First of many, I am sure.

We went to Paradise Park today with some friends, and had a wonderful time! But, something happened during our visit, that made me not look forward to the later years with our boys, especially with Owen, who is incredibly sensitive.

Owen was playing in the water room with his friend Avree, and I was feeding wade his lunch at a nearby table. A mom that was with our group was in the water room, and she heard another mom go "EWW! He is drinking the water!!" She was referring to Owen, who, clever little man, was using the measuring cups to get water from the water table and drink from. Obviously, that is pretty gross, but obviously a 3-year-old boy doesn't see the problem, lol! But Owen heard what the mom had said ("EWWW!") and knew that she was talking about him. He then put the toys down, and didn't play anymore. He gets embarrassed and heart-hurt so easily, it breaks my heart. I know that there will be many more times in his life where he gets embarrassed and withdraws, and I know that I can't do much more about it than to encourage him to be his amazing self. I hate thinking about how he must have been feeling when he heard the other lady say "ewwww!" at him. I wish my babies would never have to know what that feels like. I wish I could have been there today, to say "O, no big deal! If you are thirsty, let's go get a drink!" With him, quickly diffusing the situation is key to preventing him from feeling bad. I feel bad I wasn't able to do that today.

Sweet moment with my sweet boys

I realize that I have yet to post pics from O's 3rd birthday, and write his annual letter to him. Guess that means I am out of the Mother of the Year race. RATS! I do need to do that, like, soon, obvi, before I forget all of the fun that occurred at his party.

We went to Lowe's yesterday, to buy some wind stakes for O's trampoline. The boys were riding in one of the racecar carts, and this lady that works at Lowe's came up and started chatting with my boys, which, who can blame her seeing as how my boys are so sweet and charming, who could resist them?? After she asked Owen the standard questions "what is your name? how old are you? are you a good boy? is this your little brother...?" to which Owen politely and sweetly answered, she moved onto Wade. Wade loooooves to play the "me so shy and coy!" game when people are talking to him, usually he will smile at the person, and bury his head in my chest. Well, since I wasn't holding him, he instead snuggled right into Owen, laid his head on O's shoulder, and hugged O's arm, while smiling sweetly at the lady. I.About.Died. from the cuteness. Owen then spoke up for his brother and said, "It's okay, he is just shy!" Awwww!

In other news, both boys are still amazing. Owen is smart as a whip, and starts tball here shortly. He is so dang excited. He is going to be on a team with Hudson and Gavin, which makes this even better! Wade is doing great! He is almost 11 months now, and not crawling! But before you start "oh my gosh! wade isn't crawling yet! can you believe it? that is crazy! something is wrong!"...I asked their pediatrician a few weeks ago about it, and his reply was "Be glad! Less chance for him to hurt himself!" Apparently crawling isn't even a milestone since so many kids just don't do it. He has the strength to do it, because he will hang out in the crawling position, but he just doesn't seem to care! Oh well! No skin off of my nose. ;)

Camera Gear

After my last post, I got a few emails asking what equipment I have...so, here it is!

Camera Bodies:
Canon 5D
Canon 30D (back-up)

Lenses:
50 mm 1.4
85 mm 1.8
24-70 2.8L

This year, I am planning on selling my 30D, and getting the new 5D Mark III when it is released, then my 5D classic will become my backup. I also hope to add the 70-200 2.8L IS lens to my "gear" this year. Exciting stuff! At least it is to me, lol.