. . .you will find us looking like this:
I love to sit in the same room while Emma is coloring. It's almost performance art, the way she dances in her chair and sings her original songs with abandon. She chooses colors quickly, rhythmically, and without regard to real-life accuracy. She sings, I listen, and Ben, from the couch or the chair next to mine, asks ponderous questions or relays the plot of the latest episode of some cartoon he watched that morning. He's not so much into coloring, but he LOVES to talk. Conversation is his art-form, and he is practicing and honing his craft every hour of every day. Between him and Olivia, every moment is filled with language, interaction, words. He makes observations and asks pertinent questions–as Heidi has said, if Emma is an artist, Ben is a scientist.
He LOVES to use my cameras, too. He's getting pretty good at it, although I can't seem to break through to him with the idea of composition. He just points and clicks and clicks and clicks. Thus, the following, unflatteringly-angled shot was created:
Long-nosed, but at least my eyes look pretty.
Oh, and this is funny. Emma is trying to see the shutter open and close as I take her picture. The expression is priceless.
Loved this post! I’ve seen those expressions on all of those faces- and I love them so very much! The artist, the scientist and the photographer.
this last emma face is quite the face! love the questioning “HUH?”
Oh Allyson, your posts always brighten my day. I miss you all even more with every word I read. I am so thankful that you are apart of our lives. hankful for your posts because without them my family would be lost to me in all the small ways that really matter.