child reaches up to a mirror in a bathroom decorated with blue wallpaper and various toiletries.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a bathroom with blue textured wallpaper, a white toilet with a brown seat cover, a medicine cabinet above it, and a shower area with a dark curtain. A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands near the sink, raising her right arm toward a uniquely shaped mirror on the wall.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0829-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby in a green fuzzy wig with a pacifier.\" data-caption-desc=\"A close-up photo of an infant wearing a bright green, shaggy wig that covers most of their head. The baby has a light blue pacifier in their mouth and is dressed in a white onesie with pink floral patterns and a dark heart graphic on the chest. The background shows a domestic interior with furniture and toys.\" data-attachment-id=\"1599\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0829-rotated\/4134063884.jpg\" alt=\"A baby wearing a green fuzzy wig and a blue pacifier with a heart design on the shirt.\" title=\"Baby in a green fuzzy wig with a pacifier.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby in a green fuzzy wig with a pacifier.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A close-up photo of an infant wearing a bright green, shaggy wig that covers most of their head. The baby has a light blue pacifier in their mouth and is dressed in a white onesie with pink floral patterns and a dark heart graphic on the chest. The background shows a domestic interior with furniture and toys.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0897-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl sits proudly with a small American flag.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with blonde hair is sitting outdoors, wearing a navy blue dress with white stars and red trim. She holds a small American flag on a stick in her hands. A red plastic bucket is visible next to her, and she wears pink shoes.\" data-attachment-id=\"1598\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0897-scaled\/2573890793.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a patriotic dress holding a small American flag.\" title=\"A young girl sits proudly with a small American flag.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl sits proudly with a small American flag.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with blonde hair is sitting outdoors, wearing a navy blue dress with white stars and red trim. She holds a small American flag on a stick in her hands. A red plastic bucket is visible next to her, and she wears pink shoes.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1036.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child enjoys a dragon-themed carnival ride under a bright blue sky.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl sits inside a green and purple plastic dragon-shaped ride vehicle at an outdoor fair or amusement park. The ride features orange lights along its sides and is suspended against a backdrop of a white building with a metal roof and power lines overhead.\" data-attachment-id=\"1597\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1036\/3035676404.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with blonde hair smiles while riding a colorful dragon-shaped amusement park ride on a sunny day.\" title=\"A child enjoys a dragon-themed carnival ride under a bright blue sky.\" width=\"430\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child enjoys a dragon-themed carnival ride under a bright blue sky.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl sits inside a green and purple plastic dragon-shaped ride vehicle at an outdoor fair or amusement park. The ride features orange lights along its sides and is suspended against a backdrop of a white building with a metal roof and power lines overhead.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0047.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A child runs energetically during an outdoor activity.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with blonde hair, wearing a maroon t-shirt and patterned shorts, is captured mid-stride running on a paved surface. She wears bright yellow sneakers with pink accents and white socks. In the background, other children are visible standing on grass near a brick wall; one child to her left wears a long-sleeved maroon shirt and gray shorts, while another in an orange shirt stands partially out of frame.\" data-attachment-id=\"1595\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0047\/3943920234.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a maroon shirt and colorful shorts runs across asphalt while other children stand nearby on grass.\" title=\"A child runs energetically during an outdoor activity.\" width=\"332\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child runs energetically during an outdoor activity.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with blonde hair, wearing a maroon t-shirt and patterned shorts, is captured mid-stride running on a paved surface. She wears bright yellow sneakers with pink accents and white socks. In the background, other children are visible standing on grass near a brick wall; one child to her left wears a long-sleeved maroon shirt and gray shorts, while another in an orange shirt stands partially out of frame.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0372.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling man and young girl pose together for a close-up selfie-style photo indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a man with short hair, glasses, and a dark leather jacket over a buttoned shirt, leaning his head near a young girl with light brown hair wearing a bright pink jacket. They are both looking toward the camera with gentle smiles. In the background, there is indoor greenery and what appears to be a tiled wall section.\" data-attachment-id=\"1594\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0372\/941176944.jpeg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a leather jacket smiles closely with a young girl in a pink jacket; they are indoors near green plants.\" title=\"A smiling man and young girl pose together for a close-up selfie-style photo indoors.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A smiling man and young girl pose together for a close-up selfie-style photo indoors.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a man with short hair, glasses, and a dark leather jacket over a buttoned shirt, leaning his head near a young girl with light brown hair wearing a bright pink jacket. They are both looking toward the camera with gentle smiles. In the background, there is indoor greenery and what appears to be a tiled wall section.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0373-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A joyful child poses playfully on the stairs.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a red and white striped dress stands on carpeted stairs, holding onto a door frame with one hand while her other arm is raised. She appears to be laughing or shouting with her mouth open. The setting includes an interior hallway with wooden flooring visible nearby.\" data-attachment-id=\"1593\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0373-scaled\/3229726285.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a red and white striped dress stands on stairs with arms outstretched near a door.\" title=\"A joyful child poses playfully on the stairs.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A joyful child poses playfully on the stairs.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a red and white striped dress stands on carpeted stairs, holding onto a door frame with one hand while her other arm is raised. She appears to be laughing or shouting with her mouth open. The setting includes an interior hallway with wooden flooring visible nearby.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0388-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Excited child posing playfully in a rustic kitchen.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands in a kitchen, raising one hand while holding the handle of a small refrigerator. Behind her is an exposed brick wall with hanging umbrellas and a black cabinet next to a stainless steel refrigerator adorned with magnets and papers.\" data-attachment-id=\"1592\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0388-scaled\/672684573.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink striped dress stands excitedly in a kitchen with exposed brick walls and stainless steel appliances.\" title=\"Excited child posing playfully in a rustic kitchen.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Excited child posing playfully in a rustic kitchen.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands in a kitchen, raising one hand while holding the handle of a small refrigerator. Behind her is an exposed brick wall with hanging umbrellas and a black cabinet next to a stainless steel refrigerator adorned with magnets and papers.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0919.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing in a bee costume while ice skating.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl stands on white ice skates against a plain background. She wears a yellow and black striped dress with short black sleeves, a black tulle skirt, matching striped knee-high socks, and a headband with two yellow antennae. A yellow flower decoration is attached to the left side of her dress.\" data-attachment-id=\"1591\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0919\/2775849447.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a bee costume with yellow and black stripes, wearing ice skates.\" title=\"Young girl posing in a bee costume while ice skating.\" width=\"245\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing in a bee costume while ice skating.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl stands on white ice skates against a plain background. She wears a yellow and black striped dress with short black sleeves, a black tulle skirt, matching striped knee-high socks, and a headband with two yellow antennae. A yellow flower decoration is attached to the left side of her dress.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1026-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Children playing on a large slide at an outdoor fair.\" data-caption-desc=\"A long, beige plastic slide is set up outdoors on grass at what appears to be a carnival or fair. A young child sits near the bottom of the slide holding a brown cloth, while another small child is further up the slide. To the left, part of a Ferris wheel with green and purple gondolas is visible against a blue sky with scattered clouds.\" data-attachment-id=\"1590\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1026-scaled\/3639155800.jpeg\" alt=\"Two children on a long outdoor slide at a fair with a Ferris wheel in the background.\" title=\"Children playing on a large slide at an outdoor fair.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Children playing on a large slide at an outdoor fair.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A long, beige plastic slide is set up outdoors on grass at what appears to be a carnival or fair. A young child sits near the bottom of the slide holding a brown cloth, while another small child is further up the slide. To the left, part of a Ferris wheel with green and purple gondolas is visible against a blue sky with scattered clouds.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-8-6-12-at-10.49-PM.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A man and a young girl pose together indoors near a brick wall.\" data-caption-desc=\"An indoor photo shows a man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt standing behind a young girl in a striped shirt who is holding her cheeks. A lit lamp is visible to the left, and a brick wall forms the background on the right.\" data-attachment-id=\"1589\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-8-6-12-at-10_49-PM\/2167713866.jpeg\" alt=\"A man with glasses and a beard stands behind a young girl in a striped shirt who is holding her cheeks, both looking toward the camera indoors near a brick wall.\" title=\"A man and a young girl pose together indoors near a brick wall.\" width=\"541\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man and a young girl pose together indoors near a brick wall.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An indoor photo shows a man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt standing behind a young girl in a striped shirt who is holding her cheeks. A lit lamp is visible to the left, and a brick wall forms the background on the right.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0369.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A cheerful child in a colorful outfit smiles brightly for the photo.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown hair is shown from the chest up, wearing a bright blue t-shirt featuring a large butterfly graphic. She has on a turban-style hat made of light blue and white fabric with pink trim. Behind her is a painted backdrop resembling a brick wall or castle structure.\" data-attachment-id=\"1587\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0369.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing a blue shirt with a butterfly design and a light-colored turban-style hat, smiling at the camera.\" title=\"A cheerful child in a colorful outfit smiles brightly for the photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A cheerful child in a colorful outfit smiles brightly for the photo.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown hair is shown from the chest up, wearing a bright blue t-shirt featuring a large butterfly graphic. She has on a turban-style hat made of light blue and white fabric with pink trim. Behind her is a painted backdrop resembling a brick wall or castle structure.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0857.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Child seated on sofa with oversized basket in front.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light hair sits barefoot on a gray couch, holding a large wooden basket that obscures their torso. The basket contains indistinct objects including something red and dark. To the right is a closed blue case or folder; to the left lies a crumpled piece of foil.\" data-attachment-id=\"1586\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0857\/2908619820.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child sitting on a couch holding a large wooden basket with items inside.\" title=\"Child seated on sofa with oversized basket in front.\" width=\"272\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Child seated on sofa with oversized basket in front.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light hair sits barefoot on a gray couch, holding a large wooden basket that obscures their torso. The basket contains indistinct objects including something red and dark. To the right is a closed blue case or folder; to the left lies a crumpled piece of foil.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1530.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Two kids wrestling playfully on a beige carpet.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl in a denim vest and jeans stands over another child lying on their back on a light-colored carpet. The standing child is holding the legs of the child on the floor, who is wearing a brown long-sleeved shirt. In the background, there is a wooden cabinet and a brick fireplace area with some items stored nearby.\" data-attachment-id=\"1585\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1530\/1924687986.jpeg\" alt=\"Two children playing on a carpeted floor; one child stands while the other lies on their back.\" title=\"Two kids wrestling playfully on a beige carpet.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two kids wrestling playfully on a beige carpet.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl in a denim vest and jeans stands over another child lying on their back on a light-colored carpet. The standing child is holding the legs of the child on the floor, who is wearing a brown long-sleeved shirt. In the background, there is a wooden cabinet and a brick fireplace area with some items stored nearby.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3174-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light brown hair stands on a tiled kitchen floor, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt under a red plaid dress. The child wears large round novelty glasses and holds a small blue object in one hand while touching their face with the other. Behind them is a stainless steel refrigerator and an oven.\" data-attachment-id=\"1584\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3174-scaled\/414515689.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child wearing oversized glasses and a plaid dress stands in a kitchen holding a small object.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Back Camera<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light brown hair stands on a tiled kitchen floor, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt under a red plaid dress. The child wears large round novelty glasses and holds a small blue object in one hand while touching their face with the other. Behind them is a stainless steel refrigerator and an oven.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-2010-08-02-at-17.30.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A man rests with a sleeping child on his chest.\" data-caption-desc=\"An adult male wearing glasses and a gray shirt is reclining in a brown upholstered chair. A young child with light hair, wearing a white sleeveless top, sleeps against the man&#039;s chest with a yellow pacifier in their mouth.\" data-attachment-id=\"1583\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-2010-08-02-at-17_30\/2791805426.jpeg\" alt=\"A man with glasses and a beard lies in a chair holding a sleeping child with a pacifier.\" title=\"A man rests with a sleeping child on his chest.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man rests with a sleeping child on his chest.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An adult male wearing glasses and a gray shirt is reclining in a brown upholstered chair. A young child with light hair, wearing a white sleeveless top, sleeps against the man's chest with a yellow pacifier in their mouth.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TalkatoneMessage-2.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Child playing with toys in a bedroom.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing red pajamas with floral patterns stands facing a wooden play kitchen, holding a clear plastic bottle. A stuffed dinosaur toy lies on the carpeted floor near her feet. To the left is a pet cage on a blue mat, and above the kitchen hangs a pendulum clock.\" data-attachment-id=\"1582\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/TalkatoneMessage-2\/992446249.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in pajamas stands at a toy kitchen holding a bottle while a stuffed animal lies on the floor nearby.\" title=\"Child playing with toys in a bedroom.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Child playing with toys in a bedroom.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing red pajamas with floral patterns stands facing a wooden play kitchen, holding a clear plastic bottle. A stuffed dinosaur toy lies on the carpeted floor near her feet. To the left is a pet cage on a blue mat, and above the kitchen hangs a pendulum clock.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1217.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl smiling from inside a car.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with long blonde hair and a pink shirt is seen smiling broadly while leaning her head out of a car window. The background shows green trees and daylight, indicating an outdoor setting during the day.\" data-attachment-id=\"1581\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1217.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with long blonde hair wearing a pink shirt smiles while leaning out of a car window.\" title=\"Young girl smiling from inside a car.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl smiling from inside a car.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with long blonde hair and a pink shirt is seen smiling broadly while leaning her head out of a car window. The background shows green trees and daylight, indicating an outdoor setting during the day.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0383-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling child sits in a cozy living room decorated with striped furniture and natural light.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress is seated on a dark red armchair in a well-lit living room. The room features two sofas with green and white stripes, a glass-topped coffee table, a television on a wooden stand, and large windows with curtains. A brick wall is visible on the right side of the frame.\" data-attachment-id=\"1580\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0383-scaled\/1917375825.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a striped dress sits on a red armchair in a living room with striped sofas and a brick wall.\" title=\"A smiling child sits in a cozy living room decorated with striped furniture and natural light.\" width=\"640\" height=\"198\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A smiling child sits in a cozy living room decorated with striped furniture and natural light.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress is seated on a dark red armchair in a well-lit living room. The room features two sofas with green and white stripes, a glass-topped coffee table, a television on a wooden stand, and large windows with curtains. A brick wall is visible on the right side of the frame.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0371-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing beside a large garment bag in a well-stocked walk-in closet.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands with her arms crossed inside a walk-in closet. To her left hangs a large, light-colored garment bag with the text &#039;WEDDINGTON WAY&#039; printed on it. The background shows shelves filled with shoes, folded items, and hanging clothes.\" data-attachment-id=\"1579\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0371-scaled\/2395959361.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink striped dress stands with arms crossed next to a large garment bag hanging in a closet filled with shoes and clothes.\" title=\"Young girl posing beside a large garment bag in a well-stocked walk-in closet.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing beside a large garment bag in a well-stocked walk-in closet.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands with her arms crossed inside a walk-in closet. To her left hangs a large, light-colored garment bag with the text 'WEDDINGTON WAY' printed on it. The background shows shelves filled with shoes, folded items, and hanging clothes.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/7d0b5aad9e0d581b67f044fd2d0866ce95bc04c2.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl smiles while standing in what appears to be a salon or retail space.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown hair is centered in the frame, wearing a sleeveless top with yellow and white chevron stripes. Behind her to the left is an armchair with a gray and white zigzag pattern; behind her to the right are shelves stocked with numerous bottles of varying colors and sizes, likely hair or beauty products. The floor is tiled green, and there is a window with blinds in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1578\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/7d0b5aad9e0d581b67f044fd2d0866ce95bc04c2\/443984094.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a yellow and white striped tank top stands in front of shelves filled with bottles, smiling at the camera.\" title=\"A young girl smiles while standing in what appears to be a salon or retail space.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl smiles while standing in what appears to be a salon or retail space.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown hair is centered in the frame, wearing a sleeveless top with yellow and white chevron stripes. Behind her to the left is an armchair with a gray and white zigzag pattern; behind her to the right are shelves stocked with numerous bottles of varying colors and sizes, likely hair or beauty products. The floor is tiled green, and there is a window with blinds in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0370-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl in a pink and white striped dress smiles while standing near a staircase.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with shoulder-length brown hair stands smiling, wearing a short-sleeved pink and white horizontal striped dress. She is positioned in a hallway or entryway next to an exposed brick wall on the right and a light green painted wall on the left. Behind her, a wooden staircase ascends toward another room with visible doors.\" data-attachment-id=\"1577\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0370-scaled\/2945035487.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink and white striped dress stands smiling near a doorway with stairs leading upward.\" title=\"A young girl in a pink and white striped dress smiles while standing near a staircase.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl in a pink and white striped dress smiles while standing near a staircase.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with shoulder-length brown hair stands smiling, wearing a short-sleeved pink and white horizontal striped dress. She is positioned in a hallway or entryway next to an exposed brick wall on the right and a light green painted wall on the left. Behind her, a wooden staircase ascends toward another room with visible doors.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0376-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl smiles from inside a room framed by an open wooden door.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown hair stands in the center of the frame, wearing a pink and white horizontal striped dress and black shoes. She is positioned in front of an open wooden door that reveals a blue-walled room behind her. The foreground shows dark wood flooring and parts of adjacent door frames.\" data-attachment-id=\"1576\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0376-scaled\/2497323976.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink and white striped dress stands smiling in a doorway.\" title=\"A young girl smiles from inside a room framed by an open wooden door.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl smiles from inside a room framed by an open wooden door.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown hair stands in the center of the frame, wearing a pink and white horizontal striped dress and black shoes. She is positioned in front of an open wooden door that reveals a blue-walled room behind her. The foreground shows dark wood flooring and parts of adjacent door frames.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1188-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing playfully on a blue mat indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a layered yellow and light green dress stands on a large blue exercise mat inside a room with white walls. She has her arms raised above her head, holding her hair back, and is looking downward with a slight smile. A standard electrical outlet is visible on the wall to her left.\" data-attachment-id=\"1575\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1188-scaled\/3848871355.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a yellow and green dress stands on a blue mat with her hands behind her head.\" title=\"Young girl posing playfully on a blue mat indoors.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing playfully on a blue mat indoors.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a layered yellow and light green dress stands on a large blue exercise mat inside a room with white walls. She has her arms raised above her head, holding her hair back, and is looking downward with a slight smile. A standard electrical outlet is visible on the wall to her left.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0816-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child shares a moment with a squirrel over a colorful cup on the couch.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with shoulder-length blonde hair is seated on a brown couch, wearing a long-sleeved shirt with horizontal stripes in white, green, and dark blue. The child holds a purple plastic cup decorated with colorful letters and dots; a gray squirrel stands beside them, eating from the cup while scattered seeds lie nearby.\" data-attachment-id=\"1574\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0816-scaled\/1100212732.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with blonde hair wearing a striped shirt sits on a couch holding a purple cup while a squirrel eats from it.\" title=\"A child shares a moment with a squirrel over a colorful cup on the couch.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child shares a moment with a squirrel over a colorful cup on the couch.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with shoulder-length blonde hair is seated on a brown couch, wearing a long-sleeved shirt with horizontal stripes in white, green, and dark blue. The child holds a purple plastic cup decorated with colorful letters and dots; a gray squirrel stands beside them, eating from the cup while scattered seeds lie nearby.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0927-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl rides a pony while being assisted by two men near an old shed.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a colorful helmet and purple dress sits on a brown pony with a saddle blanket. A man in a green shirt holds the reins, and another man in a gray shirt stands beside her. They are positioned in front of a weathered wooden structure with a metal roof.\" data-attachment-id=\"1573\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0927-scaled\/362414247.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing a colorful helmet sits on a brown pony being led by two men in front of a rustic wooden shed.\" title=\"A young girl rides a pony while being assisted by two men near an old shed.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl rides a pony while being assisted by two men near an old shed.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a colorful helmet and purple dress sits on a brown pony with a saddle blanket. A man in a green shirt holds the reins, and another man in a gray shirt stands beside her. They are positioned in front of a weathered wooden structure with a metal roof.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0970-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Three young girls posing together at an outdoor gathering.\" data-caption-desc=\"Three young girls stand on grass at what appears to be an outdoor festival or concert. The girl on the left wears glasses and holds a drink; the middle girl is smaller and wears pink; the girl on the right holds a striped paper cup with a straw. In the background, other people sit in folding chairs under tents, with hills visible in the distance.\" data-attachment-id=\"1572\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0970-scaled\/3434392562.jpeg\" alt=\"Three young girls standing outdoors at a festival or event, holding drinks in paper cups.\" title=\"Three young girls posing together at an outdoor gathering.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Three young girls posing together at an outdoor gathering.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Three young girls stand on grass at what appears to be an outdoor festival or concert. The girl on the left wears glasses and holds a drink; the middle girl is smaller and wears pink; the girl on the right holds a striped paper cup with a straw. In the background, other people sit in folding chairs under tents, with hills visible in the distance.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1038.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl smiles while riding a carousel horse at a fair.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with shoulder-length light brown hair is seated on a black carousel horse, smiling broadly at the camera. She wears a sleeveless striped shirt in pastel colors and lime green shorts, holding onto a metal pole with her right hand while extending her left arm outward. The carousel features colorful painted decorations including blue, red, yellow, and pink patterns on the horse&#039;s saddle area. In the background, other people are visible near additional rides under bright daylight conditions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1571\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1038\/3455169684.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling young girl with light brown hair wearing a striped shirt and green shorts rides a black carousel horse at an outdoor fair.\" title=\"A young girl smiles while riding a carousel horse at a fair.\" width=\"344\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl smiles while riding a carousel horse at a fair.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with shoulder-length light brown hair is seated on a black carousel horse, smiling broadly at the camera. She wears a sleeveless striped shirt in pastel colors and lime green shorts, holding onto a metal pole with her right hand while extending her left arm outward. The carousel features colorful painted decorations including blue, red, yellow, and pink patterns on the horse's saddle area. In the background, other people are visible near additional rides under bright daylight conditions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1155-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing confidently in a black dress and red boots.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown hair stands on a bright blue floor mat in an indoor room with beige walls. She is wearing a sleeveless black dress that reaches her knees and shiny red cowboy-style boots. Her right arm is raised behind her head while her left hand rests on her hip, and she looks slightly to the side.\" data-attachment-id=\"1570\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1155-scaled\/3655381358.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl with blonde hair wearing a black dress and red boots posing on a blue mat indoors.\" title=\"Young girl posing confidently in a black dress and red boots.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing confidently in a black dress and red boots.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown hair stands on a bright blue floor mat in an indoor room with beige walls. She is wearing a sleeveless black dress that reaches her knees and shiny red cowboy-style boots. Her right arm is raised behind her head while her left hand rests on her hip, and she looks slightly to the side.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2352-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light brown or blonde hair is standing on a patterned carpet, facing slightly upward toward the camera. The child wears a bright red short-sleeved top with ruffled detailing at the front, a dark blue skirt, and pink shoes. They are holding onto the black straps of a small backpack that has white piping along the edges. Behind them is a plain wall with a partially visible white paper or sign attached near the top.\" data-attachment-id=\"1569\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_2352-scaled\/3451906932.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with blonde hair wearing a red top and blue skirt stands indoors holding the straps of a small backpack.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Back Camera<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light brown or blonde hair is standing on a patterned carpet, facing slightly upward toward the camera. The child wears a bright red short-sleeved top with ruffled detailing at the front, a dark blue skirt, and pink shoes. They are holding onto the black straps of a small backpack that has white piping along the edges. Behind them is a plain wall with a partially visible white paper or sign attached near the top.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4367-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child in a pink helmet rests on a bench at an indoor ice or roller skating rink.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing a pink helmet with white trim, a light gray jacket, dark pants, and roller skates sits on a wooden bench. The child has a name tag pinned to their jacket and is looking toward the camera. In the background, there are other benches, bright overhead lights, and a wall with signage including &#039;3WZ 92.3 FM&#039;.\" data-attachment-id=\"1568\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_4367-scaled\/3223651949.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing a pink helmet and roller skates sits on a wooden bench in an indoor skating rink.\" title=\"A child in a pink helmet rests on a bench at an indoor ice or roller skating rink.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child in a pink helmet rests on a bench at an indoor ice or roller skating rink.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing a pink helmet with white trim, a light gray jacket, dark pants, and roller skates sits on a wooden bench. The child has a name tag pinned to their jacket and is looking toward the camera. In the background, there are other benches, bright overhead lights, and a wall with signage including '3WZ 92.3 FM'.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4368-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Child in roller skates resting on a bench at the ice rink.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing a red helmet, grey jacket, dark pants, and roller skates sits on a yellow wooden bench. The background shows other people and bright lighting typical of an indoor skating facility.\" data-attachment-id=\"1567\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_4368-scaled\/364484963.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing a red helmet and roller skates sits on a yellow bench in an indoor rink.\" title=\"Child in roller skates resting on a bench at the ice rink.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Child in roller skates resting on a bench at the ice rink.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing a red helmet, grey jacket, dark pants, and roller skates sits on a yellow wooden bench. The background shows other people and bright lighting typical of an indoor skating facility.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Messages-Image1197791408.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl sits with a small American flag during what appears to be a patriotic event.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with blonde hair is seated outdoors wearing a navy blue sleeveless dress decorated with white stars and red trim. She holds a miniature American flag in her right hand, and there is a red plastic bucket beside her on the ground. The background includes blurred figures and bright daylight conditions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1566\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/Messages-Image1197791408\/1796525909.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a patriotic dress holding a small American flag and sitting next to a red bucket.\" title=\"A young girl sits with a small American flag during what appears to be a patriotic event.\" width=\"249\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl sits with a small American flag during what appears to be a patriotic event.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with blonde hair is seated outdoors wearing a navy blue sleeveless dress decorated with white stars and red trim. She holds a miniature American flag in her right hand, and there is a red plastic bucket beside her on the ground. The background includes blurred figures and bright daylight conditions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0195.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby learning to walk with a safety harness.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing pink polka-dot pajamas and a blue patterned walking harness stands on a beige carpet. The harness is attached to black straps that extend upward, likely connected to furniture nearby. In the background, there is an office chair with wheels and wooden drawers under a desk.\" data-attachment-id=\"1565\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0195\/2539249384.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby in a walking harness standing on carpet near an office chair.\" title=\"Baby learning to walk with a safety harness.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby learning to walk with a safety harness.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing pink polka-dot pajamas and a blue patterned walking harness stands on a beige carpet. The harness is attached to black straps that extend upward, likely connected to furniture nearby. In the background, there is an office chair with wheels and wooden drawers under a desk.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0272.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Toddler reaches for laptop while standing on a box.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing pink patterned pajamas and a light blue long-sleeve shirt stands barefoot on a floral-patterned box. The child has a pacifier in their mouth and is reaching toward an open laptop placed on a wooden adjustable desk. A printer sits behind the desk, and various household items are visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1564\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0272\/2673555396.jpeg\" alt=\"A toddler with a pacifier stands on a floral box reaching for a laptop on a raised desk.\" title=\"Toddler reaches for laptop while standing on a box.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Toddler reaches for laptop while standing on a box.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing pink patterned pajamas and a light blue long-sleeve shirt stands barefoot on a floral-patterned box. The child has a pacifier in their mouth and is reaching toward an open laptop placed on a wooden adjustable desk. A printer sits behind the desk, and various household items are visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0391.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby sticks tongue out while being held by an adult.\" data-caption-desc=\"A close-up photo shows a young infant wearing a white bib with pink butterfly patterns, looking directly at the camera with its tongue extended. Behind the baby, an adult is partially visible wearing a brown t-shirt with a graphic design on the sleeve that includes clouds and possibly text or imagery resembling a landscape.\" data-attachment-id=\"1563\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0391\/2230898964.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby with a patterned bib sticking its tongue out while sitting in front of an adult wearing a brown shirt.\" title=\"Baby sticks tongue out while being held by an adult.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby sticks tongue out while being held by an adult.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A close-up photo shows a young infant wearing a white bib with pink butterfly patterns, looking directly at the camera with its tongue extended. Behind the baby, an adult is partially visible wearing a brown t-shirt with a graphic design on the sleeve that includes clouds and possibly text or imagery resembling a landscape.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0620.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"An older woman cradles a sleeping newborn baby on a sofa.\" data-caption-desc=\"An elderly woman with short gray curly hair and wire-rimmed glasses sits on a dark upholstered couch, holding a sleeping newborn baby dressed in light pink clothing. She leans forward to kiss the infant&#039;s forehead while resting against patterned cushions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1562\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0620\/3852173309.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly woman with gray curly hair and glasses holds a sleeping newborn baby wrapped in pink clothing on a dark couch.\" title=\"An older woman cradles a sleeping newborn baby on a sofa.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">An older woman cradles a sleeping newborn baby on a sofa.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An elderly woman with short gray curly hair and wire-rimmed glasses sits on a dark upholstered couch, holding a sleeping newborn baby dressed in light pink clothing. She leans forward to kiss the infant's forehead while resting against patterned cushions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1561.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Toddler watching snow fall from inside a home.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light hair stands barefoot on carpeted flooring inside a house, wearing a pink and white striped jacket over patterned pajamas. The child holds a small blue object in one hand and looks toward the camera. Through a large sliding glass door behind them, snow is falling outside, where another person in a blue hooded coat sits near a snowman.\" data-attachment-id=\"1561\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1561\/184790618.jpeg\" alt=\"A toddler in a pink striped jacket stands indoors holding a small object, looking toward the camera while snow falls outside through a sliding glass door.\" title=\"Toddler watching snow fall from inside a home.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Toddler watching snow fall from inside a home.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light hair stands barefoot on carpeted flooring inside a house, wearing a pink and white striped jacket over patterned pajamas. The child holds a small blue object in one hand and looks toward the camera. Through a large sliding glass door behind them, snow is falling outside, where another person in a blue hooded coat sits near a snowman.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0146.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A peaceful newborn baby resting in a hospital crib.\" data-caption-desc=\"A newborn infant lies on its back in a hospital bassinet, covered partially by a white towel and patterned blanket. The baby has a heart rate monitor electrode attached to the chest with a wire running across the body. Nearby are medical supplies including alcohol prep pads and a bulb syringe, indicating post-birth care.\" data-attachment-id=\"1560\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0146\/2879651348.jpeg\" alt=\"A newborn baby sleeping in a hospital bassinet with medical monitoring equipment attached.\" title=\"A peaceful newborn baby resting in a hospital crib.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A peaceful newborn baby resting in a hospital crib.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A newborn infant lies on its back in a hospital bassinet, covered partially by a white towel and patterned blanket. The baby has a heart rate monitor electrode attached to the chest with a wire running across the body. Nearby are medical supplies including alcohol prep pads and a bulb syringe, indicating post-birth care.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0623.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A grandfather holds his newborn baby in a cozy living room setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"An older man with thinning hair, wearing a dark graphic t-shirt and light-colored pants, sits in a beige upholstered armchair. He is cradling a sleeping infant dressed in pink clothing. In the background, there is a blue patterned sofa with folded pink fabric on it, a small wooden side table with papers and a tissue box, and a window letting in natural light.\" data-attachment-id=\"1559\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0623\/471923970.jpg\" alt=\"An older man in a dark t-shirt sits in a beige armchair holding a sleeping newborn baby wrapped in pink clothing.\" title=\"A grandfather holds his newborn baby in a cozy living room setting.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A grandfather holds his newborn baby in a cozy living room setting.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An older man with thinning hair, wearing a dark graphic t-shirt and light-colored pants, sits in a beige upholstered armchair. He is cradling a sleeping infant dressed in pink clothing. In the background, there is a blue patterned sofa with folded pink fabric on it, a small wooden side table with papers and a tissue box, and a window letting in natural light.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3753-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler holds a large head of lettuce while sitting on a bed surrounded by toys and boxes.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing pink pajamas with snowflake patterns sits cross-legged on a bed, holding a large head of lettuce wrapped partially in clear plastic. Behind the child are cardboard boxes, books, and various household items, including a globe and a toy figure. To the right, a tablet screen is visible displaying colorful content.\" data-attachment-id=\"1558\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3753-scaled\/2714872418.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child in pink pajamas sits on a bed holding a large head of lettuce wrapped in plastic near their face.\" title=\"A toddler holds a large head of lettuce while sitting on a bed surrounded by toys and boxes.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A toddler holds a large head of lettuce while sitting on a bed surrounded by toys and boxes.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing pink pajamas with snowflake patterns sits cross-legged on a bed, holding a large head of lettuce wrapped partially in clear plastic. Behind the child are cardboard boxes, books, and various household items, including a globe and a toy figure. To the right, a tablet screen is visible displaying colorful content.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_AYwabNaRGb4uRNs6NMrDNxD8HkD.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Three individuals posing together outdoors against a layered rock wall.\" data-caption-desc=\"A man wearing a cap and glasses stands on the left, a young girl with blonde hair is in the center, and a boy in a graphic t-shirt and jeans is on the right. They are positioned in front of a large, textured stone cliff or rock formation.\" data-attachment-id=\"1557\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_AYwabNaRGb4uRNs6NMrDNxD8HkD.jpg\" alt=\"Three people standing in front of a rocky cliff face, smiling at the camera.\" title=\"Three individuals posing together outdoors against a layered rock wall.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Three individuals posing together outdoors against a layered rock wall.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A man wearing a cap and glasses stands on the left, a young girl with blonde hair is in the center, and a boy in a graphic t-shirt and jeans is on the right. They are positioned in front of a large, textured stone cliff or rock formation.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1136.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child presents a long, oversized check-like object inside a room.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a purple and blue zip-up jacket stands indoors holding a very long, thin, white rectangular object that resembles an oversized ceremonial bank check. She is positioned next to a window with a view of snow outside, and the object extends vertically beyond her reach.\" data-attachment-id=\"1556\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1136.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a purple jacket holds a long white object resembling a ceremonial check indoors near a window.\" title=\"A child presents a long, oversized check-like object inside a room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child presents a long, oversized check-like object inside a room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a purple and blue zip-up jacket stands indoors holding a very long, thin, white rectangular object that resembles an oversized ceremonial bank check. She is positioned next to a window with a view of snow outside, and the object extends vertically beyond her reach.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-prev\" title=\"Prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">60<\/span><\/label>\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-next\" title=\"Next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-7\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P9.mp3?_=7\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P9.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P9.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Shoe Store<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As I mentioned previously, Rita worked in a Stride Rite children\u2019s shoe store for a few years while I was a graduate student. She seemed to enjoy it for the most part and had learned a lot about the children\u2019s shoe business.<\/p>\r\n<p>Shortly after Amanda was born, we went to the local Stride Rite to get shoes for Caleb and saw they were closing. We inquired about this and were told the owners were getting divorced and selling the story to divide the assets. Since Rita had experience managing a children\u2019s shoe store, we discussed buying it. Looking at their tax returns for the prior three years, it was pretty clear the store was making money. We knew they were pretty desperate to sell, so we simply offered to purchase the inventory. They accepted, and we were owners of a children\u2019s shoe store.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was pretty clear in 2002 that the future of retail was online, but I thought parents would really want to have their children try shoes on before buying them. Plus, I had looked into e-commerce software and thought it wouldn\u2019t be too hard to develop an online presence that might combine the ease of online shopping with the benefits of making sure the shoes fit. By the time we closed the store, even Stride Rite, who had always emphasized how the people at their stores had been trained to make sure the shoes fit well, was selling online. However, I think the two things that really hurt the business were Zappos\u2019 free delivery\/returns and not competing on selection. I\u2019d heard from several colleagues that they would buy three or four pairs from Zappos and return those that didn\u2019t fit well. Obviously, the price of shipping was included in the price of the shoes, but the convenience outweighed the higher cost for most people.<\/p>\r\n<p>With the ability to store shoes in cheap warehouse space&#8211;not in a small retail store&#8211;and deep pockets to keep many shoes in stock, Zappos could simply offer people a much wider selection than we could. One of the difficulties in the shoe business, especially the children\u2019s shoe business, is maintaining inventory. When you multiply the number of styles by the number of sizes and then by two or three different widths, you get some huge numbers. Plus, you needed to place orders months in advance, and there is usually no way to replenish inventory once popular styles sell out. I think large chain stores had more clout with the manufacturers to refresh inventory, and they also had the ability to move shoes from store to store.<\/p>\r\n<p>A change we made at the outset was to no longer be an official Stride Rite franchise. There was no franchise fee, but Stride Rite required that 80% of your inventory had to be their shoes. Rita wanted to sell New Balance, Sketchers, Elefanten, and Nike shoes, and Robeez slippers. There was no way we would be able to maintain an 80% Stride Rite inventory. In hindsight, I\u2019m not sure how they would have really ever known since I don\u2019t recall a Stride Rite representative visiting the store. Although, maybe if we kept the Stride Rite name, they would have checked. We decided to call the store Small Feats Footwear.<\/p>\r\n<p>With all of the turmoil in our lives at that time, I think this was not a very smart decision in hindsight. I was still an assistant professor, and while Caleb was doing well, we knew Amanda had a lot ahead of her. The plan was to hire people to work there for a few years as things with Amanda stabilized. Unfortunately, it was hard to find reliable employees, although we did find a few. However, they were often students who moved on when they graduated. Plus, we could really only afford to have one person there at a time. This resulted in a lot of laziness because there was no other person to tell us their coworker was not doing anything.<\/p>\r\n<p>I also learned that running a small business is a lot of work. Advertising is something that I don\u2019t think we ever really understood well. It was expensive and hard to tell if it was working. We advertised on the radio and local television a bit but never really could quantify how or if it benefitted sales. We also sent out many mailers and participated in coupon packs you often get in the mail. The postcard advertisements we send were probably the most effective as they were targeted at prior customers. They were also relatively cheap. If we still operated the store, I\u2019m sure we would have replaced these with email, which would have been significantly cheaper without having the postcards printed and paying the postage to mail them.<\/p>\r\n<p>I developed a point-of-sale system that could also act as a website for online sales, which we never really deployed. I used an open-source e-commerce web application called osCommerce written in the scripting language PHP and used an open-source database to store information. One benefit of this was that it allowed me to learn to program in PHP and interface software with a database. I made many custom modifications to osCommerce to fit the needs of a shoe store and added inventory tracking and payroll\/accounting pieces to it.<\/p>\r\n<p>One of the problems I saw with the normal shoe store model of having samples on display and a back room full of inventory was that most of the time, kids left disappointed because they would see a style they really liked on the showroom floor. However, the particular size they needed was not in stock. When we moved locations, we decided to use a new strategy of having everything on display. I built about 20 large shelving units with sloped shelves at eye level for displaying shoes and cabinets above and below for storing the boxes. To try to prevent theft, we kept one shoe on display and the other in the box in the cabinets. With this arrangement, parents could simply have their kids\u2019 feet measured and take them to the section containing their size to pick from what we had. This seemed to work well.<\/p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, the shoe store never made any money, and we wound up with a lot of debt from it. While the Robeez slippers always sold well, we simply could not compete with the inventory and convenience of Zappos. We tried buying and selling used children\u2019s clothes for a while, but that didn\u2019t seem to help things much. I learned a lot from that experience, but the lessons were costly.\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-8\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P10.mp3?_=8\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P10.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P10.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h2>A Tragedy<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Just after midnight on November 16, 2002, we were awakened by a telephone call. We didn\u2019t make it to the phone in time to answer it and figured it was probably a wrong number or something. However, when the phone rang again, we knew it was something serious. It was Rita&#8217;s brother Mark, and when I heard Rita say, \u201cMark, please tell me it&#8217;s not true. Please, Mark. Tell me it\u2019s not true.\u201d I realized that something terrible had happened. I first assumed it was something about her mother or father, but after what seemed like forever for Rita to regain her composure, she finally said, \u201cthe boys are dead.&#8221; \u201cThe boys\u201d were my three nephews who were 13, 10, and 7 years old at the time and lived in Milan, the town in which I was raised.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is probably the worst experience I have ever been through. It occurred seven months before my mother passed away and a year after Amanda was born. Rita (especially) and I were very close with the oldest boy, who we took care of regularly when he was a baby.<\/p>\r\n<p>I am not completely sure of the details, but from what I understand, an electrical fire started in a small attic space next to where the boys had their bedroom. They think maybe when the house had a new roof installed, a nail might have shorted some wires. The fire apparently smoldered for several hours during the evening. When it finally burned through the bedroom wall near the top of the stairs, a great deal of heat had built up and now, given ample oxygen, almost immediately engulfed the stairwell and much of the bedroom. At this point, the fire alarms went off, but the upstairs bedroom was cut off from the downstairs where Rita&#8217;s sister and her husband were sleeping. They immediately called for help but were blocked from going up the stairs. They then went outside and tried with a ladder to get to the only window away from the heart of the fire. They could not reach the window because the ladder was too short. Once they found something to elevate the ladder further, the fire was simply too hot even to approach the window; it melted the vinyl siding on their neighbor\u2019s house.<\/p>\r\n<p>This was a tragedy that one would like to think was caused by negligence, so you can tell yourself it couldn\u2019t happen to you. However, it really seems like nothing could have been done. Everything that could have gone wrong did.<\/p>\r\n<p>I hope that the boys were overcome by the smoke and passed out because they were burned beyond recognition. Some volunteer firefighters were burned through their protective gear trying to get to the boys. One was the brother of a high school friend who apparently went through many months of therapy trying to deal with what he saw.<\/p>\r\n<p>My brother drove up from the Washington, D.C., area to help with things, and he wound up driving all of us to Michigan. On the way there, just as we were getting out of State College, I started having severe pains in my abdomen. At first, I thought maybe it was just from the stress. However, as the pain intensified, I asked Lee to pull into a gas station because I thought maybe it was severe gas pain. I could barely walk to the bathroom and realized I needed to be seen by a doctor. We were very close to the local hospital, so we took a detour there. I was admitted to the E.R. and informed that I had a kidney stone. I had never had one before, so I was not familiar with the pain. Fortunately, it passed quickly, the pain almost immediately went away, and it didn\u2019t delay our arrival in Michigan too long. I had another kidney stone a couple of years later but have not had one since. It could not have happened at a worse time.<\/p>\r\n<p>The aftermath of this is still an issue for me, and I assume for Rita. She regularly cried for a year, was then depressed for many more years, and was then upset that her memories of her nephews were fading.<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019m sure Amanda doesn\u2019t remember anything about this as she was just over a year old. However, Caleb was four at the time. I\u2019m not sure what he still remembers, but I suspect a lot. We talked to a counselor about how to help him deal with this as he was very close to his cousins. The counselor told us he was really too young to be concerned about his own death. However, he didn\u2019t seem to be doing well, so we had the counselor see him a few times. It turns out that he wasn\u2019t afraid of dying, but he was afraid that if he did die, it would make everyone very sad, and he didn\u2019t want that to happen again. I\u2019m not sure if this is the reason, but he has a tremendous amount of empathy now.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that David would now be **, Dustin **, and Anthony **. When you die, you stop aging; they are still children in the only memories I have of them. It was like my own children caught up to and passed their cousins as they aged.<\/p>\r\n<p>I also suspect that this incident really altered the course of my marriage as I suspect that Rita\u2019s sister and mother, who live very close to one another in Michigan, pushed very hard for Rita to move so our kids could somehow fill the void left by the death of my nephews.<\/p>\r\n<p>I wrote much of this many years ago, but it still makes me cry as I edit it now.<\/p>\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-9\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P11.mp3?_=9\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P11.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P11.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Stroke (and Another)<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>One evening in the fall of 2011, I was sitting at home on the couch while Rita took the kids to get takeout for dinner. Suddenly the room started spinning, and when I closed my eyes, I had a hard time keeping myself from tilting to the right. It was like &#8216;up&#8217; was in a different direction, and to keep from tipping over on the couch, I needed to lean to the right. It was very odd. At first, I thought something had happened in my inner ear as my equilibrium was way off. I tried to stand up, but there was no way I could keep my balance. I then crawled over to the end table to get my phone and called Rita, who I suspect immediately called 911.<\/p>\r\n<p>After I hung up the phone, I started to sweat more than I think I ever have. My hair and shirt were soaked in minutes. I also started to feel extremely nauseous and thought I was going to vomit. I think Rita arrived before the ambulance did. I really had no idea what was going on but was oddly not that worried about it. By the time the ambulance arrived, I felt a little better but still had to be wheeled out of the house into the ambulance. They took me to the E.R. at Mount Nittany Medical Center. By the time I arrived at the hospital, maybe 15 minutes later, I felt significantly better.<\/p>\r\n<p>At the hospital, they did a scan to see if blood flow was constricted anywhere. At the time, I don\u2019t even think I realized that they were checking to see if I had had a stroke. After the tests, they took me back to the E.R., and at that point, I was feeling pretty much normal. The doctor came in and said I\u2019d had a vertebral artery dissection (which sounded to me a lot worse than it is) and a mini-stroke. I was shocked. I really had no idea what I\u2019d experienced was as serious as a stroke.<\/p>\r\n<p>I was taken to Geisinger Medical Center, a much larger medical facility, by ambulance. I spent about three days there under close observation as they were afraid another clot could form. They had me on strong blood thinners to try to prevent this. For about a week after I was released, I had to give myself shots of blood thinner that caused huge bruises around the injection site. I then took Coumadin for many months and had to get the levels checked to adjust the dose frequently.<\/p>\r\n<p>An arterial dissection happens when the interior wall of the artery tears away, creating a flap of tissue. This will eventually heal, but a clot can form from the stagnant blood that gets trapped by the flap. When this clot breaks free, it can travel into the brain and eventually reach a blood vessel too small for it to pass. This cuts off blood flow to whatever region of the brain was supplied blood by this vessel.<\/p>\r\n<p>People have vertebral arteries on each side of their neck that run alongside the carotid arteries and provide blood to the brain. As you can see in the illustration, the vertebral arteries snake around the vertebrae and this tortuous path can cause wear on the artery. The illustration makes it pretty clear that at the location pointed to by the top arrow, contorting your neck can put a lot of strain on this artery. It turns out vertebral artery dissections are actually not that uncommon. They are sometimes caused inadvertently by chiropractors and people \u201ccracking\u201d their necks. Painters are at risk for this because they often look up for extended periods as they paint ceilings. People that have connective tissue issues are also at much higher risk.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"right-sidebar\" style=\"border-color:#000009;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2F323C;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Health Insurance 2<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">An extremely frustrating and somewhat humorous interaction with my insurance resulted from this. The first time I was transported by ambulance to the larger hospital (about 90 miles away), my insurance paid for it. The second time they refused. I spent days on the phone with the hospital, the ambulance company, and my insurance to figure out why this was. I think the bill came to over $10,000, so I really did not want to have to pay for it. I went around and around with them, with the hospital telling me they\u2019d provided the same diagnosis code to the insurance in each case and referring me to the ambulance service. The ambulance service said the doctor must have deemed the trip not medically necessary. I kept telling the insurance company that it was the doctors in the E.R. that sent me by ambulance to Geisinger, so it was obviously medically necessary.<\/p>\r\n<p>In the end, I learned that there was a second code provided to the insurance by the ambulance company. Apparently, this diagnosis was provided by an EMT in the ambulance. I have no idea why the insurance company would rely on this, but they did. In the first ambulance trip, the EMT had \u201cdiagnosed\u201d me with a cerebral hemorrhage which I, fortunately, did not actually have. In the second case, the EMT \u201cdiagnosed\u201d me with a headache. Argh!! Ultimately, I convinced the insurance that there was no way an E.R. doctor would send me by ambulance to a hospital 90 miles away for a headache.<\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>I did not belong to any of these categories and had not been to a chiropractor recently. However, sometimes they simply happen for no apparent reason. I asked the neurologist I saw after getting out of the hospital if I should or should not do anything to prevent this from happening again. He basically said to avoid having chiropractors do anything to my neck and not &#8220;crack&#8221; it, which I never did anyway. Other than that, he said it was probably just a fluke thing and would likely never happen again.<\/p>\r\n<p>Oddly enough, it happened again almost a year to the day after the first one. This time I was in my office at Penn State, and the symptoms were very different. Instead of being dizzy and disoriented, my left side went numb. I stumbled out of my office to get my assistant, who drove me to the local hospital. They again did the same tests and told me that I\u2019d had another vertebral artery dissection and another mini-stroke. However, this time it was the artery on the other side of my neck. I was again taken by ambulance to Geisinger Medical Center for another three days of observation. Later, the neurologist said he\u2019d never in 25 years of practice seen someone that had had two of these. He essentially said I was just extremely unlucky. I was really hoping I could learn what might have caused them, but I never did. Now, I simply take a baby aspirin each day to help prevent a clot if another dissection occurs. Fortunately, while I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve had another dissection, I have not had another mini-stroke.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-10\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P4.mp3?_=10\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P4.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P4.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Stay by the Bay<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"right-sidebar\" style=\"border-color:#000009;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2F323C;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Hills<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">\r\n<div id=\"attachment_792-2\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-792-2\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-792\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/up-marin-keeler_slant2-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/up-marin-keeler_slant2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/up-marin-keeler_slant2.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-792-2\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If only the road were level.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>While I had visited Berkeley when deciding where to go for graduate school, I really didn&#8217;t appreciate how mountainous it is. Thus, when we moved to the Hill-Road house with a U-Haul towing an old VW Beetle, I looked at the map for the easiest way to get there. If you zoom out a few times on the map, you&#8217;ll see Marin Ave to the northwest. Marin Ave., being straight, seemed like a great route to get to Grizzly Peak avoiding the labyrinth of all the other roads. Being from southeastern Michigan, I never considered the elevation change; a road called Grizzly Peak should have clued me in. At the time, I didn&#8217;t know that Marin Ave. had been constructed as a trolley route and was a road no one really used because it went straight up the mountain, roughly 700 feet over about 0.8 miles, a 25% (30% maximum) grade. It is the steepest road in the SF Bay Area and legendary with hardcore cyclists. Going up is rough on a car&#8217;s clutch\/torque-converter and going down is rough on the brakes, so people rarely used it.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_793-2\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793-2\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-793\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/view-from-creston1-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/view-from-creston1-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/view-from-creston1.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-793-2\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the top of Marin Ave. over the San Francisco Bay<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>We got maybe a fourth of the way up the road before it was clear we needed to rethink the route. Unfortunately, this was 1993, and we didn&#8217;t have a detailed map of the area. Thus, we turned off Marin, unhitched the car, and continued up separately. I don&#8217;t recall the details, but I suspect I drove the car because it had a manual transmission. There was a stop sign at every intersection, and starting from a stop on a 25% grade with a clutch is quite tricky. I either used some fancy footwork with one foot on both the brake and gas pedals or, more likely, used the emergency brake. <\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>The time I spent in the San Francisco Bay Area&#8211;in and around Berkeley&#8211;was probably some of the most enjoyable of my life. The first semester was stressful for a few reasons. First, I had never lived in an urban area, especially with a population density as high as it was. It took a long time to become accustomed to everything you wanted to do taking more time than you thought it would. Traffic was <em>always<\/em> a nightmare both on the expressways and the surface streets. Parking was always a problem; I had never had to circle a grocery store parking lot for 15 minutes to park. Lines everywhere were always extremely long. The DMV was a nightmare but lines in grocery stores usually extended down the aisles. At first, this was extremely frustrating, but there was nothing you could do about it. You had to simply learn to give yourself extra time and not stress too much about getting things done quickly.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 10pt;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d305.0387930650031!2d-122.25172803072934!3d37.887656134677684!2m3!1f0!2f39.28327254235046!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f35!3m3!1m2!1s0x80857c11d49cb281%3A0x9da8ebec249221a1!2s37%20Hill%20Rd%2C%20Berkeley%2C%20CA%2094708!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1616011007189!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"400\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p>The other stress when we first moved to Berkeley was the living situation. My aunt had a friend whose mother, Alicemary, rented part of her house in the Berkeley Hills to students and was looking for a new tenant. The house wasn&#8217;t particularly nice, but it was on a million-dollar lot at the very top of the Berkeley Hills. Grizzly Peak ran along the crest of the mountain, and Hill Road rose above it. Our next-door neighbor (in the house to the southeast that looks more like a commercial building) was Donald Glazer, a Nobel Prize-winning physics professor. What isn&#8217;t particularly clear from the map is the topology. 37 Hill Road is at an elevation of almost 1200 feet, and the bus stop to the west is nearly 100 feet below. Walking up the hill from the bus stop was pretty good exercise.<\/p>\r\n<p>The deal was that we would take care of the property, house, and three dogs in exchange for not paying rent as Alicemary was too old to maintain the property. Taking care of the property was not an easy job. We were asked to rejuvenate and maintain the elaborate tiered garden that is now a grassy slope to the west of the house; it was completely overgrown with weeds and brush when we arrived. Not only were the plants all dead, but the wooden walkways that zigzagged down the hill and the watering system were falling apart. It really needed a professional gardener and landscaper to redo everything completely. We tried, but nothing we did seemed to be enough. We also learned that one of the dogs wasn&#8217;t house trained and would pee all over the house. This prompted the other dogs to do the same. I&#8217;d never house trained a dog, and Rita tried her best, but he&#8217;d been peeing in the house for so long that it was tough to change his behavior. 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The surrounding area includes mature trees and distant hills under a clear blue sky.\" data-attachment-id=\"810\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/03\/37HillRoad\/4169823944.jpg\" alt=\"Modern white house with garage on hillside overlooking valley\" title=\"Street view of 37 Hill Road.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Street view of 37 Hill Road.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A contemporary single-story residence features a large garage door and minimalist architecture, situated above a landscaped garden with red flowers and stone pathways. The surrounding area includes mature trees and distant hills under a clear blue sky.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ViewFromBerkeleyHills.png\" data-caption-title=\"View from Hill Road looking over San Francisco Bay.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows an elevated landscape view featuring a modern building on the left, dense greenery in the foreground, and a sprawling urban area extending toward a large body of water with distant hills. Two white L-shaped markers are visible among the trees in the mid-ground.\" data-attachment-id=\"812\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/03\/ViewFromBerkeleyHills\/2336792481.png\" alt=\"A view from Berkeley Hills overlooking a city and bay with two white L-shaped markers in the foreground\" title=\"View from Hill Road looking over San Francisco Bay.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">View from Hill Road looking over San Francisco Bay.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows an elevated landscape view featuring a modern building on the left, dense greenery in the foreground, and a sprawling urban area extending toward a large body of water with distant hills. Two white L-shaped markers are visible among the trees in the mid-ground.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/dd71c86f8327be42497a67e392a2ccf9-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"View from Hill Road over San Francisco Bay.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a wide-angle landscape featuring a densely built urban area in the lower left, a large body of water in the center, and a distant city skyline under a cloudy sky. A bridge spans part of the waterway, and green hills occupy the immediate foreground.\" data-attachment-id=\"814\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/03\/dd71c86f8327be42497a67e392a2ccf9-scaled\/2457631866.jpg\" alt=\"A distant view of a city skyline across a bay, with hills in the foreground and clouds overhead.\" title=\"View from Hill Road over San Francisco Bay.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">View from Hill Road over San Francisco Bay.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a wide-angle landscape featuring a densely built urban area in the lower left, a large body of water in the center, and a distant city skyline under a cloudy sky. A bridge spans part of the waterway, and green hills occupy the immediate foreground.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-prev\" title=\"Prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">3<\/span><\/label>\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-next\" title=\"Next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n<p>Unfortunately, between the time we agreed to this deal and moved in, Alicemary&#8217;s health got much worse. When we first arrived, she was in a nursing home but came home soon after. Thus, taking care of Alicemary became part of our (i.e., mostly Rita&#8217;s) job. Obviously, Rita could not provide the needed medical care, so the family hired in-home nurses. Things from the house then started disappearing. It was very awkward because it seemed we were being blamed for this, either for actually taking the stuff or for not preventing it. I don&#8217;t remember the timing, but before the end of my first semester at UC-Berkeley, Alicemary passed away. I suspect this may have been in October or November. After that, Alicemary&#8217;s daughter essentially moved in. Her other daughter&#8217;s ex-husband then effectively moved in. Yes, it was an odd situation, and it was clear that Rita and I needed to find a new place. One good thing about living in the Berkeley Hills was that it allowed us to learn the area and make a much more informed decision about places to live. Thus, shortly thereafter, we moved to an apartment in a city just north of Berkeley, El Cerrito.<\/p>\r\n<p>Rita found a job at a Stride Rite store in a nearby shopping center. The apartment was very close to a BART (subway) stop, so I commuted to school that way most of the time. Fortunately, at this point, I had found an adviser and had a desk in a lab. Thus, I could basically treat school like work. I recall that we lived here for about two years before getting a spot in &#8220;family housing.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>Northern California is a great place to live if you&#8217;re not trying to raise a family. Thus, as a student with no children, I was able to take full advantage of the area. Rita and I went on three whitewater rafting trips; two down the south fork of the American River and an overnight trip down the Klamath River. The Klamath River trip was great as we explored some beautiful areas near the river when we stopped to make camp. This trip was at the end of August 1997, as I recall hearing Princess Diana had died on the trip home. We went to wine country (Napa and Sonoma Valleys) a couple of times. We camped and explored the area around Big Sur on three or four occasions. We explored Monterrey, Carmel, and Santa Cruz. We went to Yosemite and camped near Mammoth Mountain, Mono Lake, and Lake Tahoe. We spent a few days during the winter near Donner Lake (near Lake Tahoe) in a cabin owned by my thesis adviser. I&#8217;d never seen so much snow; the cabin spent much of the winter nearly entirely buried.<\/p>\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-11\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P5.mp3?_=11\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P5.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P5.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Son<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-1866_1 .fg-image { width: 640px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-image-viewer foogallery-link-image foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-image-viewer fg-ready fg-dark fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom fg-no-js\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-1866_1\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;src&quot;,&quot;srcset&quot;:&quot;srcset&quot;,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;loop&quot;:true,&quot;autoplay&quot;:0}}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fiv-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-inner-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/238.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby with oversized glasses.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows an infant with a shaved head wearing thick-rimmed glasses and a light-colored long-sleeved shirt. The child is seated against a plain dark backdrop, resting hands on a surface with striped fabric visible at the bottom edge.\" data-attachment-id=\"1823\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/238.jpg\" alt=\"A baby wearing large glasses and a white shirt sitting in front of a dark background.\" title=\"Baby with oversized glasses.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby with oversized glasses.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows an infant with a shaved head wearing thick-rimmed glasses and a light-colored long-sleeved shirt. The child is seated against a plain dark backdrop, resting hands on a surface with striped fabric visible at the bottom edge.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_49b1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Child in festive holiday costume sitting on a sofa.\" data-caption-desc=\"A toddler is seated on a dark-colored couch, wearing a blue outfit that includes a long-sleeved shirt with cartoon graphics and a matching hat featuring red antlers. The child has light skin and short hair visible beneath the hat.\" data-attachment-id=\"1865\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_49b1.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing a blue hat with red antlers and a matching blue shirt sits on a couch.\" title=\"Child in festive holiday costume sitting on a sofa.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Child in festive holiday costume sitting on a sofa.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A toddler is seated on a dark-colored couch, wearing a blue outfit that includes a long-sleeved shirt with cartoon graphics and a matching hat featuring red antlers. The child has light skin and short hair visible beneath the hat.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_46e0.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A candid black and white family portrait featuring three individuals.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a man wearing glasses looking upward while holding a baby wrapped in a blanket or hooded garment. To his right stands a smiling boy wearing a dark t-shirt with a graphic design on it. The photo is monochrome and appears to be taken indoors.\" data-attachment-id=\"1864\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_46e0.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a man holding a baby wearing a hat, with another boy smiling in the background.\" title=\"A candid black and white family portrait featuring three individuals.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A candid black and white family portrait featuring three individuals.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a man wearing glasses looking upward while holding a baby wrapped in a blanket or hooded garment. To his right stands a smiling boy wearing a dark t-shirt with a graphic design on it. The photo is monochrome and appears to be taken indoors.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_Caleb7_20_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A woman smiles while holding two babies, one of whom is playfully hiding behind a large white plate.\" data-caption-desc=\"A woman with dark hair tied back smiles broadly at the camera while holding two young children. The child on the left holds a large white circular object in front of their face, partially obscuring it, while the child on the right looks toward the camera. In the background, two men sit against a wooden fence.\" data-attachment-id=\"1863\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_Caleb7_20_1024\/557373906.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman holds two babies; one baby holds a large white circular object in front of his face.\" title=\"A woman smiles while holding two babies, one of whom is playfully hiding behind a large white plate.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A woman smiles while holding two babies, one of whom is playfully hiding behind a large white plate.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A woman with dark hair tied back smiles broadly at the camera while holding two young children. The child on the left holds a large white circular object in front of their face, partially obscuring it, while the child on the right looks toward the camera. In the background, two men sit against a wooden fence.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb12_13_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Toddler sits on garden steps surrounded by colorful flowers.\" data-caption-desc=\"A toddler with short blond hair is seated on weathered wooden steps outdoors. The child wears a long-sleeved striped shirt under denim overalls, white socks, and dark shoes with red accents. They hold a small yellow object in one hand and appear to be looking down at it. Behind them are green bushes and tulips in yellow, red, and orange, along with purple grape hyacinths.\" data-attachment-id=\"1862\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb12_13_1024\/2693368489.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with blond hair wearing striped shirt and blue overalls sitting on wooden steps in a garden holding small yellow object.\" title=\"Toddler sits on garden steps surrounded by colorful flowers.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Toddler sits on garden steps surrounded by colorful flowers.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A toddler with short blond hair is seated on weathered wooden steps outdoors. The child wears a long-sleeved striped shirt under denim overalls, white socks, and dark shoes with red accents. They hold a small yellow object in one hand and appear to be looking down at it. Behind them are green bushes and tulips in yellow, red, and orange, along with purple grape hyacinths.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb12_5_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A woman holds a baby dressed in formal attire, including a top hat.\" data-caption-desc=\"An older woman with short gray hair is seated indoors, holding a baby on her lap. The baby wears a black top hat and a light-colored ruffled outfit over dark clothing. A blue patterned blanket or fabric is visible in the foreground.\" data-attachment-id=\"1861\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb12_5_1024\/3305830359.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman with gray hair holds a baby wearing a top hat and beige outfit.\" title=\"A woman holds a baby dressed in formal attire, including a top hat.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A woman holds a baby dressed in formal attire, including a top hat.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An older woman with short gray hair is seated indoors, holding a baby on her lap. The baby wears a black top hat and a light-colored ruffled outfit over dark clothing. A blue patterned blanket or fabric is visible in the foreground.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb11_7_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A man holds a baby while a cat rests on his lap.\" data-caption-desc=\"A person with glasses wearing a dark blue long-sleeved shirt is seated in a dark upholstered armchair. They are holding a swaddled infant in their left arm, and a grey tabby cat is lying across their lap. The background includes a plain wall and part of a white door frame.\" data-attachment-id=\"1859\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb11_7_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue shirt sits in a dark chair holding a baby and a cat.\" title=\"A man holds a baby while a cat rests on his lap.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man holds a baby while a cat rests on his lap.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A person with glasses wearing a dark blue long-sleeved shirt is seated in a dark upholstered armchair. They are holding a swaddled infant in their left arm, and a grey tabby cat is lying across their lap. The background includes a plain wall and part of a white door frame.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb11_4_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A nurse cares for a newborn in an incubator at a hospital.\" data-caption-desc=\"A woman wearing a blue apron over a white shirt stands beside a medical incubator containing a newborn infant. The room is filled with medical equipment, including monitors and tubing, suggesting an intensive care environment.\" data-attachment-id=\"1858\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb11_4_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A healthcare worker in a blue apron tends to a baby in an incubator inside a hospital room.\" title=\"A nurse cares for a newborn in an incubator at a hospital.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A nurse cares for a newborn in an incubator at a hospital.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A woman wearing a blue apron over a white shirt stands beside a medical incubator containing a newborn infant. The room is filled with medical equipment, including monitors and tubing, suggesting an intensive care environment.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb10_29_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A joyful child celebrates with arms raised high while standing on stairs.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with short hair and round glasses is standing on wooden steps, wearing a green patterned onesie with fruit designs. The child has both arms raised in the air and is smiling broadly. Behind the child is a brick wall and part of a vacuum cleaner to the right.\" data-attachment-id=\"1857\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb10_29_1024\/1219166298.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing glasses and a patterned onesie stands on wooden steps with arms raised in the air.\" title=\"A joyful child celebrates with arms raised high while standing on stairs.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A joyful child celebrates with arms raised high while standing on stairs.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with short hair and round glasses is standing on wooden steps, wearing a green patterned onesie with fruit designs. The child has both arms raised in the air and is smiling broadly. Behind the child is a brick wall and part of a vacuum cleaner to the right.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb9_22_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Men working on a wooden playhouse in a yard.\" data-caption-desc=\"A wooden playhouse with a blue, green, and yellow striped roof stands in a grassy backyard. Two men are visible near the structure; one appears to be adjusting or inspecting part of the frame while another looks on. A small yellow slide is partially visible at the bottom foreground.\" data-attachment-id=\"1856\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb9_22_1024\/2466990739.jpg\" alt=\"Two men standing beside a wooden playhouse with a striped roof in a backyard.\" title=\"Men working on a wooden playhouse in a yard.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Men working on a wooden playhouse in a yard.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A wooden playhouse with a blue, green, and yellow striped roof stands in a grassy backyard. Two men are visible near the structure; one appears to be adjusting or inspecting part of the frame while another looks on. A small yellow slide is partially visible at the bottom foreground.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb8_7_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby in a white onesie resting on a dark background.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows an infant lying on their back on a dark, textured surface. The baby is dressed in a light-colored, long-sleeved onesie with small pink and blue patterns. To the left of the baby is a folded piece of fabric or blanket with a plaid pattern in pastel colors.\" data-attachment-id=\"1855\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb8_7_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A baby wearing a white patterned onesie lying on a dark surface next to a folded blanket.\" title=\"Baby in a white onesie resting on a dark background.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby in a white onesie resting on a dark background.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows an infant lying on their back on a dark, textured surface. The baby is dressed in a light-colored, long-sleeved onesie with small pink and blue patterns. To the left of the baby is a folded piece of fabric or blanket with a plaid pattern in pastel colors.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb7_8_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A man uses a computer while a young child stands on his shoulders nearby.\" data-caption-desc=\"An indoor scene shows a man seated at a desk using an older CRT monitor, with a small child in a red shirt and yellow pants standing on his shoulders. The child reaches toward books on a wooden bookshelf that also holds various papers and objects. A calendar hangs on the wall to the right.\" data-attachment-id=\"1854\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb7_8_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits at a computer with a toddler on his shoulders reaching for books on a shelf.\" title=\"A man uses a computer while a young child stands on his shoulders nearby.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man uses a computer while a young child stands on his shoulders nearby.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An indoor scene shows a man seated at a desk using an older CRT monitor, with a small child in a red shirt and yellow pants standing on his shoulders. The child reaches toward books on a wooden bookshelf that also holds various papers and objects. A calendar hangs on the wall to the right.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb6_8_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Three men and a baby pose together in an indoor setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"A man in a striped shirt holds a baby while two other men stand beside him. The room contains a wooden table and framed artwork on the wall.\" data-attachment-id=\"1853\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb6_8_1024.jpg\" alt=\"Three men standing indoors with one holding a baby; no oversized bank check visible.\" title=\"Three men and a baby pose together in an indoor setting.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Three men and a baby pose together in an indoor setting.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A man in a striped shirt holds a baby while two other men stand beside him. The room contains a wooden table and framed artwork on the wall.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb5_22_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Toddler standing barefoot on carpet facing away from camera.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing only a white diaper stands with their back to the camera, leaning against a dark blue upholstered sofa. The room has patterned textiles and wooden furniture visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1852\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb5_22_1024\/2684267636.jpg\" alt=\"A toddler in a diaper standing with back to camera on blue couch\" title=\"Toddler standing barefoot on carpet facing away from camera.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Toddler standing barefoot on carpet facing away from camera.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing only a white diaper stands with their back to the camera, leaning against a dark blue upholstered sofa. The room has patterned textiles and wooden furniture visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb5_11_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A baby sits in a high chair with a tuft of hair on top.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a young child seated in a blue plastic high chair with patterned fabric. The child has short, light-colored hair styled upward at the crown and is wearing a white long-sleeved garment. Their hands are clasped together in front of them.\" data-attachment-id=\"1851\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb5_11_1024\/1469575981.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with light hair sitting in a blue high chair looking forward.\" title=\"A baby sits in a high chair with a tuft of hair on top.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A baby sits in a high chair with a tuft of hair on top.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a young child seated in a blue plastic high chair with patterned fabric. The child has short, light-colored hair styled upward at the crown and is wearing a white long-sleeved garment. Their hands are clasped together in front of them.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb4_34_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling toddler in a patterned jumpsuit sits on stairs.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with short hair and round glasses is sitting on wooden steps, wearing a blue patterned onesie with dark cuffs and white socks. The background includes a brick wall and a doorway.\" data-attachment-id=\"1850\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb4_34_1024\/3022985977.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing glasses and a patterned onesie sits on wooden steps indoors.\" title=\"A smiling toddler in a patterned jumpsuit sits on stairs.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A smiling toddler in a patterned jumpsuit sits on stairs.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with short hair and round glasses is sitting on wooden steps, wearing a blue patterned onesie with dark cuffs and white socks. The background includes a brick wall and a doorway.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb4_27_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A man works with a tool on the floor while a young child watches.\" data-caption-desc=\"An adult male wearing glasses, a white graphic t-shirt, and blue jeans is kneeling on a wooden surface. He holds a silver metal tool in his hands near a long piece of lumber. A small toddler in a dark blue outfit sits to the left, looking down at the floor.\" data-attachment-id=\"1849\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb4_27_1024\/2205830718.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white t-shirt and jeans kneels on a wooden floor, holding a metal tool while a small child in blue clothing sits nearby.\" title=\"A man works with a tool on the floor while a young child watches.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man works with a tool on the floor while a young child watches.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An adult male wearing glasses, a white graphic t-shirt, and blue jeans is kneeling on a wooden surface. He holds a silver metal tool in his hands near a long piece of lumber. A small toddler in a dark blue outfit sits to the left, looking down at the floor.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb3_28_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler interacts with a red tricycle indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing glasses and a dark green outfit is bending over a red plastic tricycle on a beige carpet. The room contains a large black television set in the background, along with various household items and furniture.\" data-attachment-id=\"1848\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb3_28_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A young child in a green outfit bends over a red tricycle on a carpeted floor near a television.\" title=\"A toddler interacts with a red tricycle indoors.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A toddler interacts with a red tricycle indoors.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing glasses and a dark green outfit is bending over a red plastic tricycle on a beige carpet. The room contains a large black television set in the background, along with various household items and furniture.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb3_5_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A cute baby dressed in a stylish outfit with a hat and glasses.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a young child seated on a brown upholstered couch. The child is wearing round wire-rimmed glasses, a black turtleneck sweater, and a beige textured vest or jumper. A black wide-brimmed hat sits atop the child&#039;s head. The child has light hair and is smiling slightly at the camera.\" data-attachment-id=\"1847\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb3_5_1024\/3541682661.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling baby wearing a black hat, round glasses, and a beige textured vest over a black long-sleeve shirt sitting on a brown couch.\" title=\"A cute baby dressed in a stylish outfit with a hat and glasses.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A cute baby dressed in a stylish outfit with a hat and glasses.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a young child seated on a brown upholstered couch. The child is wearing round wire-rimmed glasses, a black turtleneck sweater, and a beige textured vest or jumper. A black wide-brimmed hat sits atop the child's head. The child has light hair and is smiling slightly at the camera.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb2_27_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Man and child working together on a wooden deck.\" data-caption-desc=\"A person wearing a white graphic t-shirt and blue jeans is kneeling on a wooden deck, using a power tool on a long piece of lumber. A small child in a dark blue long-sleeved shirt sits nearby holding a hammer. The background includes a table with various items and a chair.\" data-attachment-id=\"1846\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb2_27_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white t-shirt and jeans kneels on a wooden deck while working with tools, next to a small child in a blue shirt.\" title=\"Man and child working together on a wooden deck.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Man and child working together on a wooden deck.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A person wearing a white graphic t-shirt and blue jeans is kneeling on a wooden deck, using a power tool on a long piece of lumber. A small child in a dark blue long-sleeved shirt sits nearby holding a hammer. The background includes a table with various items and a chair.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb2_10_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A man relaxes on a bed while a baby lies beside him.\" data-caption-desc=\"An adult male with short dark hair and glasses is seated on a bed covered with striped bedding. A baby wearing a light blue outfit is lying on the bed near his legs. The background includes a wooden headboard and a curtain.\" data-attachment-id=\"1845\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb2_10_1024.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a gray sweater sits on a bed with a baby lying next to him.\" title=\"A man relaxes on a bed while a baby lies beside him.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man relaxes on a bed while a baby lies beside him.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An adult male with short dark hair and glasses is seated on a bed covered with striped bedding. A baby wearing a light blue outfit is lying on the bed near his legs. The background includes a wooden headboard and a curtain.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_1024-2.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A peaceful newborn baby resting in a yellow outfit.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a close-up of an infant with fair skin, sparse reddish-brown hair, and closed eyes. The baby is dressed in a pale yellow garment adorned with a silver flower-shaped brooch on the chest. A clear nasal cannula tube is visible under the nose, suggesting medical monitoring or support. The infant lies on a soft white blanket with lace trim.\" data-attachment-id=\"1844\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_1024-2\/2963653835.jpg\" alt=\"A newborn baby with light skin and reddish hair lying on a white blanket wearing a yellow outfit with a decorative brooch.\" title=\"A peaceful newborn baby resting in a yellow outfit.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A peaceful newborn baby resting in a yellow outfit.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a close-up of an infant with fair skin, sparse reddish-brown hair, and closed eyes. The baby is dressed in a pale yellow garment adorned with a silver flower-shaped brooch on the chest. A clear nasal cannula tube is visible under the nose, suggesting medical monitoring or support. The infant lies on a soft white blanket with lace trim.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_30_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy in overalls and glasses poses for a photo.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with short hair and round glasses is seated, wearing dark green corduroy overalls over a striped long-sleeve shirt. Behind him to the left is a blue baby seat or rocker decorated with cartoon characters. The background includes a plain wall with an electrical outlet and carpeted flooring.\" data-attachment-id=\"1843\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_30_1024\/768803246.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing round glasses and green overalls sits in front of a blue baby seat.\" title=\"A young boy in overalls and glasses poses for a photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy in overalls and glasses poses for a photo.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with short hair and round glasses is seated, wearing dark green corduroy overalls over a striped long-sleeve shirt. Behind him to the left is a blue baby seat or rocker decorated with cartoon characters. The background includes a plain wall with an electrical outlet and carpeted flooring.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_29_1024.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Family portrait with three people posing in front of a decorated Christmas tree.\" data-caption-desc=\"Three individuals are seated on the floor in front of a Christmas tree adorned with red ornaments. The person on the left wears a blue denim shirt and glasses, the person on the right wears a black top with a patterned scarf, and the child in the center sits wearing a dark sweater and beige pants.\" data-attachment-id=\"1842\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/thumb_caleb1_29_1024\/2262361547.jpg\" alt=\"A family portrait featuring a man, woman, and young child sitting together in front of a Christmas tree.\" title=\"Family portrait with three people posing in front of a decorated Christmas tree.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Family portrait with three people posing in front of a decorated Christmas tree.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Three individuals are seated on the floor in front of a Christmas tree adorned with red ornaments. The person on the left wears a blue denim shirt and glasses, the person on the right wears a black top with a patterned scarf, and the child in the center sits wearing a dark sweater and beige pants.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_4599-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Children posing with a Christmas tree at a tree lot.\" data-caption-desc=\"A boy wearing glasses, a navy blue Penn State hoodie, and red sweatpants stands between two girls. The girl on the left wears a pink zip-up jacket and black pants; the girl on the right wears a graphic zip-up hoodie and jeans. They are standing in front of a large evergreen tree at what appears to be a Christmas tree farm.\" data-attachment-id=\"1841\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IMG_4599-scaled\/3341041832.jpg\" alt=\"Three children standing in front of a large Christmas tree at a tree farm.\" title=\"Children posing with a Christmas tree at a tree lot.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Children posing with a Christmas tree at a tree lot.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A boy wearing glasses, a navy blue Penn State hoodie, and red sweatpants stands between two girls. The girl on the left wears a pink zip-up jacket and black pants; the girl on the right wears a graphic zip-up hoodie and jeans. They are standing in front of a large evergreen tree at what appears to be a Christmas tree farm.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0628.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy and an older woman sit side by side, both wearing glasses.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows two individuals seated closely together on what appears to be a couch. The person on the left is a young boy with short brown hair, wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a light blue t-shirt with a black collar. The person on the right is an older woman with curly gray hair, also wearing wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark green collared shirt and a necklace.\" data-attachment-id=\"1840\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IMG_0628\/3941768569.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with glasses in a blue shirt sits next to an older woman with curly gray hair and glasses wearing a dark green top.\" title=\"A young boy and an older woman sit side by side, both wearing glasses.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy and an older woman sit side by side, both wearing glasses.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows two individuals seated closely together on what appears to be a couch. The person on the left is a young boy with short brown hair, wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a light blue t-shirt with a black collar. The person on the right is an older woman with curly gray hair, also wearing wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark green collared shirt and a necklace.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0343.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy looks up while standing in a living room.\" data-caption-desc=\"A side-profile view of a young boy wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a blue t-shirt, gazing upward. He has short spiky hair on top with faded sides. The background shows a living room with a couch, wall decorations including a round mirror and framed items, and a laundry basket.\" data-attachment-id=\"1839\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IMG_0343\/3281396393.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with spiky hair and glasses stands in profile looking upward inside a living room.\" title=\"A young boy looks up while standing in a living room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy looks up while standing in a living room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A side-profile view of a young boy wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a blue t-shirt, gazing upward. He has short spiky hair on top with faded sides. The background shows a living room with a couch, wall decorations including a round mirror and framed items, and a laundry basket.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0014.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy sits on a staircase.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy with short hair and glasses is sitting on the middle step of a wooden staircase that has beige carpeting. He is wearing a bright orange t-shirt with a graphic print, dark shorts, and white socks with black toes. Behind him, there are light-colored cabinets and a doorway leading to another room.\" data-attachment-id=\"1838\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IMG_0014\/773307705.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing glasses and an orange shirt sits on a carpeted wooden staircase in a home.\" title=\"A young boy sits on a staircase.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy sits on a staircase.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy with short hair and glasses is sitting on the middle step of a wooden staircase that has beige carpeting. He is wearing a bright orange t-shirt with a graphic print, dark shorts, and white socks with black toes. Behind him, there are light-colored cabinets and a doorway leading to another room.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img075-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A studio portrait of three children posing together.\" data-caption-desc=\"Two older children, one girl and one boy, are seated on the floor with a baby between them. The girl wears a pink dress and holds the baby, who is dressed in a satin outfit. The boy sits behind them wearing a striped polo shirt and glasses.\" data-attachment-id=\"1837\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/img075-scaled\/446017034.jpg\" alt=\"Three young children sitting together in a studio photo; two older kids flanking a baby.\" title=\"A studio portrait of three children posing together.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A studio portrait of three children posing together.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Two older children, one girl and one boy, are seated on the floor with a baby between them. The girl wears a pink dress and holds the baby, who is dressed in a satin outfit. The boy sits behind them wearing a striped polo shirt and glasses.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM001965.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Shirtless boy posing with arms wide open in a decorated living room.\" data-caption-desc=\"A shirtless young male wearing grey underwear stands facing away from the camera with his arms extended horizontally. The room contains a rocking chair, a small table with a vase, a baby gate, and a blue playpen labeled &#039;GRACO&#039;. In the background, there is a lit Christmas tree near a window.\" data-attachment-id=\"1836\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM001965\/832476661.jpg\" alt=\"A shirtless boy in underwear stands with arms outstretched in a living room with Christmas lights and furniture.\" title=\"Shirtless boy posing with arms wide open in a decorated living room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Shirtless boy posing with arms wide open in a decorated living room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A shirtless young male wearing grey underwear stands facing away from the camera with his arms extended horizontally. The room contains a rocking chair, a small table with a vase, a baby gate, and a blue playpen labeled 'GRACO'. In the background, there is a lit Christmas tree near a window.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000840_1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy sits in a recliner chair in a bedroom.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy with dark hair and glasses is sitting cross-legged in a light blue upholstered recliner chair with an attached footrest. He wears a white t-shirt and white socks, looking off to the right side of the frame. The room contains a wooden desk with computer equipment, a black office chair, a staircase, and a bed with colorful bedding.\" data-attachment-id=\"1835\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000840_1\/2899946358.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a white t-shirt sits cross-legged in a light blue recliner chair with footrest, looking to the side.\" title=\"A young boy sits in a recliner chair in a bedroom.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy sits in a recliner chair in a bedroom.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy with dark hair and glasses is sitting cross-legged in a light blue upholstered recliner chair with an attached footrest. He wears a white t-shirt and white socks, looking off to the right side of the frame. The room contains a wooden desk with computer equipment, a black office chair, a staircase, and a bed with colorful bedding.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000791.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children sit on the floor in front of a lit Christmas tree.\" data-caption-desc=\"Two young children are sitting cross-legged on a carpeted floor in front of a large, decorated Christmas tree. The older child wears glasses and a beige sweater, while the younger child has curly hair and is wearing a grey and blue jacket. Several wrapped gifts are placed under the tree, and to the right, there is a green filing cabinet with a computer monitor on top.\" data-attachment-id=\"1834\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000791\/954362407.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting on the floor in front of a decorated Christmas tree with wrapped gifts nearby.\" title=\"Two children sit on the floor in front of a lit Christmas tree.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two children sit on the floor in front of a lit Christmas tree.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Two young children are sitting cross-legged on a carpeted floor in front of a large, decorated Christmas tree. The older child wears glasses and a beige sweater, while the younger child has curly hair and is wearing a grey and blue jacket. Several wrapped gifts are placed under the tree, and to the right, there is a green filing cabinet with a computer monitor on top.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000676.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy plays a video game while sitting on his bed in a cluttered room.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a red shirt sits on the edge of a white bed, holding a black video game controller. The room has light blue walls with a colorful cityscape border, and the floor is covered with scattered crayons, toys, and papers.\" data-attachment-id=\"1833\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000676\/518770568.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with glasses sits on a bed holding a video game controller in a messy bedroom.\" title=\"A young boy plays a video game while sitting on his bed in a cluttered room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy plays a video game while sitting on his bed in a cluttered room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy wearing glasses and a red shirt sits on the edge of a white bed, holding a black video game controller. The room has light blue walls with a colorful cityscape border, and the floor is covered with scattered crayons, toys, and papers.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000602.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling boy hugs a toddler in front of a kitchen area.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a Sesame Street-themed shirt kneels on a tiled floor, smiling at the camera. A small child with curly hair in a yellow dress embraces him from behind. To the left is a white refrigerator with a decorative towel hanging on it.\" data-attachment-id=\"1832\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000602\/3089417342.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with glasses smiles while hugging a toddler in a yellow dress near a refrigerator.\" title=\"A smiling boy hugs a toddler in front of a kitchen area.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A smiling boy hugs a toddler in front of a kitchen area.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy wearing glasses and a Sesame Street-themed shirt kneels on a tiled floor, smiling at the camera. A small child with curly hair in a yellow dress embraces him from behind. To the left is a white refrigerator with a decorative towel hanging on it.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000256.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young boy using a laptop at a dining table.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy with short hair and glasses, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, is seated at a polished wooden table. He is actively typing on an open silver laptop computer. To his left on the table sits a can of Pepsi Max, a glass, and a pair of scissors.\" data-attachment-id=\"1831\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000256\/3024000766.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a white shirt sits at a wooden table using a laptop with a Pepsi can nearby.\" title=\"Young boy using a laptop at a dining table.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young boy using a laptop at a dining table.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy with short hair and glasses, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, is seated at a polished wooden table. He is actively typing on an open silver laptop computer. To his left on the table sits a can of Pepsi Max, a glass, and a pair of scissors.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IM000074.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy sits between two babies in a plush chair.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young boy wearing glasses and a yellow shirt sits in the middle of a large, dark red velvet armchair. He is flanked by two infants; one on his left wears a light pink onesie and makes a peace sign with his hand, while the other on his right wears a white outfit. The setting appears to be a living room with a wooden crib visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1830\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/IM000074\/2600206845.jpg\" alt=\"Three young children sitting together in a large purple armchair.\" title=\"A young boy sits between two babies in a plush chair.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy sits between two babies in a plush chair.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young boy wearing glasses and a yellow shirt sits in the middle of a large, dark red velvet armchair. He is flanked by two infants; one on his left wears a light pink onesie and makes a peace sign with his hand, while the other on his right wears a white outfit. The setting appears to be a living room with a wooden crib visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DSC01349.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Three children playing together in a backyard near a play structure.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows three young boys standing on a lawn in front of a wooden playhouse with a yellow slide. One boy faces the camera while the other two are turned away, appearing to interact with each other. The scene includes greenery and fencing in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1829\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/DSC01349\/3016274425.jpg\" alt=\"Three young boys playing in a grassy backyard with a wooden playset and yellow slide.\" title=\"Three children playing together in a backyard near a play structure.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Three children playing together in a backyard near a play structure.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows three young boys standing on a lawn in front of a wooden playhouse with a yellow slide. One boy faces the camera while the other two are turned away, appearing to interact with each other. The scene includes greenery and fencing in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/CalebAmanda.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young boy and baby sitting together for a portrait photo.\" data-caption-desc=\"A studio-style photograph shows a young boy wearing round glasses and a blue plaid shirt, seated behind a smiling baby girl in a yellow floral dress. The boy has his arms around the baby, who is looking directly at the camera with an open mouth expression. They are positioned against a plain white background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1828\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/CalebAmanda\/1000969769.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with glasses holding a smiling baby in a yellow dress against a white backdrop.\" title=\"A young boy and baby sitting together for a portrait photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young boy and baby sitting together for a portrait photo.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A studio-style photograph shows a young boy wearing round glasses and a blue plaid shirt, seated behind a smiling baby girl in a yellow floral dress. The boy has his arms around the baby, who is looking directly at the camera with an open mouth expression. They are positioned against a plain white background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/CalebAmanda001.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two happy children posing closely together.\" data-caption-desc=\"Two young children are lying on their backs, smiling broadly at the camera. The child in the foreground wears a red top and has light brown hair, while the child behind them wears a dark top and also has glasses. They appear to be resting on white bedding or fabric.\" data-attachment-id=\"1827\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/CalebAmanda001\/2315832648.jpg\" alt=\"Two smiling children with glasses lying on their backs together.\" title=\"Two happy children posing closely together.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two happy children posing closely together.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Two young children are lying on their backs, smiling broadly at the camera. The child in the foreground wears a red top and has light brown hair, while the child behind them wears a dark top and also has glasses. They appear to be resting on white bedding or fabric.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/caleb6_7.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby dressed in Halloween attire sits in a hospital bed with a small pumpkin.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child is seated in what appears to be a hospital bed, wearing a colorful Halloween outfit that includes a cape and hat. The child holds a small orange pumpkin decorated with a face. An adult&#039;s arm is visible on the left side of the frame, suggesting someone is supporting or comforting the child.\" data-attachment-id=\"1826\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/caleb6_7.jpg\" alt=\"A baby sitting in a hospital bed wearing a Halloween costume with a pumpkin nearby.\" title=\"Baby dressed in Halloween attire sits in a hospital bed with a small pumpkin.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby dressed in Halloween attire sits in a hospital bed with a small pumpkin.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child is seated in what appears to be a hospital bed, wearing a colorful Halloween outfit that includes a cape and hat. The child holds a small orange pumpkin decorated with a face. An adult's arm is visible on the left side of the frame, suggesting someone is supporting or comforting the child.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/200203192149938.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child playfully mimics holding a large ceremonial check with a ruler during a home project.\" data-caption-desc=\"An indoor scene shows a young boy in red pajamas and glasses holding a white ruler horizontally across his shoulders, resembling a oversized ceremonial bank check. An adult is bent over working on assembling or moving a white cabinet frame on the floor. The room has yellow walls, windows, scattered papers, and construction materials.\" data-attachment-id=\"1825\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/200203192149938\/1346214028.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy in red pajamas holds a ruler like a check while an adult works on furniture nearby.\" title=\"A child playfully mimics holding a large ceremonial check with a ruler during a home project.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child playfully mimics holding a large ceremonial check with a ruler during a home project.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An indoor scene shows a young boy in red pajamas and glasses holding a white ruler horizontally across his shoulders, resembling a oversized ceremonial bank check. An adult is bent over working on assembling or moving a white cabinet frame on the floor. The room has yellow walls, windows, scattered papers, and construction materials.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/200202082154890.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A person is sleeping inside a baby bassinet.\" data-caption-desc=\"A person wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and blue shorts is lying on their side, asleep, inside a portable baby bassinet. The bassinet has a light blue and white speckled fabric lining with ruffled edges and a warning label attached to the interior wall. A small camera or sensor device is visible on the side of the bassinet frame.\" data-attachment-id=\"1824\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/09\/200202082154890\/546945326.jpg\" alt=\"A person sleeping in a baby bassinet with blue and white patterned fabric.\" title=\"A person is sleeping inside a baby bassinet.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A person is sleeping inside a baby bassinet.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A person wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and blue shorts is lying on their side, asleep, inside a portable baby bassinet. The bassinet has a light blue and white speckled fabric lining with ruffled edges and a warning label attached to the interior wall. A small camera or sensor device is visible on the side of the bassinet frame.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-prev\" title=\"Prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">42<\/span><\/label>\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-next\" title=\"Next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n<p>While waiting for our possession to move from Berkeley to State College, we stayed at Rita\u2019s parent\u2019s house in Michigan. My parents were living very near at that time also. Rita was about 20 weeks pregnant then and had already had two miscarriages. One night she woke me and said she thought her water broke. We went to St. Joseph\u2019s Medical Center, and they told us that she would deliver the baby within 72 hours. At a gestational age of 21-weeks, the baby would surely not survive. They suggested aborting the pregnancy. Rita told them she couldn&#8217;t do that as she could feel the baby moving. The biggest risk in waiting was apparently infection, so we decide to wait and see. They transferred her to the University of Michigan Medical Center, where she remained on bed rest for seven weeks.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"right-sidebar\" style=\"border-color:#000009;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2F323C;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Abortions<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">\r\n<p>It seems like every few years the conservatives in this country get all fired up because liberals want to allow late-term abortions.\u00a0 What is usually lost in the rhetoric is that what liberals want is for doctors to not be charged with murder for performing late-term abortions that are, of course, deemed medically necessary.\u00a0 I have to say it was pretty shocking to hear the first doctor that saw Rita propose aborting the pregnancy.\u00a0 He certainly was pushing this on us, but I think he thought the risk, i.e., something serious happening to Rita that could possibly lead to her not being able to have children, was much greater than the highly unlikely reward, i.e. the baby being born at least four or five weeks after the amniotic sack broke.<\/p>\r\n<p>While I&#8217;m strongly pro-choice, I am also strongly not anti-life.\u00a0 Deciding whether or not to terminate the pregnancy never really seemed like an option to us as we naively didn&#8217;t see the harm in just waiting it out.\u00a0 I am still not quite sure what the harm in waiting was.\u00a0 I think the doctor just felt that there was no possible way the baby would be born at a gestational age at which it would survive.\u00a0 I have no idea how an abortion at 20 weeks into a pregnancy would be done.\u00a0 I suppose they would probably just induce labor.<\/p>\r\n<p>This story has another abortion-related twist in that the doctors actually decided to induce labor at 28 weeks.\u00a0 Obviously, they did force us to do this but their argument was that, with almost no amniotic fluid buffer, the baby&#8217;s lungs were not developing as they should and most babies born at this time have good outcomes.\u00a0 Rita and I actually thought about this a lot but we agreed that what the doctors said made a lot of sense, so we decided to have them &#8220;abort&#8221; the pregnancy.\u00a0 In every sense of the word, the doctors were performing an abortion because they were inducing the termination of a pregnancy.\u00a0 Of course, many women have labor induced or cesarian sections, and these could all be deemed late-term abortions.\u00a0 Of course, the doctors doing these procedures and the women having them done have no intention for the baby to die, but what if it does?<\/p>\r\n<p>Caleb <em>very<\/em> nearly did not make it, and it&#8217;s interesting to consider the ramifications had he not.\u00a0 Rita and I certainly would have second-guessed the decision to induce labor for the rest of our lives.\u00a0 Should the doctors have then been held responsible for Caleb&#8217;s death?\u00a0 While I can&#8217;t imagine Rita or I thinking this, the laws the conservatives want and the liberal fight against would have made the doctors legally culpable.\u00a0 If the doctors knew they might be legally liable if their best medical advice leads to death, would they not even consider doing what they thought was medically the best option?<\/p>\r\n<p>I think Pete Buttigieg, who I hope has a long career in politics, summed it up nicely while being questioned by Fox News&#8217; Chris Wallace who asked, &#8220;Do you believe, at any point in pregnancy, whether it&#8217;s at six weeks or eight weeks or 24 weeks or whenever, that there should be any limit on a woman&#8217;s right to have an abortion?&#8221;\u00a0 Buttigieg replied, &#8220;I think the dialogue has gotten so caught up on where you draw the line that we&#8217;ve gotten away from the fundamental question of who gets to draw the line, and I trust women to draw the line when it&#8217;s their own health.&#8221; When Wallace pushed him about advocating the third trimester abortions he has about the best reply I think I&#8217;ve ever heard, &#8220;That&#8217;s right, representing one percent of cases. So let&#8217;s put ourselves in the shoes of a woman in that situation. If it&#8217;s that late in your pregnancy, than almost by definition, you&#8217;ve been expecting to carry it to term. We&#8217;re talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name. Women who have purchased a crib, families that then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime, something about the health or the life of the mother or viability of the pregnancy that forces them to make an impossible, unthinkable choice. And the bottom line is as horrible as that choice is, that woman, that family may seek spiritual guidance, they may seek medical guidance, but that decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Caleb was born on September 18, 1998, at a gestational age of 28 weeks but his lungs were severely underdeveloped from a lack of amniotic fluid in the uterus. He weighed 2.5 pounds and remained on a ventilator for nearly four weeks. While the nurses tried to prepare us for the NICU, I was completely unprepared for Caleb&#8217;s challenges. During his first day there, we watched his blood pressure drop to the single digits. The nurses started preparing us for him not to make it. Fortunately, the medication started to work, and his blood pressure slowly rose. While all the days of his nine-week stay in the NICU were not that rough, there were many more ups and downs. It was an emotional roller coaster ride, a big wake-up to the real world, and a rough welcome to becoming a father and professor. Needless to say, my first semester at PSU did not go well.<\/p>\r\n<p>I attempted to start teaching the class I was assigned while Rita was in the hospital. Fortunately, there was a direct flight from State College to Detroit, and I made the trip numerous times. One memorable flight was when employees of Northwest Airlines had just ended their strike; besides the pilots and flight attendants, I was the only person on the plane. After a few emergency trips to Ann Arbor, the department found someone to permanently teach my class which allowed me to spend all my time in Michigan.<\/p>\r\n<p>While Caleb coming home from the NICU was a huge step forward, it also was a very trying time for Rita and me. He was still in need of a great deal of medical attention and constant monitoring. We hooked him up to a breathing monitor at night, which constantly false alarmed. We took him repeatedly to Hershey Medical Center to determine if his retinopathy was improving or worsening. We tried everything possible to get him to gain weight. Nothing worked because I think his ultra-thin build has nothing to do with being premature. We got letters home every year from school alerting us that his BMI was in the 0.5th percentile. That\u2019s the problem with sick kids. You never know what is a problem and what is just individuality. This has been even more of an issue with Amanda.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-12\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P6.mp3?_=12\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P6.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P6.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Cancer<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Not long after Caleb\u2019s health seemed to stabilize and just after my parents had bought a house in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, between my brother in D.C. and me, but before they\u2019d moved, my mother was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, i.e., cancer in the immune (lymph) system. The thing with lymphoma is that there are various types and a variety of stages. Some are very slow-growing, extending life expectancy but also reducing the effects of chemotherapy. Some are fast-growing and respond well to chemotherapy. There are also types with growth rates in between. It was never quite clear (to me at least) what type my mother had.<\/p>\r\n<p>The doctors treated it aggressively with chemotherapy, and for a while, it seemed to be working. However, as anyone who has closely followed someone with cancer knows, there are many ups and downs as one test result looks encouraging and the next looks discouraging. After a few years, it became clear that she was losing the battle. After roughly three years, she passed away on June 23, 2003. She had turned 58 the month before.<\/p>\r\n<p>I recall my dad calling my ex-inlaw&#8217;s house a few miles from my parent\u2019s house, where I stayed with Rita\u2019s family. I knew the end was near, but you always hold out a bit of hope for a miracle. All I really remember about the telephone call was my dad saying, \u201cMom passed.\u201d This was very early in the morning, and I recall hospice taking her as I arrived. Fortunately, I was able to spend some time with her after the kids\u2019 school year ended. I had not seen her for a few months, and I recall being devastated by how frail and weak she had gotten since the last I had seen her. The other memory I have of the day she died is a spectacular 180\u00b0 rainbow in the eastern sky.<\/p>\r\n<p>Losing my mother was quite hard. She was the one from whom I got my overzealous passion, outspokenness, and a strong desire for fairness and honesty. Unfortunately, this combination of traits also tends to annoy people if not moderated properly. My mother, who dealt with this with herself and her family, was always the person who would help me. Whenever I was overly upset about something and wanted to act, I would talk to her and inevitably calm down. There have been <em>many<\/em> occasions since her passing when her calming wisdom would have been helpful. There have also been <em>many<\/em> occasions when her passion and outspokenness likely would have been helpful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-13\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P7.mp3?_=13\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P7.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P7.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Panicked Feeling<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I can vividly remember the day that my anxiety turned into full-blown panic. While I spoke earlier about my anxiety about the safety of people close to me, I was always extremely nervous in other situations. For example, before baseball games throughout my teenage years, I was usually so nervous that I could hardly interact with people. While I don\u2019t recall being nervous before exams in high school, I was usually extremely nervous before exams in college. I remember my friends joking that the last person who should be nervous about an exam was me. After getting a B+ in freshmen English during my first semester, I never got anything less than a straight-A during the rest of my college career, but I never learned to relax before an exam. In fact, sometimes, I felt like I was the most nervous person in the room when I was <i>giving<\/i><b><i> <\/i><\/b>an exam. I was constantly worried about the exam being too long, too difficult, too easy, sufficient in covering important concepts, etc.<\/p>\r\n<p>I had spent the summer of 2001 living in Hampton, Virginia, and working at NASA Langley Research Center. Rita was pregnant with Amanda during this time. This was a great experience, and I came back to State College for the academic year with a lot of enthusiasm. I taught two classes that I\u2019d taught before but had decided to revamp one of them completely. Thus, I started making new notes from scratch. In early October 2001, I was sitting in an area of my office away from my computer where I would write and develop notes for class. Early in the semester, I had gotten ahead preparing notes, but my buffer at that point was basically empty, and I was making notes the day before or the day of a lecture. This wasn\u2019t really a serious problem, but I really needed to be focused on other things (i.e., research) as an assistant (untenured) professor. Plus, Rita was pregnant, and I was feeling constantly drained. I would later discover I had severe sleep apnea.<\/p>\r\n<p>While sitting at this side desk in my office, I just felt this sense of being completely overwhelmed and thinking that I was never going to maintain what I was doing for the rest of the semester, especially with a newborn at home. I started sweating and trembling (which I now call \u201cthe jitters\u201d), and I could not focus on anything. My mind was racing in all different directions, and I couldn\u2019t relax. In previous stressful situations, I could always calm myself, for example, once the game or exam started. However, this time I just could not calm down. I was supposed to be teaching a class that afternoon, and I was panicked that I would not be able to. I have since learned how depression and anxiety can lead to more depression and anxiety, and you can wind up in a terrible downward spiral.<\/p>\r\n<p>I wound up trying to teach my graduate-level class that afternoon, but the students could tell I was struggling with something, and I recall finally telling them I needed to take a few minutes. At that point, a couple of students told me it was fine to cancel the class, and I remember two of them walking back with me to my office as I trembled. I called Rita, and she came to pick me up. I felt terrible about ending class early, but there was no way I was going to be able to continue. My brain just could not focus.<\/p>\r\n<p>The problem was, this made me even more anxious about the much larger, and surely less understanding, undergraduate-level class the next day. I wondered if the same thing would happen. I got myself calmed down by the evening and was able to sleep, albeit with undiagnosed sleep apnea episodes occurring about once a minute. Stress has always made me sleepy. However, I woke up even more panicked than I was the previous day. There was no way I would be able to go to work, nonetheless give a lecture. I called in sick. This made me feel terrible and even more determined not to miss any more lectures. Unfortunately, this just ramped up the anxiety, and the downward spiral continued.<\/p>\r\n<p>During this period, my typical day was as follows. I would wake up in an utter panic with my mind racing. I couldn\u2019t focus on anything, which resulted in me not making even simple decisions. I would stand in the walk-in closet, not being able to decide what to wear, even though I knew it really didn\u2019t matter. You don\u2019t realize how many simple decisions you make every day until each one of them becomes a huge one in your mind.<\/p>\r\n<p>The mornings were definitely the toughest, but I could usually settle down by the late afternoon. But the cycle would repeat every day, and it became clear that I would not be able to teach classes that semester. My department head found someone to cover for me permanently after Amanda was born and rushed to the NICU.<\/p>\r\n<p>At some point after Amanda\u2019s birth, I realized that I was not going to be able to overcome these panic attacks on my own and started looking for a psychiatrist that could help. I can\u2019t remember who I initially saw, but he prescribed me Zoloft. The problem with anti-depressants is that they take a long time to start working, and in fact, you never really know if they\u2019re doing anything or not. It\u2019s not like you&#8217;ll notice anything different if you don\u2019t take them for a day or two. Likewise, if you start to feel depressed, taking one won\u2019t make you immediately feel any better.<\/p>\r\n<p>Eventually, I was able to pull myself out of the downward spiral of despair and get back to functioning normally. Going through a case of clinical depression and anxiety was very eye-opening for me. While people understood this far more in 2001 than in, say, 1980, there was still a stigma about it, and I think there still is. Before going through it myself, I was one of those people that would think, \u201cYou\u2019re depressed? Just do something fun to make yourself feel better.\u201d Unfortunately, it simply does not work that way. First, everything you used to enjoy does not seem enjoyable anymore. My psychiatrist once told me that when you\u2019re depressed, you cannot understand how you could not be, and when you\u2019re not depressed, you cannot understand how you could be. This is <i>very<\/i> true. You simply cannot make yourself feel better.<\/p>\r\n<p>I truly believe that until you\u2019ve gone through it yourself, you do not completely understand, just like men cannot completely understand what it\u2019s like to be a woman and vice versa. People can be sympathetic and possibly even empathetic because they\u2019ve likely had events in their life that were depressing. I&#8217;ve obviously been through this kind of depression, but clinical depression is very different; there really isn\u2019t anything that causes it. It would be great if you could pinpoint one thing in your life that you could change to make it go away, but you can\u2019t. In fact, I have realized that my issues usually happen <i>after<\/i> a stressful event has passed. For example, if there is a deadline, I can focus on meeting that deadline. After the deadline passed, I would feel overwhelmed with all \u201cthe other\u201d things I needed to do. Without something on which to focus, my brain would start to race, and every small thing I needed to do felt like something huge.<\/p>\r\n<p>The best way to make people who have never experienced this understand is to ask them if they could make themselves fall asleep whenever they wanted. They would obviously know they could not. I would then tell them it was like telling someone that was clinically depressed just to feel better. You can\u2019t do it. There\u2019s some chemical imbalance in your brain that simply does not allow it. This is just like how some chemical builds in your brain while awake, allowing you to fall asleep. As an engineer, I would joke that you were simply not able to control the controller in your head. It\u2019s just like trying to unsee something. You just cannot do it, and the more you try, the harder it is. I joke with people now that I should have just told people I had debilitating migraines. While not everyone has had a migraine, almost everyone has had a headache. Thus, they can understand how migraines could make doing anything complicated and empathize with a person dealing with them.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Zoloft did not really cause any side effects for me besides occasional night sweats which have not happened in years at this point. However, once I started feeling better, I started wondering what it was actually doing for me. As someone hesitant to take medications in general, I decided to stop taking Zoloft. This was, unfortunately, a huge mistake. While I was fine for a while, when autumn came around, I started having problems again. As with many people, I have learned the fall is generally not a good time for me. I wound up in a downward spiral again and had to take a leave from work. Not long after this, three of my nephews died in a house fire. I will discuss this later.<\/p>\r\n<p>I had stopped seeing the psychiatrist, and I wasn\u2019t sure how to get my prescription restarted. For some reason, I thought that my regular doctor would not be willing to prescribe anti-depressants; now that\u2019s who writes the prescriptions. Rita tried to get an appointment with a psychiatrist as there was no way I was able to deal with it. Unfortunately, no one had any openings. She finally found someone and took me to see him. His office was basically an empty room with a desk. He suggested I take Remeron. I\u2019m not sure why besides him having some samples in his desk. He gave them to Rita, who noticed they were actually expired. He then rummaged around and found some that were not. It was not a good experience, and I think this was the only time I saw him.<\/p>\r\n<p>He also gave me a prescription for Remeron, and I tried taking it for a couple of weeks. The problem was that it just made me sleep all the time. And when I was awake, I was very groggy and out of it. Maybe if I\u2019d given it longer the side effects would have subsided, but I decided I really needed to see another psychiatrist.<\/p>\r\n<p>Rita learned that the best way to get seen immediately was to go to the hospital and check in to the psychiatric ward. Rita\u2019s father was bipolar and had been having many problems after he retired and had spent some time in one. Thus, we decided to go to Mount Nittany Medical Center and see if they had beds available. Fortunately, they did, and I was admitted. This was the first time I had ever been admitted to a hospital. It was not a pleasant experience, although a lot of that had to do with the depression. However, I was able to see a psychiatrist who simply said, \u201cWell, it seems as Zoloft worked before; let\u2019s get you back on that.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how long I stayed in the hospital, but I suspect it was about a week. I learned a lot about mental illnesses and how I could better deal with mine. One thing I realized is that it is different for each person. There were obviously many other mentally ill patients in the hospital, and I realized that I had it very well compared to most of their lives. After I was released, I was able to start developing some coping strategies that worked for me. Unfortunately, the death of my nephews made it all seem pointless.<\/p>\r\n<p>I have not really had a big problem with depression or anxiety in a long time. There were some episodes at the beginning of the divorce and my initial dealings with the legal system, and I will discuss those later. I have learned that there will be some bad days, but I just have to accept them and not get worried that it\u2019s the start of something bigger. I justify these bad days by simply telling myself I\u2019m sick. I rarely ever get physically sick so being mentally sick for a couple of days isn\u2019t a big deal. This strategy has worked well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-14\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P8.mp3?_=14\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P8.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P8.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Daughter (and Another)<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Before I talk about the house fire, I will discuss Amanda\u2019s birth and subsequent medical complications.<\/p>\r\n<p>Amanda was born full-term on October 30, 2001, but the doctors immediately notice some abnormalities. They monitored her closely and realized she was not able to dispel material in her bowels. They believed she had Hirschsprung\u2019s disease, which is when nerve endings are missing from the colon. Amanda was rushed to Hershey Medical Center, where she was to have a \u201cpull-through\u201d surgery in which they remove the portion of the colon that does not have nerve endings. When they started this procedure, they realized her appendix had ruptured at some point. Thus, instead of doing the pull-through procedure, they removed her appendix and gave her a colostomy. They also discovered the extent of her birth defects, including the lack of a bladder and a uterus. She spent four weeks in the NICU.<\/p>\r\n<p>We were much more prepared for the NICU experience this time, but it was entirely different. There are basically two situations that cause a baby to be in a NICU. The first, as with Caleb, is being born prematurely. The second, as with Amanda, is having birth defects. As there are no private rooms (or any rooms) in a NICU, we had also learned a lot about the issues of birth defects while Caleb was in the hospital. That experience left me amazed at how many different things can go wrong in a developing fetus that will allow it to survive <em>in utero<\/em> but not after birth. Fetal development truly is amazing. During this time, I made regular drives between Hershey and State College and stayed quite a few nights in the nearby Ronald McDonald house. These are amazing, and if you want to consider giving to a charity, I would recommend this one. Fortunately, Rita&#8217;s parents were retired by this point and could stay with Caleb in State College. My parents also regularly came from Michigan, but my dad had not yet retired, and my mother was dealing with cancer.<\/p>\r\n<p>On August 13, 2002, Amanda had her third surgery. Because she did not have a bladder, urine continually flowed from her kidneys through a urogenital sinus and out. The surgeons were worried about infection, so they gave her a vesicostomy, which was a surgically created connection between the urogenital sinus and the skin in Amanda&#8217;s case. Because she was only nine months old at this point, the urine was not collected in a bag but by her diaper.<\/p>\r\n<p>Surgery #4 was on October 18, 2002. Because Amanda had a colostomy, there was no rush to perform the Hirchsprung\u2019s pull-through procedure. Thus, the surgeons waited until she was almost a year old to perform this operation. The operation appeared to be successful, but we later learned that she has other bowel control issues that may or may not be related to Hirschsprung&#8217;s disease. The colostomy was left in place so the colon could heal. We had to dilate her anus each day for about a month. Rita couldn&#8217;t bring herself to do this, so I had to. It was not pleasant.<\/p>\r\n<p>Once Amanda\u2019s colon had healed sufficiently, on February 7, 2003, the surgeons removed her colostomy in the hope that she could have normal bowel movements. Unfortunately, while feces now moves through the colon and out, Amanda did not have complete control of when this happened.<\/p>\r\n<p>After months of trying to diagnose what was causing Amanda so much abdominal pain, an ultrasound technician happened to scan a little higher in her abdomen than intended and realized Amanda had gallstones. Because no one suspected a five-year-old child would have gallstones, the doctors never thought to look. She then had her gallbladder removed on August 21, 2007. I was later accused of saying she was lying about her pain. In fact, Rita and I couldn&#8217;t figure out what was going on. Ultrasounds showed nothing, so we thought maybe it was stress-related or she was nervous about going&#8211;or not wanting to go&#8211;back to school.<\/p>\r\n<p>At some point, the doctors also realized that Amanda had a tethered spinal cord. This happens when the very end of the spinal cord, which is essentially just the sheath that encases the nerves, gets entangled in the vertebrae. This is a problem because the spine grows faster than the spinal cord. Thus, if both ends are attached to something, i.e., the top to the brain and the bottom to the vertebrae, the spinal cord will get stretched as a child grows. This can then lead to neuro-muscular problems, especially in the lower extremities. This condition often resolves itself naturally so the plan was to monitor it and hope for that. After a few years, the neurologist decided that it was not going to fix itself naturally and the spinal cord was getting stretched to a point at which problems could develop. Thus, Amanda had surgery to untether her spinal cord. This sounds like a much more complicated and dangerous procedure than it really is. After shaving away a bit of the vertebra to access the entangled cord, the surgeon simply cuts the cord to release it. As there are no nerves in the spinal cord at this location, doing this does not do any neurological damage. The surgery was deemed a success, although as Amanda got older she started to have weakness in one of her legs. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s clear that the tethered spinal cord caused this but it seems like the natural culprit.<\/p>\r\n<p>Because Amanda was born with essentially no bladder, on June 3, 2008, the pediatric urologist at Hershey Medical Center constructed one from bowel tissue. He put a port in Amanda&#8217;s abdomen in which someone can insert a catheter to empty the bladder; we had to do this every three hours. Thus, we would have to wake her up twice a night to empty her bladder. The plan was to slowly stretch this time out because being woken up every three hours was not good for anyone. The idea was to let the pressure in the bladder stretch the bowel tissue because it is not as compliant as normal bladder tissue. However, after a few traumatic episodes later in 2008, Amanda refused to go more than three hours at night. Although we did try to stretch it out so that she would only be awoken once per night.<\/p>\r\n<p>These episodes started not long after Amanda recovered from surgery when we realized there was a problem with the channel connecting the port in her abdomen to the bladder. The surgeon had tried to make a valving mechanism so that when the bladder got full and expanded, the channel was pinched closed so urine did not leak out. The idea was that the catheter would push through this valve to release the pressure and drain the bladder. Unfortunately, on a few occasions and always at night when Amanda was sleeping, we would wake her and not be able to get the catheter in. Each time this resulted in a traumatic trip to the emergency room, and Amanda experienced a great deal of pain as her bladder distended. While the procedure to empty her bladder in this situation was simple\u2014inserting a needle through the abdominal wall\u2014the emergency room doctors always had to talk to the surgeons in Hershey to be certain of the procedure and where to insert the needle. Thus, on November 18, 2008, Amanda had another surgery in which they discovered the channel would get kinked when the bladder was overly full and repositioned things to prevent this. During this surgery time, the surgeons also created a port that allowed us to flush Amanda\u2019s bowels with an antegrade colonic enema or ACE.<\/p>\r\n<p>Amanda started having more trouble emptying her bladder at the end of 2012. It was the same issue as before; we could not get the catheter in, and we would have to take her to the emergency room. Again this always happened at night. I argued strongly that we should simply leave the catheter in at night since we were not following the bladder-stretching protocol. I ultimately sent the surgeon a long email about the issue and that I thought not leaving the catheter in at night was doing Amanda (and our family) much more harm than good. He agreed and said it was fine to leave the catheter in. Rita viewed this as an unacceptable compromise because it might make the value leak, and refused to do it. My thought was that if the valve did start leaking slightly, it was really no big deal. Amanda\u2019s classmates were not going to think she peed her pants if her shirt just under her ribs was slightly wet. Plus, we could always put gauze over the stoma to absorb anything that leaked. 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Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Amanda-1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby playing in the bath with colorful toys.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1494\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/Amanda-1\/3799538632.jpg\" alt=\"A baby in a bathtub holding a red cup with colorful bath toys nearby.\" title=\"Baby playing in the bath with colorful toys.\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000284.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby eating corn on the cob while sitting on an adult&#039;s lap.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1500\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000284\/1023304445.jpg\" alt=\"A baby in a white onesie sits on an adult&#039;s lap holding a long piece of corn on the cob, with the adult wearing blue scrubs.\" title=\"Baby eating corn on the cob while sitting on an adult&#039;s lap.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000217.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby holding a messy plate during a meal.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1497\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000217\/1009785393.jpg\" alt=\"A baby holds a dirty white paper plate in front of its face while sitting at a table with pizza box and pacifier nearby.\" title=\"Baby holding a messy plate during a meal.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000482.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler sits inside an open kitchen drawer amidst baby clothes in a messy kitchen.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1502\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000482\/2051525303.jpg\" alt=\"A young child sits inside an open kitchen drawer filled with baby clothes, surrounded by scattered laundry on the floor in a cluttered home kitchen.\" title=\"A toddler sits inside an open kitchen drawer amidst baby clothes in a messy kitchen.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000258.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby\u2019s feet visible beneath a sparkly pink crochet blanket among toys.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1498\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000258\/3917482336.jpg\" alt=\"A baby&#039;s feet peek out from under a pink crocheted blanket with sparkles, surrounded by stuffed animals on a blue surface.\" title=\"Baby\u2019s feet visible beneath a sparkly pink crochet blanket among toys.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC01322.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler rests on the floor in a patterned dress.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1496\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/DSC01322\/1944911617.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with curly hair wearing a white patterned dress lies on their side on a brown carpet next to a brick structure.\" title=\"A toddler rests on the floor in a patterned dress.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000259.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby in a colorful activity walker.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1499\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000259\/1674469691.jpg\" alt=\"A baby in a colorful activity walker sitting on a tiled floor.\" title=\"Baby in a colorful activity walker.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IM000789_1.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two young children posing together in front of a Christmas tree.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1535\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/thumb_IM000789_1\/4093506090.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting in front of a decorated Christmas tree.\" title=\"Two young children posing together in front of a Christmas tree.\" width=\"334\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000848.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Two toddlers sit together on a small blue chair in a child&#039;s bedroom.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1505\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000848\/529267007.jpeg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting on a small blue armchair in a bedroom with a bed and window.\" title=\"Two toddlers sit together on a small blue chair in a child&#039;s bedroom.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000862.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler peeks over a wooden fence from a backyard.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1506\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000862\/1750684926.jpg\" alt=\"A young child in a blue gingham dress stands on a green stool behind a wooden fence, looking out into a grassy backyard with trees and a house.\" title=\"A toddler peeks over a wooden fence from a backyard.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_4771.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children sit together on a train, looking at a laptop screen.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1537\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_4771\/3541785110.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting on a train with a laptop in front of them.\" title=\"Two children sit together on a train, looking at a laptop screen.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0253.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children pose for a photo near a train.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1520\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0253\/1473619961.jpg\" alt=\"Two children standing in front of a train with a fence between them.\" title=\"Two children pose for a photo near a train.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iPhoneAmanda-rotated-e1622298485575.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child&#039;s drawing of an iPhone covered in app icons.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1534\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/iPhoneAmanda-rotated-e1622298485575\/3431735665.jpg\" alt=\"Hand-drawn sketch of a smartphone filled with colorful app icons and the handwritten text &#039;I Phone&#039; on white paper.\" title=\"A child&#039;s drawing of an iPhone covered in app icons.\" width=\"378\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_largepv_3a46.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Child in motocross helmet poses indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1536\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_largepv_3a46\/3062490829.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing a colorful motocross helmet and blue patterned shirt stands indoors near a brick wall.\" title=\"Child in motocross helmet poses indoors.\" width=\"203\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2329-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1531\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_2329-scaled\/317217149.jpeg\" alt=\"Three young children wearing colorful helmets pose in a kitchen with stainless steel appliances.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000911-e1622386714724.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl in a Michigan dress standing indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1507\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000911-e1622386714724\/3265614803.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with curly blonde hair wearing a navy blue Michigan dress stands indoors.\" title=\"Young girl in a Michigan dress standing indoors.\" width=\"278\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM000913.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young child makes a playful, surprised face while resting their hands on their cheeks.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1508\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM000913\/952658595.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with blonde hair holding their face in a surprised expression.\" title=\"A young child makes a playful, surprised face while resting their hands on their cheeks.\" width=\"520\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0740-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two people pose with a large prop object indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1523\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0740-rotated\/911219082.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a blonde wig and tiara looks surprised while another person holds a large prop object near them.\" title=\"Two people pose with a large prop object indoors.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1791.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Children relaxing in a cozy wooden cabin living room.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1529\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1791\/4098997178.jpeg\" alt=\"Three children in pajamas sitting on a couch in a wooden cabin living room.\" title=\"Children relaxing in a cozy wooden cabin living room.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1809-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children pose in front of a stone wall in a snowy forest.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1530\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1809-rotated\/3455403106.jpg\" alt=\"Two children in winter jackets standing in front of a stone wall in a wooded area with snow on the ground.\" title=\"Two children pose in front of a stone wall in a snowy forest.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1635-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children pose for a photo while seated in a large indoor arena.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1528\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1635-rotated\/3400051454.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children wearing lanyards with ID cards stand in stadium seating.\" title=\"Two children pose for a photo while seated in a large indoor arena.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3484-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl poses on the beach with the Santa Monica Pier behind her.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1532\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3484-scaled\/3896763327.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing sunglasses and a black jacket stands on a sandy beach with the Santa Monica Pier in the background.\" title=\"A young girl poses on the beach with the Santa Monica Pier behind her.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1564.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Children admire a homemade snowman on a snowy day.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1527\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1564\/906129460.jpeg\" alt=\"Two children in winter coats look at a small snowman with orange eyes in a snowy backyard.\" title=\"Children admire a homemade snowman on a snowy day.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0863-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Children playing with sleds in the snow.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1526\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0863-rotated\/447140937.jpg\" alt=\"Two children in winter clothing holding sleds on a snowy field.\" title=\"Children playing with sleds in the snow.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0199.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children sit on the floor, one holding a baby seat.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1518\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0199\/311287319.jpeg\" alt=\"Two young children sitting on a carpeted floor indoors; one holds a blue patterned baby seat with visible text.\" title=\"Two children sit on the floor, one holding a baby seat.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0252.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Children posing on a sunny beach near the ocean.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1519\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0252\/1636037617.jpg\" alt=\"Two children standing on a sandy beach with the ocean in the background; one child holds hands over eyes.\" title=\"Children posing on a sunny beach near the ocean.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0268.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child reads a newspaper from a hospital bed.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1521\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0268\/1977020335.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with curly hair lies in a hospital bed wearing tiger-patterned pajamas and reading a newspaper while looking up.\" title=\"A child reads a newspaper from a hospital bed.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0011.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling child sits in a hospital bed, looking at the camera.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1511\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0011\/3970251208.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with light brown hair wearing a patterned top smiles while sitting in a hospital bed.\" title=\"A smiling child sits in a hospital bed, looking at the camera.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0800.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child rests peacefully in a hospital bed surrounded by medical monitors.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1524\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0800\/1141887177.jpg\" alt=\"A young child sleeping in a hospital bed with medical equipment nearby.\" title=\"A child rests peacefully in a hospital bed surrounded by medical monitors.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0016.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young child in a hospital gown lies on a bed with medical tape visible on their torso.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1512\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0016\/759990686.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with light brown hair lying on a bed wearing a tiger-patterned hospital gown and orange pants with medical tape on their abdomen.\" title=\"A young child in a hospital gown lies on a bed with medical tape visible on their torso.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0025.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl looks down at her bare midsection while wearing a yellow shirt pulled up over her head.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1514\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0025\/3613836903.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with blonde hair looking down at her bare torso which has several marks on it.\" title=\"A young girl looks down at her bare midsection while wearing a yellow shirt pulled up over her head.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0147.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl holds a newborn baby wrapped in white cloth with a pink hat in a hospital setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1516\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0147\/236118712.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink shirt holds a swaddled newborn baby wearing a pink hat in what appears to be a hospital room.\" title=\"A young girl holds a newborn baby wrapped in white cloth with a pink hat in a hospital setting.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0146.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing on a wooden porch with a backpack.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1515\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0146\/2211822581.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink floral dress stands on a wooden porch with a backpack.\" title=\"Young girl posing on a wooden porch with a backpack.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0305.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl poses playfully on a tiled floor.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1522\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0305\/3106361733.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with light brown hair wearing a white tank top and beige shorts sits on a patterned floor looking up at the camera.\" title=\"A young girl poses playfully on a tiled floor.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0018.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A child plays with a ball in an outdoor inflatable pool.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1513\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0018\/109424228.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a blue swimsuit stands waist-deep in an inflatable pool holding a yellow ball.\" title=\"A child plays with a ball in an outdoor inflatable pool.\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IM001938.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl poses playfully outside a garage filled with stored items.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1510\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IM001938\/992091919.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a purple shirt and yellow shorts stands outside a garage with wood stacked nearby.\" title=\"A young girl poses playfully outside a garage filled with stored items.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/09-30-05_1426.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young child sits with arms outstretched in a cozy setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"Favorite of Amanda\" data-attachment-id=\"1491\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/09-30-05_1426\/4073681629.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with curly blonde hair wearing a white fuzzy jacket and brown shoes, sitting with arms outstretched.\" title=\"A young child sits with arms outstretched in a cozy setting.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Favorite of Amanda<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC00263.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A father pushes his daughter on a swing at a park.\" data-caption-desc=\"A man sits on a swing while holding a toddler, both positioned between two swings at an outdoor playground. The ground is covered in wood chips, and there are blue metal support beams visible to the left. In the background, green trees and residential buildings can be seen under daylight conditions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1588\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/DSC00263\/3318905995.jpg\" alt=\"A man holding a small child on a swing at a playground with wood chips and trees in the background.\" title=\"A father pushes his daughter on a swing at a park.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A man sits on a swing while holding a toddler, both positioned between two swings at an outdoor playground. The ground is covered in wood chips, and there are blue metal support beams visible to the left. In the background, green trees and residential buildings can be seen under daylight conditions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-prev\" title=\"Prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">39<\/span><\/label>\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-next\" title=\"Next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n<p>One of the most difficult things with Amanda when she was young is never really knowing if she was sick with some normal childhood illness, e.g., the flu, or if there was something more problematic going on. As a child, she could tell us what hurt but had no idea why or if it felt like something serious or not. She would also regularly get bladder infections even though she (mostly) used single-use catheters. As she got older, she, of course, learned more about anatomy and, in particular, her peculiar anatomy, and is much better at distinguishing and helping diagnose what might be going on.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"right-sidebar\" style=\"border-color:#000009;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2F323C;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Insurance Companies 1<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">**Aside about medical expenses.<\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>I think a big part of the marital problems stems from Amanda\u2019s health issues. I <em>obviously<\/em> do not blame Amanda or anyone for these and hope she does not think I do, although, at one point during the divorce, it was mentioned that she thought I blamed her. I do not blame her <em>at all<\/em>, but I think we did not handle it well. The lack of sleep simply weighed on everyone over time. This was especially true for Rita (and Amanda) since Rita never trusted that I would wake up; I\u2019m a very sound sleeper. This led to some arguments between Rita and me because I felt if she was always going to get up even when it was my turn, why should I get up too? Rita would then get mad that I wasn\u2019t \u2018helping\u2019 her, but it wasn&#8217;t a two-person job, and there was no sense in both of us being sleep-deprived. Not surprisingly, Rita wound up being very grumpy all the time. I\u2019m sure Amanda likely overheard Rita and l debating how to handle things.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> I <\/span>just hope that she does not feel like she caused the marital problems. She couldn\u2019t help the situation, and Rita and I did not deal with it well.<\/p>\r\n<p>On April 22, 2008, Amelia was born&#8230; without having to be rushed to the NICU. Rita wanted to try one last time to have a &#8220;normal&#8221; pregnancy and birth. Fortunately, it worked out that way, and there really isn&#8217;t anything notable to say about her birth. I recall, however, when we first told Caleb and Amanda that Rita was pregnant with Amelia. We were thinking they would be really happy that they&#8217;d have a new brother or sister. However, as we told them and the news settled in, we could see the worry in their eyes, and they both started to cry. They then started asking us if we could take care of a third kid and telling us how hard it would be. They were worried that there wouldn&#8217;t be enough food. We were not at all prepared for this response, but we assured them things would be fine.<\/p>\r\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-1555_1 .fg-image { width: 640px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-image-viewer foogallery-link-image foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-image-viewer fg-ready fg-dark fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom fg-no-js\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-1555_1\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;src&quot;,&quot;srcset&quot;:&quot;srcset&quot;,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;loop&quot;:true,&quot;autoplay&quot;:0}}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fiv-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-inner-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0382-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Bright living room featuring floral sofas and large windows.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a well-lit living room with beige walls, carpeted flooring, and two matching floral-patterned sofas. A sliding glass door with sheer curtains allows natural light to enter, while a red curtain frames a smaller window on the left wall. Decorative elements include three-panel artwork above a built-in shelf displaying kitchen items, a framed picture on the far wall, and a large portrait painting near the right edge. A person is seated in a dark chair in the foreground, partially visible.\" data-attachment-id=\"1617\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0382-scaled\/4293647389.jpeg\" alt=\"A living room with two floral sofas, a sliding glass door, wall art, and a person sitting in a chair.\" title=\"Bright living room featuring floral sofas and large windows.\" width=\"640\" height=\"140\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Bright living room featuring floral sofas and large windows.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a well-lit living room with beige walls, carpeted flooring, and two matching floral-patterned sofas. A sliding glass door with sheer curtains allows natural light to enter, while a red curtain frames a smaller window on the left wall. Decorative elements include three-panel artwork above a built-in shelf displaying kitchen items, a framed picture on the far wall, and a large portrait painting near the right edge. A person is seated in a dark chair in the foreground, partially visible.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0381-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A person poses playfully on a couch in a sparsely furnished room.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a bedroom with light blue walls and hardwood floors. A person is seated on a dark red two-cushion sofa, wearing a striped dress and raising their right arm. To the left is a bed with a blue comforter; to the right are stacked purple boxes, a doorway leading to another room, and a wooden dresser.\" data-attachment-id=\"1616\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0381-scaled\/106616643.jpeg\" alt=\"A person sitting on a maroon couch in a bedroom with blue walls, raising one arm.\" title=\"A person poses playfully on a couch in a sparsely furnished room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"138\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A person poses playfully on a couch in a sparsely furnished room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a bedroom with light blue walls and hardwood floors. A person is seated on a dark red two-cushion sofa, wearing a striped dress and raising their right arm. To the left is a bed with a blue comforter; to the right are stacked purple boxes, a doorway leading to another room, and a wooden dresser.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0368-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Panoramic photo of a bedroom interior featuring exposed brick walls, a bed, and two people visible in different sections.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a panoramic view of a bedroom with exposed brick walls on multiple sides. A girl stands near the right wall next to a bed, while another person is seen taking a photo via a mirror reflection on the left side. There are hanging coats, a clock, and artwork visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1615\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0368-scaled\/3390861805.jpg\" alt=\"A panoramic view of a bedroom with brick walls, a bed, a girl standing near the wall, and a person taking a photo in a mirror.\" title=\"Panoramic photo of a bedroom interior featuring exposed brick walls, a bed, and two people visible in different sections.\" width=\"640\" height=\"138\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Panoramic photo of a bedroom interior featuring exposed brick walls, a bed, and two people visible in different sections.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a panoramic view of a bedroom with exposed brick walls on multiple sides. A girl stands near the right wall next to a bed, while another person is seen taking a photo via a mirror reflection on the left side. There are hanging coats, a clock, and artwork visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0369-1-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child stands next to a bed in a room featuring brick walls, a desk, and large windows.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a bedroom with an exposed brick wall on the left side where two garments hang. A young girl wearing a pink and white striped shirt is standing near a bed with white bedding. To the right, there is a desk area under a window with blinds, a lamp, and various items on shelves.\" data-attachment-id=\"1614\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0369-1-scaled\/60503502.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a striped shirt stands beside a bed in a bedroom with exposed brick walls and a desk area near windows.\" title=\"A child stands next to a bed in a room featuring brick walls, a desk, and large windows.\" width=\"640\" height=\"145\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child stands next to a bed in a room featuring brick walls, a desk, and large windows.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a bedroom with an exposed brick wall on the left side where two garments hang. A young girl wearing a pink and white striped shirt is standing near a bed with white bedding. To the right, there is a desk area under a window with blinds, a lamp, and various items on shelves.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1027-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Children enjoying a long slide at an outdoor fair.\" data-caption-desc=\"A wide, beige plastic slide is set up outdoors on grass under a blue sky. Two young girls are visible: one near the bottom of the slide bending over, and another further up sitting on the slide. To the left, part of a large white Ferris wheel with green and purple gondolas is visible. The slide has red triangular decorations along its sides and a sign reading &#039;FUN SLIDE&#039; at the top.\" data-attachment-id=\"1613\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1027-scaled\/2113827162.jpeg\" alt=\"Two children playing on a large outdoor slide at a fair with a Ferris wheel in the background.\" title=\"Children enjoying a long slide at an outdoor fair.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Children enjoying a long slide at an outdoor fair.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A wide, beige plastic slide is set up outdoors on grass under a blue sky. Two young girls are visible: one near the bottom of the slide bending over, and another further up sitting on the slide. To the left, part of a large white Ferris wheel with green and purple gondolas is visible. The slide has red triangular decorations along its sides and a sign reading 'FUN SLIDE' at the top.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_AQ2JkmbgjoOfsxLk261MPHkK_QND.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A girl poses playfully on a stone trail inside a lush, rocky gorge.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown or blonde hair lies on her stomach on a wet stone pathway within a narrow, rocky canyon. Behind her, a small stream flows down the rock face into a pool below, surrounded by dense green vegetation and towering cliffs.\" data-attachment-id=\"1612\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_AQ2JkmbgjoOfsxLk261MPHkK_QND.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with blonde hair looks surprised while lying on a stone path in a rocky canyon.\" title=\"A girl poses playfully on a stone trail inside a lush, rocky gorge.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A girl poses playfully on a stone trail inside a lush, rocky gorge.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown or blonde hair lies on her stomach on a wet stone pathway within a narrow, rocky canyon. Behind her, a small stream flows down the rock face into a pool below, surrounded by dense green vegetation and towering cliffs.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_0956.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child proudly displays a toy car while wearing safety goggles at an indoor gathering.\" data-caption-desc=\"A smiling young girl with blonde hair, wearing clear safety goggles and a pink shirt under a red apron, holds a colorful toy car in her hands. She stands indoors near white folding tables, possibly at a store event or workshop, with other people visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1611\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_0956.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing safety goggles and a red apron holds a colorful toy car in what appears to be a store or event space.\" title=\"A child proudly displays a toy car while wearing safety goggles at an indoor gathering.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child proudly displays a toy car while wearing safety goggles at an indoor gathering.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A smiling young girl with blonde hair, wearing clear safety goggles and a pink shirt under a red apron, holds a colorful toy car in her hands. She stands indoors near white folding tables, possibly at a store event or workshop, with other people visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_0975.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children enjoying a boat ride on a calm lake.\" data-caption-desc=\"A photograph shows two young girls on the deck of a small boat, both wearing blue life vests. The girl in the foreground has blonde hair and is smiling directly at the camera, while the girl behind her with brown hair looks toward the viewer. They are surrounded by water and trees in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1610\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_0975.jpg\" alt=\"Two young girls wearing blue life vests on a boat; one smiles at the camera while the other sits behind her.\" title=\"Two children enjoying a boat ride on a calm lake.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two children enjoying a boat ride on a calm lake.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A photograph shows two young girls on the deck of a small boat, both wearing blue life vests. The girl in the foreground has blonde hair and is smiling directly at the camera, while the girl behind her with brown hair looks toward the viewer. They are surrounded by water and trees in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1144.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing in a penguin costume.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl stands on a blue mat wearing a black leotard styled as a penguin with an orange bow tie and white belly patches. Her arms are raised above her head, and she is smiling at the camera.\" data-attachment-id=\"1609\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1144.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a black penguin costume with orange bow tie standing on blue mat\" title=\"Young girl posing in a penguin costume.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing in a penguin costume.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl stands on a blue mat wearing a black leotard styled as a penguin with an orange bow tie and white belly patches. Her arms are raised above her head, and she is smiling at the camera.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0297.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby crawling on carpet in a playroom setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child is seen from behind, crawling on a beige carpeted floor. The room contains various items including an electronic drum set, a wooden stool with a cushion, a baby gate with hanging toys, and scattered clothing or blankets. A doll lies nearby on the floor.\" data-attachment-id=\"1608\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0297\/3398901411.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby crawling on a carpeted floor in a room with toys and furniture.\" title=\"Baby crawling on carpet in a playroom setting.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby crawling on carpet in a playroom setting.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child is seen from behind, crawling on a beige carpeted floor. The room contains various items including an electronic drum set, a wooden stool with a cushion, a baby gate with hanging toys, and scattered clothing or blankets. A doll lies nearby on the floor.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0502-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A child stands indoors holding a long stick-like object.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing a blue dress and dark boots stands on a beige carpeted floor, holding a long black stick or wand in their right hand. Behind them is a white cube storage unit with red and black panels containing various items including shoes and bags. A black rectangular object lies on the floor nearby.\" data-attachment-id=\"1607\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0502-scaled\/3359095162.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child in a blue dress holds a long black stick with a small object at the end, standing on carpet near a storage unit.\" title=\"A child stands indoors holding a long stick-like object.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child stands indoors holding a long stick-like object.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing a blue dress and dark boots stands on a beige carpeted floor, holding a long black stick or wand in their right hand. Behind them is a white cube storage unit with red and black panels containing various items including shoes and bags. A black rectangular object lies on the floor nearby.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2711-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing a blue dress and a large lime-green motorcycle helmet stands barefoot on carpeted flooring, pointing with their right hand. The room contains a dark wooden cabinet with a television, a brick fireplace, a floor lamp, a small blue armchair, and part of a piano visible to the right.\" data-attachment-id=\"1606\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_2711-scaled\/3342865429.jpeg\" alt=\"A small child in a blue dress wearing a large green motorcycle helmet stands indoors pointing forward.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Back Camera<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing a blue dress and a large lime-green motorcycle helmet stands barefoot on carpeted flooring, pointing with their right hand. The room contains a dark wooden cabinet with a television, a brick fireplace, a floor lamp, a small blue armchair, and part of a piano visible to the right.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3178-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light brown hair stands on a patterned tile floor, wearing black-rimmed oversized glasses and a large plastic nose. The child has a blue pacifier in their mouth and is dressed in a black long-sleeved top with a red plaid skirt. Wooden kitchen cabinets are visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1605\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3178-scaled\/3479852971.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child wearing oversized glasses and a pacifier stands on a tiled floor in front of wooden cabinets.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Back Camera<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light brown hair stands on a patterned tile floor, wearing black-rimmed oversized glasses and a large plastic nose. The child has a blue pacifier in their mouth and is dressed in a black long-sleeved top with a red plaid skirt. Wooden kitchen cabinets are visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3667-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Two children rest in a dimly lit crib while gazing at a laptop screen.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows two young children lying side-by-side inside a wooden crib with vertical slats. A large lamp is mounted on the wall above them, casting warm light into the room. One child appears to be looking toward a black laptop placed in front of them, while the other looks slightly away. The scene suggests nighttime or low-light conditions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1604\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3667-scaled\/4151397914.jpeg\" alt=\"Two young children lying in a wooden crib at night, illuminated by a lamp above and looking toward a laptop screen.\" title=\"Two children rest in a dimly lit crib while gazing at a laptop screen.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two children rest in a dimly lit crib while gazing at a laptop screen.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows two young children lying side-by-side inside a wooden crib with vertical slats. A large lamp is mounted on the wall above them, casting warm light into the room. One child appears to be looking toward a black laptop placed in front of them, while the other looks slightly away. The scene suggests nighttime or low-light conditions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0210.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby in a checkered crib.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light skin and very short hair is visible from the chest up, peeking over the edge of a crib. The crib has a blue and white gingham patterned fabric lining and a ruffled skirt at the bottom. Behind the baby, there is a wooden cabinet with glass doors displaying floral patterns, and to the right, a tissue box sits on a surface.\" data-attachment-id=\"1603\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0210\/1812711578.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby with short hair looking forward from inside a blue and white checkered crib.\" title=\"Baby in a checkered crib.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby in a checkered crib.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light skin and very short hair is visible from the chest up, peeking over the edge of a crib. The crib has a blue and white gingham patterned fabric lining and a ruffled skirt at the bottom. Behind the baby, there is a wooden cabinet with glass doors displaying floral patterns, and to the right, a tissue box sits on a surface.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0276.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby wearing a red bowl as a hat.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child in a patterned long-sleeve shirt has a large red plastic bowl balanced on top of their head. The child is looking directly at the camera with one hand raised near the side of the bowl. In the background, there is a blue baby playpen with the brand name &#039;GRACO&#039; visible.\" data-attachment-id=\"1602\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0276\/4182184704.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby wearing a red plastic bowl on their head, looking at the camera with one hand raised.\" title=\"Baby wearing a red bowl as a hat.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby wearing a red bowl as a hat.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child in a patterned long-sleeve shirt has a large red plastic bowl balanced on top of their head. The child is looking directly at the camera with one hand raised near the side of the bowl. In the background, there is a blue baby playpen with the brand name 'GRACO' visible.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0374-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A cheerful child waves from inside a packed walk-in closet.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands inside an open closet, raising her right hand in a wave. The closet contains hanging winter coats, a wire shelf with folded linens and hats, a black shoe organizer, and various items on the floor including paper towels and plastic bags.\" data-attachment-id=\"1601\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0374-scaled\/2539493792.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink striped dress stands smiling with one arm raised inside a cluttered closet filled with hanging coats, shelves, and household items.\" title=\"A cheerful child waves from inside a packed walk-in closet.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A cheerful child waves from inside a packed walk-in closet.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands inside an open closet, raising her right hand in a wave. The closet contains hanging winter coats, a wire shelf with folded linens and hats, a black shoe organizer, and various items on the floor including paper towels and plastic bags.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0375-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A child reaches up to a mirror in a bathroom decorated with blue wallpaper and various toiletries.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a bathroom with blue textured wallpaper, a white toilet with a brown seat cover, a medicine cabinet above it, and a shower area with a dark curtain. A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands near the sink, raising her right arm toward a uniquely shaped mirror on the wall.\" data-attachment-id=\"1600\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0375-scaled\/1205843270.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink striped dress stands in a bathroom with blue patterned wallpaper, reaching toward a mirror while holding a small object.\" title=\"A child reaches up to a mirror in a bathroom decorated with blue wallpaper and various toiletries.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child reaches up to a mirror in a bathroom decorated with blue wallpaper and various toiletries.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a bathroom with blue textured wallpaper, a white toilet with a brown seat cover, a medicine cabinet above it, and a shower area with a dark curtain. A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands near the sink, raising her right arm toward a uniquely shaped mirror on the wall.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0829-rotated.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby in a green fuzzy wig with a pacifier.\" data-caption-desc=\"A close-up photo of an infant wearing a bright green, shaggy wig that covers most of their head. The baby has a light blue pacifier in their mouth and is dressed in a white onesie with pink floral patterns and a dark heart graphic on the chest. The background shows a domestic interior with furniture and toys.\" data-attachment-id=\"1599\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0829-rotated\/4134063884.jpg\" alt=\"A baby wearing a green fuzzy wig and a blue pacifier with a heart design on the shirt.\" title=\"Baby in a green fuzzy wig with a pacifier.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby in a green fuzzy wig with a pacifier.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A close-up photo of an infant wearing a bright green, shaggy wig that covers most of their head. The baby has a light blue pacifier in their mouth and is dressed in a white onesie with pink floral patterns and a dark heart graphic on the chest. The background shows a domestic interior with furniture and toys.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0897-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl sits proudly with a small American flag.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with blonde hair is sitting outdoors, wearing a navy blue dress with white stars and red trim. She holds a small American flag on a stick in her hands. A red plastic bucket is visible next to her, and she wears pink shoes.\" data-attachment-id=\"1598\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0897-scaled\/2573890793.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a patriotic dress holding a small American flag.\" title=\"A young girl sits proudly with a small American flag.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl sits proudly with a small American flag.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with blonde hair is sitting outdoors, wearing a navy blue dress with white stars and red trim. She holds a small American flag on a stick in her hands. A red plastic bucket is visible next to her, and she wears pink shoes.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1036.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child enjoys a dragon-themed carnival ride under a bright blue sky.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl sits inside a green and purple plastic dragon-shaped ride vehicle at an outdoor fair or amusement park. The ride features orange lights along its sides and is suspended against a backdrop of a white building with a metal roof and power lines overhead.\" data-attachment-id=\"1597\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1036\/3035676404.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with blonde hair smiles while riding a colorful dragon-shaped amusement park ride on a sunny day.\" title=\"A child enjoys a dragon-themed carnival ride under a bright blue sky.\" width=\"430\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child enjoys a dragon-themed carnival ride under a bright blue sky.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl sits inside a green and purple plastic dragon-shaped ride vehicle at an outdoor fair or amusement park. The ride features orange lights along its sides and is suspended against a backdrop of a white building with a metal roof and power lines overhead.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0047.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A child runs energetically during an outdoor activity.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with blonde hair, wearing a maroon t-shirt and patterned shorts, is captured mid-stride running on a paved surface. She wears bright yellow sneakers with pink accents and white socks. In the background, other children are visible standing on grass near a brick wall; one child to her left wears a long-sleeved maroon shirt and gray shorts, while another in an orange shirt stands partially out of frame.\" data-attachment-id=\"1595\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0047\/3943920234.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a maroon shirt and colorful shorts runs across asphalt while other children stand nearby on grass.\" title=\"A child runs energetically during an outdoor activity.\" width=\"332\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child runs energetically during an outdoor activity.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with blonde hair, wearing a maroon t-shirt and patterned shorts, is captured mid-stride running on a paved surface. She wears bright yellow sneakers with pink accents and white socks. In the background, other children are visible standing on grass near a brick wall; one child to her left wears a long-sleeved maroon shirt and gray shorts, while another in an orange shirt stands partially out of frame.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0372.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling man and young girl pose together for a close-up selfie-style photo indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"The image shows a man with short hair, glasses, and a dark leather jacket over a buttoned shirt, leaning his head near a young girl with light brown hair wearing a bright pink jacket. They are both looking toward the camera with gentle smiles. In the background, there is indoor greenery and what appears to be a tiled wall section.\" data-attachment-id=\"1594\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0372\/941176944.jpeg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a leather jacket smiles closely with a young girl in a pink jacket; they are indoors near green plants.\" title=\"A smiling man and young girl pose together for a close-up selfie-style photo indoors.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A smiling man and young girl pose together for a close-up selfie-style photo indoors.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The image shows a man with short hair, glasses, and a dark leather jacket over a buttoned shirt, leaning his head near a young girl with light brown hair wearing a bright pink jacket. They are both looking toward the camera with gentle smiles. In the background, there is indoor greenery and what appears to be a tiled wall section.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0373-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A joyful child poses playfully on the stairs.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a red and white striped dress stands on carpeted stairs, holding onto a door frame with one hand while her other arm is raised. She appears to be laughing or shouting with her mouth open. The setting includes an interior hallway with wooden flooring visible nearby.\" data-attachment-id=\"1593\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0373-scaled\/3229726285.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a red and white striped dress stands on stairs with arms outstretched near a door.\" title=\"A joyful child poses playfully on the stairs.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A joyful child poses playfully on the stairs.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a red and white striped dress stands on carpeted stairs, holding onto a door frame with one hand while her other arm is raised. She appears to be laughing or shouting with her mouth open. The setting includes an interior hallway with wooden flooring visible nearby.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0388-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Excited child posing playfully in a rustic kitchen.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands in a kitchen, raising one hand while holding the handle of a small refrigerator. Behind her is an exposed brick wall with hanging umbrellas and a black cabinet next to a stainless steel refrigerator adorned with magnets and papers.\" data-attachment-id=\"1592\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0388-scaled\/672684573.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink striped dress stands excitedly in a kitchen with exposed brick walls and stainless steel appliances.\" title=\"Excited child posing playfully in a rustic kitchen.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Excited child posing playfully in a rustic kitchen.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands in a kitchen, raising one hand while holding the handle of a small refrigerator. Behind her is an exposed brick wall with hanging umbrellas and a black cabinet next to a stainless steel refrigerator adorned with magnets and papers.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0919.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing in a bee costume while ice skating.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl stands on white ice skates against a plain background. She wears a yellow and black striped dress with short black sleeves, a black tulle skirt, matching striped knee-high socks, and a headband with two yellow antennae. A yellow flower decoration is attached to the left side of her dress.\" data-attachment-id=\"1591\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0919\/2775849447.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a bee costume with yellow and black stripes, wearing ice skates.\" title=\"Young girl posing in a bee costume while ice skating.\" width=\"245\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing in a bee costume while ice skating.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl stands on white ice skates against a plain background. She wears a yellow and black striped dress with short black sleeves, a black tulle skirt, matching striped knee-high socks, and a headband with two yellow antennae. A yellow flower decoration is attached to the left side of her dress.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1026-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Children playing on a large slide at an outdoor fair.\" data-caption-desc=\"A long, beige plastic slide is set up outdoors on grass at what appears to be a carnival or fair. A young child sits near the bottom of the slide holding a brown cloth, while another small child is further up the slide. To the left, part of a Ferris wheel with green and purple gondolas is visible against a blue sky with scattered clouds.\" data-attachment-id=\"1590\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1026-scaled\/3639155800.jpeg\" alt=\"Two children on a long outdoor slide at a fair with a Ferris wheel in the background.\" title=\"Children playing on a large slide at an outdoor fair.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Children playing on a large slide at an outdoor fair.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A long, beige plastic slide is set up outdoors on grass at what appears to be a carnival or fair. A young child sits near the bottom of the slide holding a brown cloth, while another small child is further up the slide. To the left, part of a Ferris wheel with green and purple gondolas is visible against a blue sky with scattered clouds.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-8-6-12-at-10.49-PM.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A man and a young girl pose together indoors near a brick wall.\" data-caption-desc=\"An indoor photo shows a man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt standing behind a young girl in a striped shirt who is holding her cheeks. A lit lamp is visible to the left, and a brick wall forms the background on the right.\" data-attachment-id=\"1589\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-8-6-12-at-10_49-PM\/2167713866.jpeg\" alt=\"A man with glasses and a beard stands behind a young girl in a striped shirt who is holding her cheeks, both looking toward the camera indoors near a brick wall.\" title=\"A man and a young girl pose together indoors near a brick wall.\" width=\"541\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man and a young girl pose together indoors near a brick wall.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An indoor photo shows a man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt standing behind a young girl in a striped shirt who is holding her cheeks. A lit lamp is visible to the left, and a brick wall forms the background on the right.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0369.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A cheerful child in a colorful outfit smiles brightly for the photo.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown hair is shown from the chest up, wearing a bright blue t-shirt featuring a large butterfly graphic. She has on a turban-style hat made of light blue and white fabric with pink trim. Behind her is a painted backdrop resembling a brick wall or castle structure.\" data-attachment-id=\"1587\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0369.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing a blue shirt with a butterfly design and a light-colored turban-style hat, smiling at the camera.\" title=\"A cheerful child in a colorful outfit smiles brightly for the photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A cheerful child in a colorful outfit smiles brightly for the photo.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown hair is shown from the chest up, wearing a bright blue t-shirt featuring a large butterfly graphic. She has on a turban-style hat made of light blue and white fabric with pink trim. Behind her is a painted backdrop resembling a brick wall or castle structure.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0857.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Child seated on sofa with oversized basket in front.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light hair sits barefoot on a gray couch, holding a large wooden basket that obscures their torso. The basket contains indistinct objects including something red and dark. To the right is a closed blue case or folder; to the left lies a crumpled piece of foil.\" data-attachment-id=\"1586\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0857\/2908619820.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child sitting on a couch holding a large wooden basket with items inside.\" title=\"Child seated on sofa with oversized basket in front.\" width=\"272\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Child seated on sofa with oversized basket in front.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light hair sits barefoot on a gray couch, holding a large wooden basket that obscures their torso. The basket contains indistinct objects including something red and dark. To the right is a closed blue case or folder; to the left lies a crumpled piece of foil.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1530.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Two kids wrestling playfully on a beige carpet.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl in a denim vest and jeans stands over another child lying on their back on a light-colored carpet. The standing child is holding the legs of the child on the floor, who is wearing a brown long-sleeved shirt. In the background, there is a wooden cabinet and a brick fireplace area with some items stored nearby.\" data-attachment-id=\"1585\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1530\/1924687986.jpeg\" alt=\"Two children playing on a carpeted floor; one child stands while the other lies on their back.\" title=\"Two kids wrestling playfully on a beige carpet.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Two kids wrestling playfully on a beige carpet.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl in a denim vest and jeans stands over another child lying on their back on a light-colored carpet. The standing child is holding the legs of the child on the floor, who is wearing a brown long-sleeved shirt. In the background, there is a wooden cabinet and a brick fireplace area with some items stored nearby.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3174-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light brown hair stands on a tiled kitchen floor, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt under a red plaid dress. The child wears large round novelty glasses and holds a small blue object in one hand while touching their face with the other. Behind them is a stainless steel refrigerator and an oven.\" data-attachment-id=\"1584\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3174-scaled\/414515689.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child wearing oversized glasses and a plaid dress stands in a kitchen holding a small object.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Back Camera<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light brown hair stands on a tiled kitchen floor, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt under a red plaid dress. The child wears large round novelty glasses and holds a small blue object in one hand while touching their face with the other. Behind them is a stainless steel refrigerator and an oven.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-2010-08-02-at-17.30.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A man rests with a sleeping child on his chest.\" data-caption-desc=\"An adult male wearing glasses and a gray shirt is reclining in a brown upholstered chair. A young child with light hair, wearing a white sleeveless top, sleeps against the man&#039;s chest with a yellow pacifier in their mouth.\" data-attachment-id=\"1583\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-2010-08-02-at-17_30\/2791805426.jpeg\" alt=\"A man with glasses and a beard lies in a chair holding a sleeping child with a pacifier.\" title=\"A man rests with a sleeping child on his chest.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A man rests with a sleeping child on his chest.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An adult male wearing glasses and a gray shirt is reclining in a brown upholstered chair. A young child with light hair, wearing a white sleeveless top, sleeps against the man's chest with a yellow pacifier in their mouth.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TalkatoneMessage-2.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Child playing with toys in a bedroom.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing red pajamas with floral patterns stands facing a wooden play kitchen, holding a clear plastic bottle. A stuffed dinosaur toy lies on the carpeted floor near her feet. To the left is a pet cage on a blue mat, and above the kitchen hangs a pendulum clock.\" data-attachment-id=\"1582\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/TalkatoneMessage-2\/992446249.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in pajamas stands at a toy kitchen holding a bottle while a stuffed animal lies on the floor nearby.\" title=\"Child playing with toys in a bedroom.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Child playing with toys in a bedroom.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing red pajamas with floral patterns stands facing a wooden play kitchen, holding a clear plastic bottle. A stuffed dinosaur toy lies on the carpeted floor near her feet. To the left is a pet cage on a blue mat, and above the kitchen hangs a pendulum clock.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1217.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl smiling from inside a car.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with long blonde hair and a pink shirt is seen smiling broadly while leaning her head out of a car window. The background shows green trees and daylight, indicating an outdoor setting during the day.\" data-attachment-id=\"1581\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1217.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl with long blonde hair wearing a pink shirt smiles while leaning out of a car window.\" title=\"Young girl smiling from inside a car.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl smiling from inside a car.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with long blonde hair and a pink shirt is seen smiling broadly while leaning her head out of a car window. The background shows green trees and daylight, indicating an outdoor setting during the day.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0383-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A smiling child sits in a cozy living room decorated with striped furniture and natural light.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress is seated on a dark red armchair in a well-lit living room. The room features two sofas with green and white stripes, a glass-topped coffee table, a television on a wooden stand, and large windows with curtains. A brick wall is visible on the right side of the frame.\" data-attachment-id=\"1580\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0383-scaled\/1917375825.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a striped dress sits on a red armchair in a living room with striped sofas and a brick wall.\" title=\"A smiling child sits in a cozy living room decorated with striped furniture and natural light.\" width=\"640\" height=\"198\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A smiling child sits in a cozy living room decorated with striped furniture and natural light.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress is seated on a dark red armchair in a well-lit living room. The room features two sofas with green and white stripes, a glass-topped coffee table, a television on a wooden stand, and large windows with curtains. A brick wall is visible on the right side of the frame.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0371-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing beside a large garment bag in a well-stocked walk-in closet.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands with her arms crossed inside a walk-in closet. To her left hangs a large, light-colored garment bag with the text &#039;WEDDINGTON WAY&#039; printed on it. The background shows shelves filled with shoes, folded items, and hanging clothes.\" data-attachment-id=\"1579\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0371-scaled\/2395959361.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink striped dress stands with arms crossed next to a large garment bag hanging in a closet filled with shoes and clothes.\" title=\"Young girl posing beside a large garment bag in a well-stocked walk-in closet.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing beside a large garment bag in a well-stocked walk-in closet.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a pink and white striped dress stands with her arms crossed inside a walk-in closet. To her left hangs a large, light-colored garment bag with the text 'WEDDINGTON WAY' printed on it. The background shows shelves filled with shoes, folded items, and hanging clothes.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/7d0b5aad9e0d581b67f044fd2d0866ce95bc04c2.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl smiles while standing in what appears to be a salon or retail space.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown hair is centered in the frame, wearing a sleeveless top with yellow and white chevron stripes. Behind her to the left is an armchair with a gray and white zigzag pattern; behind her to the right are shelves stocked with numerous bottles of varying colors and sizes, likely hair or beauty products. The floor is tiled green, and there is a window with blinds in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1578\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/7d0b5aad9e0d581b67f044fd2d0866ce95bc04c2\/443984094.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a yellow and white striped tank top stands in front of shelves filled with bottles, smiling at the camera.\" title=\"A young girl smiles while standing in what appears to be a salon or retail space.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl smiles while standing in what appears to be a salon or retail space.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown hair is centered in the frame, wearing a sleeveless top with yellow and white chevron stripes. Behind her to the left is an armchair with a gray and white zigzag pattern; behind her to the right are shelves stocked with numerous bottles of varying colors and sizes, likely hair or beauty products. The floor is tiled green, and there is a window with blinds in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0370-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl in a pink and white striped dress smiles while standing near a staircase.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with shoulder-length brown hair stands smiling, wearing a short-sleeved pink and white horizontal striped dress. She is positioned in a hallway or entryway next to an exposed brick wall on the right and a light green painted wall on the left. Behind her, a wooden staircase ascends toward another room with visible doors.\" data-attachment-id=\"1577\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0370-scaled\/2945035487.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink and white striped dress stands smiling near a doorway with stairs leading upward.\" title=\"A young girl in a pink and white striped dress smiles while standing near a staircase.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl in a pink and white striped dress smiles while standing near a staircase.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with shoulder-length brown hair stands smiling, wearing a short-sleeved pink and white horizontal striped dress. She is positioned in a hallway or entryway next to an exposed brick wall on the right and a light green painted wall on the left. Behind her, a wooden staircase ascends toward another room with visible doors.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0376-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl smiles from inside a room framed by an open wooden door.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown hair stands in the center of the frame, wearing a pink and white horizontal striped dress and black shoes. She is positioned in front of an open wooden door that reveals a blue-walled room behind her. The foreground shows dark wood flooring and parts of adjacent door frames.\" data-attachment-id=\"1576\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0376-scaled\/2497323976.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a pink and white striped dress stands smiling in a doorway.\" title=\"A young girl smiles from inside a room framed by an open wooden door.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl smiles from inside a room framed by an open wooden door.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown hair stands in the center of the frame, wearing a pink and white horizontal striped dress and black shoes. She is positioned in front of an open wooden door that reveals a blue-walled room behind her. The foreground shows dark wood flooring and parts of adjacent door frames.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1188-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing playfully on a blue mat indoors.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a layered yellow and light green dress stands on a large blue exercise mat inside a room with white walls. She has her arms raised above her head, holding her hair back, and is looking downward with a slight smile. A standard electrical outlet is visible on the wall to her left.\" data-attachment-id=\"1575\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1188-scaled\/3848871355.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a yellow and green dress stands on a blue mat with her hands behind her head.\" title=\"Young girl posing playfully on a blue mat indoors.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing playfully on a blue mat indoors.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a layered yellow and light green dress stands on a large blue exercise mat inside a room with white walls. She has her arms raised above her head, holding her hair back, and is looking downward with a slight smile. A standard electrical outlet is visible on the wall to her left.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0816-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child shares a moment with a squirrel over a colorful cup on the couch.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with shoulder-length blonde hair is seated on a brown couch, wearing a long-sleeved shirt with horizontal stripes in white, green, and dark blue. The child holds a purple plastic cup decorated with colorful letters and dots; a gray squirrel stands beside them, eating from the cup while scattered seeds lie nearby.\" data-attachment-id=\"1574\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0816-scaled\/1100212732.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with blonde hair wearing a striped shirt sits on a couch holding a purple cup while a squirrel eats from it.\" title=\"A child shares a moment with a squirrel over a colorful cup on the couch.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child shares a moment with a squirrel over a colorful cup on the couch.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with shoulder-length blonde hair is seated on a brown couch, wearing a long-sleeved shirt with horizontal stripes in white, green, and dark blue. The child holds a purple plastic cup decorated with colorful letters and dots; a gray squirrel stands beside them, eating from the cup while scattered seeds lie nearby.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0927-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl rides a pony while being assisted by two men near an old shed.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a colorful helmet and purple dress sits on a brown pony with a saddle blanket. A man in a green shirt holds the reins, and another man in a gray shirt stands beside her. They are positioned in front of a weathered wooden structure with a metal roof.\" data-attachment-id=\"1573\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0927-scaled\/362414247.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl wearing a colorful helmet sits on a brown pony being led by two men in front of a rustic wooden shed.\" title=\"A young girl rides a pony while being assisted by two men near an old shed.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl rides a pony while being assisted by two men near an old shed.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a colorful helmet and purple dress sits on a brown pony with a saddle blanket. A man in a green shirt holds the reins, and another man in a gray shirt stands beside her. They are positioned in front of a weathered wooden structure with a metal roof.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0970-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Three young girls posing together at an outdoor gathering.\" data-caption-desc=\"Three young girls stand on grass at what appears to be an outdoor festival or concert. The girl on the left wears glasses and holds a drink; the middle girl is smaller and wears pink; the girl on the right holds a striped paper cup with a straw. In the background, other people sit in folding chairs under tents, with hills visible in the distance.\" data-attachment-id=\"1572\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0970-scaled\/3434392562.jpeg\" alt=\"Three young girls standing outdoors at a festival or event, holding drinks in paper cups.\" title=\"Three young girls posing together at an outdoor gathering.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Three young girls posing together at an outdoor gathering.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Three young girls stand on grass at what appears to be an outdoor festival or concert. The girl on the left wears glasses and holds a drink; the middle girl is smaller and wears pink; the girl on the right holds a striped paper cup with a straw. In the background, other people sit in folding chairs under tents, with hills visible in the distance.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1038.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl smiles while riding a carousel horse at a fair.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with shoulder-length light brown hair is seated on a black carousel horse, smiling broadly at the camera. She wears a sleeveless striped shirt in pastel colors and lime green shorts, holding onto a metal pole with her right hand while extending her left arm outward. The carousel features colorful painted decorations including blue, red, yellow, and pink patterns on the horse&#039;s saddle area. In the background, other people are visible near additional rides under bright daylight conditions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1571\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1038\/3455169684.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling young girl with light brown hair wearing a striped shirt and green shorts rides a black carousel horse at an outdoor fair.\" title=\"A young girl smiles while riding a carousel horse at a fair.\" width=\"344\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl smiles while riding a carousel horse at a fair.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with shoulder-length light brown hair is seated on a black carousel horse, smiling broadly at the camera. She wears a sleeveless striped shirt in pastel colors and lime green shorts, holding onto a metal pole with her right hand while extending her left arm outward. The carousel features colorful painted decorations including blue, red, yellow, and pink patterns on the horse's saddle area. In the background, other people are visible near additional rides under bright daylight conditions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1155-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Young girl posing confidently in a black dress and red boots.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with light brown hair stands on a bright blue floor mat in an indoor room with beige walls. She is wearing a sleeveless black dress that reaches her knees and shiny red cowboy-style boots. Her right arm is raised behind her head while her left hand rests on her hip, and she looks slightly to the side.\" data-attachment-id=\"1570\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1155-scaled\/3655381358.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl with blonde hair wearing a black dress and red boots posing on a blue mat indoors.\" title=\"Young girl posing confidently in a black dress and red boots.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Young girl posing confidently in a black dress and red boots.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with light brown hair stands on a bright blue floor mat in an indoor room with beige walls. She is wearing a sleeveless black dress that reaches her knees and shiny red cowboy-style boots. Her right arm is raised behind her head while her left hand rests on her hip, and she looks slightly to the side.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2352-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Back Camera\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light brown or blonde hair is standing on a patterned carpet, facing slightly upward toward the camera. The child wears a bright red short-sleeved top with ruffled detailing at the front, a dark blue skirt, and pink shoes. They are holding onto the black straps of a small backpack that has white piping along the edges. Behind them is a plain wall with a partially visible white paper or sign attached near the top.\" data-attachment-id=\"1569\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_2352-scaled\/3451906932.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with blonde hair wearing a red top and blue skirt stands indoors holding the straps of a small backpack.\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Back Camera<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light brown or blonde hair is standing on a patterned carpet, facing slightly upward toward the camera. The child wears a bright red short-sleeved top with ruffled detailing at the front, a dark blue skirt, and pink shoes. They are holding onto the black straps of a small backpack that has white piping along the edges. Behind them is a plain wall with a partially visible white paper or sign attached near the top.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4367-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child in a pink helmet rests on a bench at an indoor ice or roller skating rink.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing a pink helmet with white trim, a light gray jacket, dark pants, and roller skates sits on a wooden bench. The child has a name tag pinned to their jacket and is looking toward the camera. In the background, there are other benches, bright overhead lights, and a wall with signage including &#039;3WZ 92.3 FM&#039;.\" data-attachment-id=\"1568\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_4367-scaled\/3223651949.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing a pink helmet and roller skates sits on a wooden bench in an indoor skating rink.\" title=\"A child in a pink helmet rests on a bench at an indoor ice or roller skating rink.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child in a pink helmet rests on a bench at an indoor ice or roller skating rink.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing a pink helmet with white trim, a light gray jacket, dark pants, and roller skates sits on a wooden bench. The child has a name tag pinned to their jacket and is looking toward the camera. In the background, there are other benches, bright overhead lights, and a wall with signage including '3WZ 92.3 FM'.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_4368-scaled.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Child in roller skates resting on a bench at the ice rink.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing a red helmet, grey jacket, dark pants, and roller skates sits on a yellow wooden bench. The background shows other people and bright lighting typical of an indoor skating facility.\" data-attachment-id=\"1567\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_4368-scaled\/364484963.jpg\" alt=\"A young child wearing a red helmet and roller skates sits on a yellow bench in an indoor rink.\" title=\"Child in roller skates resting on a bench at the ice rink.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Child in roller skates resting on a bench at the ice rink.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing a red helmet, grey jacket, dark pants, and roller skates sits on a yellow wooden bench. The background shows other people and bright lighting typical of an indoor skating facility.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Messages-Image1197791408.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A young girl sits with a small American flag during what appears to be a patriotic event.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl with blonde hair is seated outdoors wearing a navy blue sleeveless dress decorated with white stars and red trim. She holds a miniature American flag in her right hand, and there is a red plastic bucket beside her on the ground. The background includes blurred figures and bright daylight conditions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1566\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/Messages-Image1197791408\/1796525909.jpeg\" alt=\"A young girl in a patriotic dress holding a small American flag and sitting next to a red bucket.\" title=\"A young girl sits with a small American flag during what appears to be a patriotic event.\" width=\"249\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A young girl sits with a small American flag during what appears to be a patriotic event.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl with blonde hair is seated outdoors wearing a navy blue sleeveless dress decorated with white stars and red trim. She holds a miniature American flag in her right hand, and there is a red plastic bucket beside her on the ground. The background includes blurred figures and bright daylight conditions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0195.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby learning to walk with a safety harness.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing pink polka-dot pajamas and a blue patterned walking harness stands on a beige carpet. The harness is attached to black straps that extend upward, likely connected to furniture nearby. In the background, there is an office chair with wheels and wooden drawers under a desk.\" data-attachment-id=\"1565\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0195\/2539249384.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby in a walking harness standing on carpet near an office chair.\" title=\"Baby learning to walk with a safety harness.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby learning to walk with a safety harness.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing pink polka-dot pajamas and a blue patterned walking harness stands on a beige carpet. The harness is attached to black straps that extend upward, likely connected to furniture nearby. In the background, there is an office chair with wheels and wooden drawers under a desk.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0272.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Toddler reaches for laptop while standing on a box.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing pink patterned pajamas and a light blue long-sleeve shirt stands barefoot on a floral-patterned box. The child has a pacifier in their mouth and is reaching toward an open laptop placed on a wooden adjustable desk. A printer sits behind the desk, and various household items are visible in the background.\" data-attachment-id=\"1564\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0272\/2673555396.jpeg\" alt=\"A toddler with a pacifier stands on a floral box reaching for a laptop on a raised desk.\" title=\"Toddler reaches for laptop while standing on a box.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Toddler reaches for laptop while standing on a box.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing pink patterned pajamas and a light blue long-sleeve shirt stands barefoot on a floral-patterned box. The child has a pacifier in their mouth and is reaching toward an open laptop placed on a wooden adjustable desk. A printer sits behind the desk, and various household items are visible in the background.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0391.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Baby sticks tongue out while being held by an adult.\" data-caption-desc=\"A close-up photo shows a young infant wearing a white bib with pink butterfly patterns, looking directly at the camera with its tongue extended. Behind the baby, an adult is partially visible wearing a brown t-shirt with a graphic design on the sleeve that includes clouds and possibly text or imagery resembling a landscape.\" data-attachment-id=\"1563\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0391\/2230898964.jpeg\" alt=\"A baby with a patterned bib sticking its tongue out while sitting in front of an adult wearing a brown shirt.\" title=\"Baby sticks tongue out while being held by an adult.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Baby sticks tongue out while being held by an adult.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A close-up photo shows a young infant wearing a white bib with pink butterfly patterns, looking directly at the camera with its tongue extended. Behind the baby, an adult is partially visible wearing a brown t-shirt with a graphic design on the sleeve that includes clouds and possibly text or imagery resembling a landscape.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0620.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"An older woman cradles a sleeping newborn baby on a sofa.\" data-caption-desc=\"An elderly woman with short gray curly hair and wire-rimmed glasses sits on a dark upholstered couch, holding a sleeping newborn baby dressed in light pink clothing. She leans forward to kiss the infant&#039;s forehead while resting against patterned cushions.\" data-attachment-id=\"1562\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0620\/3852173309.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly woman with gray curly hair and glasses holds a sleeping newborn baby wrapped in pink clothing on a dark couch.\" title=\"An older woman cradles a sleeping newborn baby on a sofa.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">An older woman cradles a sleeping newborn baby on a sofa.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An elderly woman with short gray curly hair and wire-rimmed glasses sits on a dark upholstered couch, holding a sleeping newborn baby dressed in light pink clothing. She leans forward to kiss the infant's forehead while resting against patterned cushions.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1561.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"Toddler watching snow fall from inside a home.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child with light hair stands barefoot on carpeted flooring inside a house, wearing a pink and white striped jacket over patterned pajamas. The child holds a small blue object in one hand and looks toward the camera. Through a large sliding glass door behind them, snow is falling outside, where another person in a blue hooded coat sits near a snowman.\" data-attachment-id=\"1561\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_1561\/184790618.jpeg\" alt=\"A toddler in a pink striped jacket stands indoors holding a small object, looking toward the camera while snow falls outside through a sliding glass door.\" title=\"Toddler watching snow fall from inside a home.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Toddler watching snow fall from inside a home.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child with light hair stands barefoot on carpeted flooring inside a house, wearing a pink and white striped jacket over patterned pajamas. The child holds a small blue object in one hand and looks toward the camera. Through a large sliding glass door behind them, snow is falling outside, where another person in a blue hooded coat sits near a snowman.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0146.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A peaceful newborn baby resting in a hospital crib.\" data-caption-desc=\"A newborn infant lies on its back in a hospital bassinet, covered partially by a white towel and patterned blanket. The baby has a heart rate monitor electrode attached to the chest with a wire running across the body. Nearby are medical supplies including alcohol prep pads and a bulb syringe, indicating post-birth care.\" data-attachment-id=\"1560\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0146\/2879651348.jpeg\" alt=\"A newborn baby sleeping in a hospital bassinet with medical monitoring equipment attached.\" title=\"A peaceful newborn baby resting in a hospital crib.\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A peaceful newborn baby resting in a hospital crib.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A newborn infant lies on its back in a hospital bassinet, covered partially by a white towel and patterned blanket. The baby has a heart rate monitor electrode attached to the chest with a wire running across the body. Nearby are medical supplies including alcohol prep pads and a bulb syringe, indicating post-birth care.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0623.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A grandfather holds his newborn baby in a cozy living room setting.\" data-caption-desc=\"An older man with thinning hair, wearing a dark graphic t-shirt and light-colored pants, sits in a beige upholstered armchair. He is cradling a sleeping infant dressed in pink clothing. In the background, there is a blue patterned sofa with folded pink fabric on it, a small wooden side table with papers and a tissue box, and a window letting in natural light.\" data-attachment-id=\"1559\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_0623\/471923970.jpg\" alt=\"An older man in a dark t-shirt sits in a beige armchair holding a sleeping newborn baby wrapped in pink clothing.\" title=\"A grandfather holds his newborn baby in a cozy living room setting.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A grandfather holds his newborn baby in a cozy living room setting.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">An older man with thinning hair, wearing a dark graphic t-shirt and light-colored pants, sits in a beige upholstered armchair. He is cradling a sleeping infant dressed in pink clothing. In the background, there is a blue patterned sofa with folded pink fabric on it, a small wooden side table with papers and a tissue box, and a window letting in natural light.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3753-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption-title=\"A toddler holds a large head of lettuce while sitting on a bed surrounded by toys and boxes.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young child wearing pink pajamas with snowflake patterns sits cross-legged on a bed, holding a large head of lettuce wrapped partially in clear plastic. Behind the child are cardboard boxes, books, and various household items, including a globe and a toy figure. To the right, a tablet screen is visible displaying colorful content.\" data-attachment-id=\"1558\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2021\/05\/IMG_3753-scaled\/2714872418.jpeg\" alt=\"A young child in pink pajamas sits on a bed holding a large head of lettuce wrapped in plastic near their face.\" title=\"A toddler holds a large head of lettuce while sitting on a bed surrounded by toys and boxes.\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A toddler holds a large head of lettuce while sitting on a bed surrounded by toys and boxes.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young child wearing pink pajamas with snowflake patterns sits cross-legged on a bed, holding a large head of lettuce wrapped partially in clear plastic. Behind the child are cardboard boxes, books, and various household items, including a globe and a toy figure. To the right, a tablet screen is visible displaying colorful content.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_AYwabNaRGb4uRNs6NMrDNxD8HkD.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Three individuals posing together outdoors against a layered rock wall.\" data-caption-desc=\"A man wearing a cap and glasses stands on the left, a young girl with blonde hair is in the center, and a boy in a graphic t-shirt and jeans is on the right. They are positioned in front of a large, textured stone cliff or rock formation.\" data-attachment-id=\"1557\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_AYwabNaRGb4uRNs6NMrDNxD8HkD.jpg\" alt=\"Three people standing in front of a rocky cliff face, smiling at the camera.\" title=\"Three individuals posing together outdoors against a layered rock wall.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Three individuals posing together outdoors against a layered rock wall.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A man wearing a cap and glasses stands on the left, a young girl with blonde hair is in the center, and a boy in a graphic t-shirt and jeans is on the right. They are positioned in front of a large, textured stone cliff or rock formation.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1136.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"A child presents a long, oversized check-like object inside a room.\" data-caption-desc=\"A young girl wearing a purple and blue zip-up jacket stands indoors holding a very long, thin, white rectangular object that resembles an oversized ceremonial bank check. She is positioned next to a window with a view of snow outside, and the object extends vertically beyond her reach.\" data-attachment-id=\"1556\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.unstablefocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/thumb_IMG_1136.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl in a purple jacket holds a long white object resembling a ceremonial check indoors near a window.\" title=\"A child presents a long, oversized check-like object inside a room.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">A child presents a long, oversized check-like object inside a room.<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">A young girl wearing a purple and blue zip-up jacket stands indoors holding a very long, thin, white rectangular object that resembles an oversized ceremonial bank check. She is positioned next to a window with a view of snow outside, and the object extends vertically beyond her reach.<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-prev\" title=\"Prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">60<\/span><\/label>\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"fiv-next\" title=\"Next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-15\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P9.mp3?_=15\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P9.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P9.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Shoe Store<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As I mentioned previously, Rita worked in a Stride Rite children\u2019s shoe store for a few years while I was a graduate student. She seemed to enjoy it for the most part and had learned a lot about the children\u2019s shoe business.<\/p>\r\n<p>Shortly after Amanda was born, we went to the local Stride Rite to get shoes for Caleb and saw they were closing. We inquired about this and were told the owners were getting divorced and selling the story to divide the assets. Since Rita had experience managing a children\u2019s shoe store, we discussed buying it. Looking at their tax returns for the prior three years, it was pretty clear the store was making money. We knew they were pretty desperate to sell, so we simply offered to purchase the inventory. They accepted, and we were owners of a children\u2019s shoe store.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was pretty clear in 2002 that the future of retail was online, but I thought parents would really want to have their children try shoes on before buying them. Plus, I had looked into e-commerce software and thought it wouldn\u2019t be too hard to develop an online presence that might combine the ease of online shopping with the benefits of making sure the shoes fit. By the time we closed the store, even Stride Rite, who had always emphasized how the people at their stores had been trained to make sure the shoes fit well, was selling online. However, I think the two things that really hurt the business were Zappos\u2019 free delivery\/returns and not competing on selection. I\u2019d heard from several colleagues that they would buy three or four pairs from Zappos and return those that didn\u2019t fit well. Obviously, the price of shipping was included in the price of the shoes, but the convenience outweighed the higher cost for most people.<\/p>\r\n<p>With the ability to store shoes in cheap warehouse space&#8211;not in a small retail store&#8211;and deep pockets to keep many shoes in stock, Zappos could simply offer people a much wider selection than we could. One of the difficulties in the shoe business, especially the children\u2019s shoe business, is maintaining inventory. When you multiply the number of styles by the number of sizes and then by two or three different widths, you get some huge numbers. Plus, you needed to place orders months in advance, and there is usually no way to replenish inventory once popular styles sell out. I think large chain stores had more clout with the manufacturers to refresh inventory, and they also had the ability to move shoes from store to store.<\/p>\r\n<p>A change we made at the outset was to no longer be an official Stride Rite franchise. There was no franchise fee, but Stride Rite required that 80% of your inventory had to be their shoes. Rita wanted to sell New Balance, Sketchers, Elefanten, and Nike shoes, and Robeez slippers. There was no way we would be able to maintain an 80% Stride Rite inventory. In hindsight, I\u2019m not sure how they would have really ever known since I don\u2019t recall a Stride Rite representative visiting the store. Although, maybe if we kept the Stride Rite name, they would have checked. We decided to call the store Small Feats Footwear.<\/p>\r\n<p>With all of the turmoil in our lives at that time, I think this was not a very smart decision in hindsight. I was still an assistant professor, and while Caleb was doing well, we knew Amanda had a lot ahead of her. The plan was to hire people to work there for a few years as things with Amanda stabilized. Unfortunately, it was hard to find reliable employees, although we did find a few. However, they were often students who moved on when they graduated. Plus, we could really only afford to have one person there at a time. This resulted in a lot of laziness because there was no other person to tell us their coworker was not doing anything.<\/p>\r\n<p>I also learned that running a small business is a lot of work. Advertising is something that I don\u2019t think we ever really understood well. It was expensive and hard to tell if it was working. We advertised on the radio and local television a bit but never really could quantify how or if it benefitted sales. We also sent out many mailers and participated in coupon packs you often get in the mail. The postcard advertisements we send were probably the most effective as they were targeted at prior customers. They were also relatively cheap. If we still operated the store, I\u2019m sure we would have replaced these with email, which would have been significantly cheaper without having the postcards printed and paying the postage to mail them.<\/p>\r\n<p>I developed a point-of-sale system that could also act as a website for online sales, which we never really deployed. I used an open-source e-commerce web application called osCommerce written in the scripting language PHP and used an open-source database to store information. One benefit of this was that it allowed me to learn to program in PHP and interface software with a database. I made many custom modifications to osCommerce to fit the needs of a shoe store and added inventory tracking and payroll\/accounting pieces to it.<\/p>\r\n<p>One of the problems I saw with the normal shoe store model of having samples on display and a back room full of inventory was that most of the time, kids left disappointed because they would see a style they really liked on the showroom floor. However, the particular size they needed was not in stock. When we moved locations, we decided to use a new strategy of having everything on display. I built about 20 large shelving units with sloped shelves at eye level for displaying shoes and cabinets above and below for storing the boxes. To try to prevent theft, we kept one shoe on display and the other in the box in the cabinets. With this arrangement, parents could simply have their kids\u2019 feet measured and take them to the section containing their size to pick from what we had. This seemed to work well.<\/p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, the shoe store never made any money, and we wound up with a lot of debt from it. While the Robeez slippers always sold well, we simply could not compete with the inventory and convenience of Zappos. We tried buying and selling used children\u2019s clothes for a while, but that didn\u2019t seem to help things much. I learned a lot from that experience, but the lessons were costly.\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-16\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P10.mp3?_=16\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P10.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P10.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h2>A Tragedy<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Just after midnight on November 16, 2002, we were awakened by a telephone call. We didn\u2019t make it to the phone in time to answer it and figured it was probably a wrong number or something. However, when the phone rang again, we knew it was something serious. It was Rita&#8217;s brother Mark, and when I heard Rita say, \u201cMark, please tell me it&#8217;s not true. Please, Mark. Tell me it\u2019s not true.\u201d I realized that something terrible had happened. I first assumed it was something about her mother or father, but after what seemed like forever for Rita to regain her composure, she finally said, \u201cthe boys are dead.&#8221; \u201cThe boys\u201d were my three nephews who were 13, 10, and 7 years old at the time and lived in Milan, the town in which I was raised.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is probably the worst experience I have ever been through. It occurred seven months before my mother passed away and a year after Amanda was born. Rita (especially) and I were very close with the oldest boy, who we took care of regularly when he was a baby.<\/p>\r\n<p>I am not completely sure of the details, but from what I understand, an electrical fire started in a small attic space next to where the boys had their bedroom. They think maybe when the house had a new roof installed, a nail might have shorted some wires. The fire apparently smoldered for several hours during the evening. When it finally burned through the bedroom wall near the top of the stairs, a great deal of heat had built up and now, given ample oxygen, almost immediately engulfed the stairwell and much of the bedroom. At this point, the fire alarms went off, but the upstairs bedroom was cut off from the downstairs where Rita&#8217;s sister and her husband were sleeping. They immediately called for help but were blocked from going up the stairs. They then went outside and tried with a ladder to get to the only window away from the heart of the fire. They could not reach the window because the ladder was too short. Once they found something to elevate the ladder further, the fire was simply too hot even to approach the window; it melted the vinyl siding on their neighbor\u2019s house.<\/p>\r\n<p>This was a tragedy that one would like to think was caused by negligence, so you can tell yourself it couldn\u2019t happen to you. However, it really seems like nothing could have been done. Everything that could have gone wrong did.<\/p>\r\n<p>I hope that the boys were overcome by the smoke and passed out because they were burned beyond recognition. Some volunteer firefighters were burned through their protective gear trying to get to the boys. One was the brother of a high school friend who apparently went through many months of therapy trying to deal with what he saw.<\/p>\r\n<p>My brother drove up from the Washington, D.C., area to help with things, and he wound up driving all of us to Michigan. On the way there, just as we were getting out of State College, I started having severe pains in my abdomen. At first, I thought maybe it was just from the stress. However, as the pain intensified, I asked Lee to pull into a gas station because I thought maybe it was severe gas pain. I could barely walk to the bathroom and realized I needed to be seen by a doctor. We were very close to the local hospital, so we took a detour there. I was admitted to the E.R. and informed that I had a kidney stone. I had never had one before, so I was not familiar with the pain. Fortunately, it passed quickly, the pain almost immediately went away, and it didn\u2019t delay our arrival in Michigan too long. I had another kidney stone a couple of years later but have not had one since. It could not have happened at a worse time.<\/p>\r\n<p>The aftermath of this is still an issue for me, and I assume for Rita. She regularly cried for a year, was then depressed for many more years, and was then upset that her memories of her nephews were fading.<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019m sure Amanda doesn\u2019t remember anything about this as she was just over a year old. However, Caleb was four at the time. I\u2019m not sure what he still remembers, but I suspect a lot. We talked to a counselor about how to help him deal with this as he was very close to his cousins. The counselor told us he was really too young to be concerned about his own death. However, he didn\u2019t seem to be doing well, so we had the counselor see him a few times. It turns out that he wasn\u2019t afraid of dying, but he was afraid that if he did die, it would make everyone very sad, and he didn\u2019t want that to happen again. I\u2019m not sure if this is the reason, but he has a tremendous amount of empathy now.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that David would now be **, Dustin **, and Anthony **. When you die, you stop aging; they are still children in the only memories I have of them. It was like my own children caught up to and passed their cousins as they aged.<\/p>\r\n<p>I also suspect that this incident really altered the course of my marriage as I suspect that Rita\u2019s sister and mother, who live very close to one another in Michigan, pushed very hard for Rita to move so our kids could somehow fill the void left by the death of my nephews.<\/p>\r\n<p>I wrote much of this many years ago, but it still makes me cry as I edit it now.<\/p>\r\n\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-17\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P11.mp3?_=17\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P11.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P11.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Stroke (and Another)<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>One evening in the fall of 2011, I was sitting at home on the couch while Rita took the kids to get takeout for dinner. Suddenly the room started spinning, and when I closed my eyes, I had a hard time keeping myself from tilting to the right. It was like &#8216;up&#8217; was in a different direction, and to keep from tipping over on the couch, I needed to lean to the right. It was very odd. At first, I thought something had happened in my inner ear as my equilibrium was way off. I tried to stand up, but there was no way I could keep my balance. I then crawled over to the end table to get my phone and called Rita, who I suspect immediately called 911.<\/p>\r\n<p>After I hung up the phone, I started to sweat more than I think I ever have. My hair and shirt were soaked in minutes. I also started to feel extremely nauseous and thought I was going to vomit. I think Rita arrived before the ambulance did. I really had no idea what was going on but was oddly not that worried about it. By the time the ambulance arrived, I felt a little better but still had to be wheeled out of the house into the ambulance. They took me to the E.R. at Mount Nittany Medical Center. By the time I arrived at the hospital, maybe 15 minutes later, I felt significantly better.<\/p>\r\n<p>At the hospital, they did a scan to see if blood flow was constricted anywhere. At the time, I don\u2019t even think I realized that they were checking to see if I had had a stroke. After the tests, they took me back to the E.R., and at that point, I was feeling pretty much normal. The doctor came in and said I\u2019d had a vertebral artery dissection (which sounded to me a lot worse than it is) and a mini-stroke. I was shocked. I really had no idea what I\u2019d experienced was as serious as a stroke.<\/p>\r\n<p>I was taken to Geisinger Medical Center, a much larger medical facility, by ambulance. I spent about three days there under close observation as they were afraid another clot could form. They had me on strong blood thinners to try to prevent this. For about a week after I was released, I had to give myself shots of blood thinner that caused huge bruises around the injection site. I then took Coumadin for many months and had to get the levels checked to adjust the dose frequently.<\/p>\r\n<p>An arterial dissection happens when the interior wall of the artery tears away, creating a flap of tissue. This will eventually heal, but a clot can form from the stagnant blood that gets trapped by the flap. When this clot breaks free, it can travel into the brain and eventually reach a blood vessel too small for it to pass. This cuts off blood flow to whatever region of the brain was supplied blood by this vessel.<\/p>\r\n<p>People have vertebral arteries on each side of their neck that run alongside the carotid arteries and provide blood to the brain. As you can see in the illustration, the vertebral arteries snake around the vertebrae and this tortuous path can cause wear on the artery. The illustration makes it pretty clear that at the location pointed to by the top arrow, contorting your neck can put a lot of strain on this artery. It turns out vertebral artery dissections are actually not that uncommon. They are sometimes caused inadvertently by chiropractors and people \u201ccracking\u201d their necks. Painters are at risk for this because they often look up for extended periods as they paint ceilings. People that have connective tissue issues are also at much higher risk.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"right-sidebar\" style=\"border-color:#000009;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2F323C;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Health Insurance 2<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">An extremely frustrating and somewhat humorous interaction with my insurance resulted from this. The first time I was transported by ambulance to the larger hospital (about 90 miles away), my insurance paid for it. The second time they refused. I spent days on the phone with the hospital, the ambulance company, and my insurance to figure out why this was. I think the bill came to over $10,000, so I really did not want to have to pay for it. I went around and around with them, with the hospital telling me they\u2019d provided the same diagnosis code to the insurance in each case and referring me to the ambulance service. The ambulance service said the doctor must have deemed the trip not medically necessary. I kept telling the insurance company that it was the doctors in the E.R. that sent me by ambulance to Geisinger, so it was obviously medically necessary.<\/p>\r\n<p>In the end, I learned that there was a second code provided to the insurance by the ambulance company. Apparently, this diagnosis was provided by an EMT in the ambulance. I have no idea why the insurance company would rely on this, but they did. In the first ambulance trip, the EMT had \u201cdiagnosed\u201d me with a cerebral hemorrhage which I, fortunately, did not actually have. In the second case, the EMT \u201cdiagnosed\u201d me with a headache. Argh!! Ultimately, I convinced the insurance that there was no way an E.R. doctor would send me by ambulance to a hospital 90 miles away for a headache.<\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>I did not belong to any of these categories and had not been to a chiropractor recently. However, sometimes they simply happen for no apparent reason. I asked the neurologist I saw after getting out of the hospital if I should or should not do anything to prevent this from happening again. He basically said to avoid having chiropractors do anything to my neck and not &#8220;crack&#8221; it, which I never did anyway. Other than that, he said it was probably just a fluke thing and would likely never happen again.<\/p>\r\n<p>Oddly enough, it happened again almost a year to the day after the first one. This time I was in my office at Penn State, and the symptoms were very different. Instead of being dizzy and disoriented, my left side went numb. I stumbled out of my office to get my assistant, who drove me to the local hospital. They again did the same tests and told me that I\u2019d had another vertebral artery dissection and another mini-stroke. However, this time it was the artery on the other side of my neck. I was again taken by ambulance to Geisinger Medical Center for another three days of observation. Later, the neurologist said he\u2019d never in 25 years of practice seen someone that had had two of these. He essentially said I was just extremely unlucky. I was really hoping I could learn what might have caused them, but I never did. Now, I simply take a baby aspirin each day to help prevent a clot if another dissection occurs. Fortunately, while I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve had another dissection, I have not had another mini-stroke.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P1.mp3\">https:\/\/unstablefocus.mynetgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ch1P1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s difficult to explain the purpose of this book. In part, it&#8217;s a memoir of significant events in my life, and I will recount most of the events in chronological order. However, telling my life story is not the goal; most of my life was pretty boring and uneventful.<\/p>\r\n<p>Much of the book is a collection of cathartic writings I did over the last two decades, focusing on events since 2013. A major personal goal was to collect all these writings in a single document. Another goal was to publicly tell my side of the events that drastically changed my life. I hope that maybe it will prevent some of the things that happened to me from happening to others, and maybe some laws can change. However, these laws deal with the very touchy subject of domestic violence and abuse and are very difficult to discuss critically. Some laws have gone too far in their attempt to prevent abuse, but I have no great suggestion for how these laws should change even after years of thought. In the end, I am most angry at the men (and women) that actually abuse their families and have made these laws necessary in the first place.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With that said, before getting to the story of how I spent a year in jail, spent nine months on house arrest, spent many years on probation, lost my job, lost my house, and lost my children, I will provide some account of my early life as it pertains to the events on which this book focuses.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n<p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to explain the purpose of this book. In part, it&#8217;s a memoir of significant events in my life, and I will recount most of the events in chronological order. However, telling my life story is not the goal; most of my life was pretty boring and uneventful. 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