I love this picture. I make no claims to be a photographer and I wish that I could "dress up" the photo a little more, but it's the moment that I love. This was taken yesterday evening around 6pm, while I was getting dinner ready. This really captures J at this age -- bone-tired from telling me "I'm not ever sleepy anymore Mommy" at naptime. Still wearing his swimsuit from running out and jumping in the wading pool every hour or so all day. Nice summer tan. Asleep with his Trio building block thingy that he got for Christmas and completely ignored until this past week when I've been making him spend an hour every day alone in his room for Quiet Time, and he's suddenly "discovered" all these toys that he forgot he had. This creation is a "robot building." And the kicker--he fell asleep like that watching the Michael Jackson "Beat It" video over and over again. It's little details like these I know I'll forget over the years when I see these photos but I hope I can hold on to memories of J in the summer he was 4...
Practice makes perfect
14 years ago
5 comments:
The memory of a photo is so much more important than the actual photo!
Love it!
That is such a great photo! The kids are loving swimming lessons and then coming home to jump in our pool. They will hopefully sleep more.
I love those moments too. You look at your little one and he's just busy doing his thing, and all the sudden you get the warm fuzzy feeling because this is what it's all about.
Great photo, great memories to document! We all have a million of these little moments--things you want to remember with the intensity you feel them at the time.
p.s. Lana has those Trio blocks and she hates them b/c she can't unsnap them. Every single time she plays with them she ends up in tears of frustration. Man, I regret buying those--I can live without the drama--LOL.
I love it! What a great moment that you captured! And years from now you can fill him in on all the details. They are SO busy at this age, and I guess they like to deny that they are tired.
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