Someone saw Santa last night....A 2nd attempt. We went the first time and the line was a mile long, Mom was cranky and the kids were in clothes came straight from daycare. Roman with a hole in his pants. "Roman!"

When we went the next time Roman refused to go, but Zoe talked me into sitting in on a picture. Note the hole in the knee. "Mom!"

Waiting in line was well worth getting this shot though. 

After I told Santa I wanted a pouting shot he commented "Oh, I like those".

Roman should have come with!

Cue the pomp and circumstance

Lucky Momma!

You're getting too big or "my babies!"

 Almost 5, but who's counting?

Next time, you write your own names!

"Mommy, put lipstick on me"

Ok, Zo.

Speculation

 


In the last month Roman keeps telling me "When I get big I'm going to live close to you and Dad."
I asked him why and he gave the right answer. Because he loves us and wants to visit us all the time. I'll put that one in the back pocket for the times when I don't get that impression from him!

After hearing this Zoe chimed in that she's going to live next to Roman.

We've had many iterations of speculative future. At one point Roman was going to have a bunch of kids and bring them over to Zoe's house so she could watch them. Maybe we need to start interviewing them again and see what's in the stars.

And then...

....they were 4.75, the age of buying a Groupon and bringing them in for 'real' photos.

Don't know why i waited so long to go back.

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Crazy - just - keep - my - head - above - water - era?

Yes.

New lesson: if you're the parent of a small child, bite the bullet and get pictures taken. You can't get this time back.

More photos to follow.

Beautiful girl

You know sometimes when you take hundreds of shots, you get this one. No cropping, no fixing...just Zo. My girl!