in your eyes

I love taking pictures of the kids eyes!

I like taking pictures
of their toes too, well, at least I did when they were babies...
So yeah, I guess that makes sense why I don't have as many toe pictures as I do of their eyes. Baby toes are cute, Tween toes, not so much.

This one you might have seen before. I took it in 2004 of DJ. I blew it up to an 11x14, framed it, and had it in their playroom. I think it's from my first digital camera --





This one is of Paige in 2007, making fun of me -- because I was trying to take pictures of her eyes.

Kelly Anne at the pool July 2007

and her first black eye in 2008

(thanks Paige)

and with DJ

Paige showing me her eyes again in August 2008
(goofy chick)

and my sleeping baby girl in September '08

Well, if you have been wondering why I am posting all these eye photos, I am planning on entering

The Paper Mama Photo Challenge 

next week when the theme will be 

Eyes

Because I like taking pictures of the kids eyes -- I happen to have a few of them...
and after spending a little time looking through some of my Picasa Albums
I still have no idea which one I want to enter in the challenge!
I intend to try and take a few between now and the contest, but I am still looking through old ones -- and so my next post will probably be
in your eyes, part 2

Please, let me know if there is one that you think I should use, or even a comment letting me know I should keep looking.

Here is even one of me! It was one of my first profile pictures on Facebook ~

twenty-two months

22 months is a big deal age. Not like 18 months or anything, but it is pretty much the last time you use months when answering how old your baby is. After 22 months it turns into "almost two" and then 2!
and Mikey is 22 months old today --

He likes to jump off of everything. EVERYTHING
He likes to stand on his skateboard and do 'tricks'
He goes up AND down the stairs without crawling/using his hands

He has a chipped tooth from hitting his face on the coffee table --
I think the tooth might even be 'dead'

If I don't wake him up because we need to be somewhere in the morning, he will sleep until 10:30.

He likes the idea of going bye bye, but really doesn't like being in the car all that much -- or at least strapped into the car-seat.
He is usually shy around strangers,
unless it's a pretty girl

We just put out all the Little People
for him and he could play with them all day.
He makes sure that the people are facing the correct way in the car/plane and will drive them from the house to the farm while saying, "vrooom vrooom"

When we are at the park, he loves going down the slide. The higher the better.

He is a quiet boy. Mostly. Watches everything. Tells you what he wants. Sometimes he whispers it. Will parrot back almost anything, if he is in the mood.
His new thing is to say "please" when he asks for something
(and "penis" when he gets a diaper change)
and he likes to yell for his siblings --
"Kelly, come!"
"DJ!"
"PAiGGGGeeee"

He can put his clothes on himself, but mostly likes to remove them.
He eats like a big kid, can use a fork and drinks from a cup, but doesn't really like kid food.

He likes to pretend he is a dog.
He loves to run.

He LOVES to climb on Daddy.

He thinks my iPod belongs to him.

He likes trains and likes saying choo choo when he plays with them, or in a book, or sees a bus.

He likes giving out *smooches* and fist bumps.
He loves to sing!

Lately, he is not so much a baby --
and now at 22 months he is really getting to be a Big Boy!

{this moment}

A single photo (or two)
- no words - capturing a moment from the week

a simple, 

special, 

extraordinary moment

a moment I want to pause, 

savor 

and remember

please

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where it all started

Soule Mama