May 8, 2009
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Whoever called two year olds terrible, obviously had never met a three or four year old. “Emotional whiplash” doesn’t even describe the stage with justice. One second they’re sharing yogurt with their baby sibling and doling out blueberry flavored kisses after every bite, and the next second they’re demanding a napkin and then freaking out so completely when it doesn’t magically appear, the shrieks and bellows can be heard two counties away. Consequently one moment, my heart is swelling with motherly emotion, and the next moment I want ear plugs and some duct tape. After disciplining Jamie for somewhere around the fifteenth time today he wailed at me “mommy, you’re so mean“. “No babe, if I were a mean mom, I’d make you find your own worms and eat them.”
Then again, he might think that’s fun.
It’s not just that he fluctuates between St. Valentine and Hagar the Horrible, he also has these weird quirks that just popped out of nowhere. Like the revenge of the Scary Toilet, where apparently all the toilets in the world have banded together to eat little boys when the handle is flushed. Sometimes he bravely flushes the toilet and other times he runs shrieking from the stall tryinng to climb up me as if the wold is a safer place when he’s clinging to my ribcage. In his defence some of those self flushing toilets scare me too and sound more like soul sucking machines.Today I decided to do a quick photoshoot with the kids for Mother’s day. I don’t know why I always do these things last minute. Jamie thought it would be hysterical to squeeze his eyes shut the entire time. I went from bribing to threatening, and finally I gave up and caught these.
If your name is Gio or Jeanette then these are for you….Happy Mothers Day.
Yes that is drool on Charlie’s face
Comments (14)
Wow… so cute. My favorite is the second one!
so. freaking. cute. oh, and i’m adding photos of charlie from our visit to my flickr…
I loove the last one of Jamie! So perfect. Love them all, but that one I love the processing and the pose; it’s yummy.
my photoshoots are always last minute planned. i think the candidness of the photos makes them better than those “perfectly” posed photos. wow Charlie is getting so big!!
I did a mothers day photo shoot yesterday too in a much less professional sense
cute pics! I used to be scared of the toilet flushing too. I would run down the hall and make my mom flush it. I thought the big bad wolf was going to come out of it
. How I came to the conclusion is anyones guess. And I agree, 2 year olds are much easier than 3 year olds.
That last picture of Jamie is fantastic!! It’s also neat that you captured one of Charlie mid-drool.
What darlings. I love that Jamie talks now. Perhaps you may not.
Your kiddos are so cute! I swear if I ever make it to CA I want you to do a photo shoot with me!! love your work!!
well they look like perfect little angles from your pictures
Quite adorable!
aww. It’s so great that you can get such awesome photos of your darlings
And I get ya on the toilet flushing. Alexis was pretty sure a monster would be jumping out, so she had to sit in the lid to make sure he couldn’t get her. lol
Soul sucking machine. HAHAHAHA!!
Just so you know, yours is the.only.Xanga I still read. Because it’s just so danged funny.
Happy mother’s day, beautiful friend!
My kid won’t even use a self-flushing toilet unless I’m in with him, waving my hand in front of the sensor the whole time. Surely it won’t last into his teen years, right?
thanks for sharing them.
As always, darling pictures.
Ezzie, I know I am not on Crossings much any more. But I have to say, I always look forward to your posts and I LOVE your photography!!