Dandelion Wishes

This is one of those grainy photos taken with a cell phone, but it is still just too cute not to post. I wish I had a real camera at the time as I caught the moment perfectly. Thane has taken to picking the dandelions as he is trying to save them from the lawnmower.

Lost Tooth

Thane lost his first tooth today at 6 years, 4 months, and one week old. I have been dreading this for a long time as he doesn't handle change well. It was indeed traumatic, but we seem to have solved the problem within about 10 minutes. We made a note asking the Tooth Fairy to return the tooth so he can put it in his keepsake box. Otherwise he says he will miss it. He hasn't eaten since he lost it, though, so we'll have to see how that goes.

Thane's Spring School Portrait

I think Thane's spring school portrait came out pretty cute . . . just like him!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

It may sound silly, but I am very proud of Braeden today . . . he went to school today dressed like this. It takes a very fun-loving person to be confident enough to pull this off. He's made me smile a bunch of times today while he isn't even home.

It was cute, he got out of the car at school and put on his stove-pipe hat. There is always a teacher outside at the driveway at school as a greeter. Today it was Sarah, someone who thoroughly enjoys Braeden's humor. She totally lit up when she saw him, so it was fun to see that.

I think he is adorable. He tells me I am not supposed to say that anymore!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Especially from Braeden!

Picture Day

Today is Picture Day at Thane's school. He'll get his individual portrait done, and then pictures taken with the class. I ordered a medium-sized set of prints so I hope they come out well.

Braeden's pictures were done at school yesterday. I think the photography teacher, who does the pictures at his school, saw that he had his hair cut and figured it was as good a time as any.

We had Amy Wilton, the photography teacher at Riley and a professional photographer, do family pictures a couple of weeks ago. I will just post a couple of my favorites here.

Braeden Then and Now

The black and white pictures are some of Braeden's school portraits that gave me quite the chuckle in 2007. The color shots are ones I took while sitting in the backyard a couple of weeks ago. He looks a lot different, in my opinion, but there is a sameness in the images nevertheless.

Getting Portraits

I guess the best reason to hire a photographer is to get good portraits . . . we haven't done it in years! These are some that I took as a practice run. Thane was mostly uncooperative and I am totally unskilled at dealing with the light. Hopefully the photographer images are better!



I made Dave a collage of pictures of mostly Braeden (I had already done Thane a week ago).


Below is what Thane really wanted to be doing . . . walking in circles around the base of the tower on top of Mount Battie.

A Classic Family Portait

I must have mellowed a lot over the years. Instead of feeling frustrated, I find this kind of cute.

Before Dave showed up, I had the brother's pose together more successfully.

Union & Windsor Fair Pictures

Halloween Cowboy in August

A certain young boy was trick-or-treating at my house today . . . and his big brother was adorable too. Thane decided he wants to be a cowboy for Halloween, so Braeden went hunting through his old costume stuff and got Thane all set up. I couldn't resist the teaching opportunity, so we played trick-or-treat for awhile. The smiles were worth every second, including the sharing of chocolates and dum-dum lollipops!

Moth Eyes

This is me being a bit silly . . . This lunar moth was staring through the screen at us the other night. Kind of cool.

A Bug and a Plane