January Pictures

random-- i find that most of my pictures tend to be of the most random assortment. no stories to be told, no fun captions to mark them, just plain old pictures of my kids going about their normal life. but i actually LOVE to take pictures of our precious kids under normal circumstances and then look back and smile on the small & simple things of life. like the time i whipped out my camera to attempt to catch that heart-melting mile wide grin that Eli likes to put on display for me, only to catch the "serious" face each time I tried (1). or the time Eli was drunk happy after an extra long nursing session and wouldn't budge from his sleepy state, even with Robby and Maddie screaming and running around the couch pretending to be running from Monsters (2). or on a sunday when I was completely head over heels in love with the way Eli looked all dressed up in his big boy church shirt and pants (3). or when Maddie walked up to me and asked me to take her picture in her "pretty, pretty" outfit with good luck bear, proceeded to give me a totally sweet smile and then to top it all off actually looked at the camera with her eyes AND her head (4/5). or when i looked over at Robby during breakfast and noticed that he once again had his green train at the kitchen table and was trying to feed it his breakfast cereal and milk, with the most content look on his face (6). what a wonderful and sacred calling it is to mother these precious children and spend each day with them.

(1) I have been trying for the past month to get a picture of my little guy smiling. So far the only big grin I have managed to capture was on my phone (but I don't know how to transfer those to a computer??). This picture will have to do for now, until I can get a better one.

*note: i LOVE these mittens that my mother-in-law gave me for Eli to wear, they have SAVED his face from being covered in scratches!(2)

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