Guybrarian Sam

Friday was community helper day for the Kindergartener's at Sam's school.  He chose to go as a librarian, or as our friend and favorite librarian Ms. Ellis called him, a "guybrarian".  He dressed up in his shirt and tie, grabbed some books from his library basket and borrowed the wayfarers we bought Daddy for his MadMen party last spring.  I added a notecard with some call numbers on it in one pocket and pencils in the other to complete the look.

He also had to create a poster that showed what a librarian does, so we came up with some questions and did a phone interview with Ms. Ellis to help him come up with ideas of what to draw.  He presented his poster in class and his teacher sent me a picture.  We think he makes one cooool guybrarian!

Click, Take 2

This is one of the images from the series I took of Sam for our photography exercise.  I like this one a lot, even though we can't see his face.  I took another one of Sam playing with this Brownie at a playdate almost four years ago.   He's not using it right either time, but gosh, it's cute!

{2015}

{2011}

Take Five (or so) with Sam

Sam and I participated in a creativity exercise for our photography playgroup yesterday.  The original plan was to shoot for 90 seconds to capture some of the expressions and little details that make Sam...Sam!  When the time was up, we would put the camera down and be done before he got bored or annoyed.

We ended up shooting for at least ten minutes.  Whoops!  It took us both a while to get into a groove.  I realized fairly quickly that the best way to get natural expressions from him was to get him talking.  He's such an animated storyteller, as many of us already know.

We talked first about Andrew and Kelly getting married next fall (and "the kiss"!) then Evie and school and some other stuff.  He asked me where wind comes from, how it's "made", and shared his theory that tornadoes blow through Denton and push the air to Providence.  I had to put the camera down at that point and clear up a few things; can't shoot and talk science at the same time!

I look at each of these thirty-two images and think, "That's such a Sam face!" and "Oh, that's such a Sam face!", and yet they're all so different.  I don't know how many people, strangers included, pointed out how expressive Sam was as a newborn, but it was a lot.  Looks like not much has changed.   Now we've added marker-ink on the hands, shaggy hair that needs a cut, chapped lips and an amazing vocabulary to those expressions.

And we love each and every one of these Sams.

Naptime

I've posted a lot of sleeping photos of Evie lately...I'm afraid that's the only way to capture our little blonde blur right now.  She's always on the move!

I'm guessing Brian won't be thrilled I posted pictures of him sleeping, but I just couldn't resist.  Evie was so comfy snuggled next to her daddy.  Brian on the other hand, not so cozy.  It's hard to be 6'3" and be comfortable on a small couch with a two-year-old couch-hog 

and

her blankie

and

 her dolly, but he did his best to rest with her for a good long while.  Such a good daddy.