A Picture Post

I have a container of coins sitting on the table in our entryway. One day I noticed it was feeling a little light. I figured Drew and Owen had done something with all that spare change, but it wasn't until a few days later that I figured out what.

I went out to get the mail and when I came back I noticed Owen looking through this little hole in our window screen (see the little circle around his left eye? That's the hole) that the cat started and the boys made worse. (This is a reenactment; it's not like I take my camera with me to get the mail.)

Suddenly the idea came to me to look down. There, on the ground below the window was all the change that had gone missing, along with some headphones, a marker and a few other random items.

David had been hounding me for a while to get some pictures of the kids to send to grandparents (I've been hounding him for a while to get a family photo, but he insists that the grandparents don't want to see us, just our kids). Here are some of the results from the photo shoot:

I got this cute picture of Samantha, but I wanted to see if I could get an even better one. I guess I was being greedy and she wasn't having it. She'd rather eat wormy apples off the ground than sit and smile.*

Drew sat really well for me and even smiled when I asked him to. Though, at first it was hard to get him to smile a more natural smile rather than the crazy grin that accompanies saying "cheese." Drew had seen Owen's photo shoot and wanted to do some silly shots as well.

Owen gave me more silly shots than non-silly, but I was able to get this really good one of him just smiling nicely. I had to tuck his hair behind his ears; I need to just cut it, but don't really have the courage or patience to deal with all the screaming.

*The phrase "sit and smile" gives me the giggles. Here's why:
This was my favorite brand of toilet paper in Thailand. Not that it was incredibly soft--it was about average, but just the name of it made me smile.