I updated Marissa and Melayna's pictures on the wall a couple of weeks ago. One night while we were finishing dinner together, Nolan looked up and noticed the changes. He mentioned that he wanted to take new pictures as well since he was now a year older. (I really liked last year's picture and wasn't sure he would sit still and cooperate so I hadn't bothered requesting a new one).
I said, "Okay. We can do that sometime, when do you want to take them."
He said "right now" and jumped immediately down from the dinner table and ran downstairs to change his shirt. He came upstairs wearing this Old Navy sweatshirt and he mentioned that he had also combed his hair. Noel laughed and said that he and the kids would clean up the dinner dishes because I better go outside before Nolan changed his mind.
Once we got outside, Nolan mentioned that he wanted to have a couple taken of him on the trampoline and then we just took it from there. After a couple of pictures, he would run off to a new location - all of them involving the trampoline or playscape. 'Not necessarily my idea but giving him control must have worked. He sat still and smiled (sort of) and I got some really fun ones to choose from.
The first two pictures are the same pose. I just left one as it looked coming off the camera and the second one, I edited it with a fall finish so the colors are a bit richer.
I did the same edit with these next two.
After I loaded them all on the computer and let Nolan look at them, he told me that he wanted to pick his favorite for the 8x10 to hang on our wall. Boy was I surprised when he showed me his favorite!! So, here is the photo that will grace our dining room wall for at least the next year!! But really, should I expect anything less from this guy??
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