Tag: photography

17 years, 8 months

A week from today is their first day of senior year.

(I’ll save any thoughts I have on that for next week’s post.)

17 and a half

Don’t forget to take the monthly pic before we leave for the airport, I told myself. Okay, I forgot. Don’t forget to take the picture before we drop the boys off at my sister’s. Okay, forgot again. Thanks to Aunt Jenny for getting a pic of the boys before the day was out!

We had a busy week in Virginia between my niece’s graduation, four college visits, and an MLS game, but it was a lot of fun!

(To answer your questions, no, they don’t want to go to the same school and they want to study Sport Management or similar.)

17+1

My birthday celebrations started this weekend, so I’m a little late posting, even though I took it on the right day!

16 years, 11 months

Gah! 17 in a month? 17 sounds so old! Blah.

And I’ll be on a work trip for their birthday, which makes me sad. Oh well.

16 + 10

It was a gross, rainy, gray day on the 4th so the picture quality isn’t the best, but here it is!

Miles got a haircut the next day, and now I keep calling him Oliver. Oops.

201

At least this month it’s on time!

Miles does have eyes, I’m pretty sure.

Number 200!

I have to thank my children, sincerely, for putting up with me. The 100th picture wasn’t so bad; eight year olds are a lot more tolerant than 16 year olds, and rightly so. But they did it, they took the picture with little complaining, only calling it “corny” seven hundred and sixty two times. Fair enough.

Yes, thanks to American Airlines, this photo is three days late. I wonder if I can get compensation for this?

Now, just for fun, the 100th. I think I’m most proud that they all have fairly clean socks on this time.

Since I’m on sabbatical now, I have plenty of time to make a montage of all 200 pics so far. Sorry boys!

16 + 2 + 1

Okay, so 2024 isn’t getting off to a rousing start re: timeliness of the monthly pictures. This one is entirely my fault. It was a gorgeous day, we were home all day, I have no excuse. I just forgot until it was already dark outside. George took a couple with his phone (it does better night photography) but I didn’t like them enough to use as the “official” picture. But you can see them below.

So yeah. One day late. Again.

I also haven’t had a chance to do my 2023 recap, but maybe I don’t really need to since I did monthly recaps? Maybe I’ll give myself a break on that.

Here are the two rejected pictures. (While I was impressed at how well the blur hides (much of) the disaster of the background in the inside pic, you can tell I haven’t yet removed the birthday banner. So. I should do that.)

16 years + 1 month + 1 day

It kills me to put that +1 day there, but there was no point during daylight when all three boys were at home and awake so I let them talk me into doing it today rather than inside, last night, when they were all exhausted from their soccer game. But at least it was a conscious decision and not an “oops I forgot.”

On the bright side, I made them promise to smile if we put it off until this morning, and they kept their word.

(Poor Miles is home sick today.)