I take a lot of photos of my kids.
Doesn't everyone?
How many are you in?
I went back through the last two months and guess how many I am in. Guess.
ZERO.
Oh man. It was a wake-up call. So was this post HERE.
And I am going to remedy this situation as fast as possible. Just try to get me to take your photo without me stretching my arm out as far as it can go and breaking my wrist so it can bend enough to get a shot of ME with YOU. Whoever YOU are. Because I don't even care. My kids, my husband, my parents, my friends, my clients. I am going to start putting myself in more photos b/c it is SAD that for the last two months there is not one captured memory of me and my kids. Sad.
This is what got me from that post:
1. In five years you will look five years older….you WILL look young in the pictures you take today!
2. Ten years ago I thought I was fat. Oh my goodness….I should have taken pictures THEN.
3. Your children look at you all day long. THEY know what you look like. They won’t care how you look in the picture.
I really don’t like how I look in pictures. It pains me. I still want to look like I did when I was 25 years old. And really I’m shocked that I don’t.
But seriously. My children love me just the way I am. Chins and all.
Consider this your call to action!
The beginning of a long series of images that will look like this...
The settings are wrong for the light we were in, the focus is off, the crop is funky, the editing was fast but I LOVE THEM. I might just frame these.
I love them.
My kids can look back and know that in May of 2009 their mom LOVED them.
And I hadn't showered or put on make-up or brushed my hair or gotten out of my pjs yet for these.
I love it. Snap out of it and GET IN THE PICTURE!
Today.
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In other big boy news... yesterday I went in to get Grayson from his nap and he was SITTING UP in his crib. Until this week he has been pretty much a sit and stay put kind of kid. But all of a sudden he is scooting and crawling and pulling up and rolling around like he has ants in his pants. He can't sit still. It's been 11 long months of not moving and he's making up for it!
So today, when I went up after morning nap I brought my camera just in case he was sitting up again...
See him waving? Can't get any cuter!
He will be one year old in a month. I can't believe I have almost survived a year! My life is going to seem so simple!
And I WILL NOT mention that he has slept through the night for two weeks straight. I will not. Because the chance of jinxing myself terrifies me!
Love this kid.
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Rocking and Rolling on all the JUNK that needs to get done around here. Watching a very dark storm gather outside my window. Praying for long naps so I can wrap up some work AND take a shower.
Enjoy the rest of your day!
