It’s time for Charlotte’s first monthly portrait of 2012! I would have tried to take these earlier in the month but last week Charlotte had a terrible reaction to poison sumac that lasted all week. And the worst of it was on her face and needless to say, she wasn’t in the mood for pictures.
Yesterday I moved our couch over to make room for a new purchase (I’ll be blogging about that sometime, betcha can’t wait, haha) and as soon as the kids saw that empty expanse of hardwood they immediately started sliding…and I immediately started taking pictures.
So…here is Charlotte showing off her sliding style.
Knowing that the month was almost over I thought this was as good a time as any to capture a monthly portrait. I convinced her to sit still for a moment…in case you don’t know her, that face on the right is kind of her silly face. She’s trying to appear serious, but she’s really not, and she’s fixing to burst out laughing.
(One reason I like these is that she’s wearing her current favorite shirt and jeans. They’re nothing special, but every time they’re clean that’s what she wears. And I like the pink Converses. Little details like that are real life…she didn’t dress for the picture, that’s just her on a normal day, and I think that’ll be more memorable looking back.)
That was all she could take of sitting still. (Seriously, the rain and clouds of the previous few days had given us all serious cabin fever I think.) Suddenly, she slid to the floor and started showing me the various ways she could bend her legs.
(And if you’ll notice, there are some mismatched socks involved here. Another detail of complete normalcy around here.
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And of course, I kept snapping. I have no idea which of these I consider her January portrait, they’re really more of a series I guess. But they are capturing a small part of an afternoon here at our house and I love that!
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