Today was a really fun fabulous day! My soccer team ROCKED THE FIELD TODAY! They actually passed and backed each other up, and kicked the ball to their teammates when clearing it. I was (pleasantly) SHOCKED! My team consists of 4, 5, and 6 year olds. Only there aren’t any 6 year olds on it! So, for those of you not familiar with soccer at this age, it mostly consists of a swarm of bees kids around the ball. There isn’t a lot of passing and it’s a good game when they don’t steal the ball from their own teammates. Today was like REAL soccer! I must have been jumping up and down, squealing, and chasing the kids around to give high fives the whole game. SO EXCITING!
Oliver was especially entertaining all day today which always makes it a good day. He is so funny and I’m constantly kicking myself for not writing down what he says. Anybody have some tips for this I’d love to hear them! I always forget everything by the end of the day, so don’t tell me to write them down at night.
Later in the afternoon, I met this amazing family on a shoot. I’m really bummed because my camera is acting up again. Think it will be ditched at the shop tomorrow. urg. And such a bummer because I really adore the family and if all was right with the universe I would not be bummed with cruddy photos. Will definitely do a reshoot with them if they’d like, though I do have a few good ones.
They all had such a good time together and I’d love to steal all three boys on occassion to play with. I know Oliver would adore them. The oldest, especially, was such a ham — he knew where I was for EVERY SINGLE PICTURE (little stinker — so much for the candid ones!) — but really got into the shoot. By the end he even had a couple ideas for pictures and I loved that! He was also AMAZING with his little brothers (yes, twins!) who are six years younger. They don’t know how lucky they are. Or maybe they do — whole family seems to appreciate their luckiness. I could gush on about them all night…
This picture cracks me up — it looks like it should go on the cover of a travel brochure or something. I’m not sure why everything looks so fake in the background. “Welcome to NH!” It probably looks like a brochure because Connor could totally be a model — besides being such a sweet good looking boy, he was SO COOPERATIVE. “Hang upside down by your ankels and smile!” okay! AND most of the time he needed NO direction. My dream client!
I’m fascinated by twins. Love that they’re both throwing at the same time here. Sad I can’t see a face.
Why won’t my child snuggle in and smile for a photo with his mum? I think the few we have his our tongues are out. Okay, I get it. Sweet mum, sweet kid. Yes, yes, I get it.
Love the next three photos — maybe not for the composition, but for the content. This was sort of how I viewed this family — very interested in what each of the others were doing — entirely supportive, and having a good time. I kind of saw the three pictures as a collage or something. (Might actually be a better picture of Connor’s face for the monkey bars, I just liked this one because he swung so high I could see the bottom of his shoes! It was quite a leap!)
CHECK OUT THE CHEERING IN THE BACKGROUND! Seriously Julie, can I have him?
Thanks guys for a great day! Sweet Dreams!
