Children

Princess in Pearls

   

Life to me is about perspective.  I love the discovery - learning to see the same old things in my life through someone else's eyes.  This is why photographing children is so darn fun for me!  They take the normal, everyday object or activities and make an adventure of it.  All these things we take for granted, they get excited about.  I've spent all my life trying to be an adult, but not I just want to be young again and see the world the way these little kids do!

 

 

This little girl was so sweet, she wanted to get dressed up and wear the pearls (and didn't want to give them back when it was time!  But I don't blame her... they looked better on her anyway!).

 

 

 

One of the games she played (below) was "take the pearls off... then put them back on... repeat over and over again."  Sometimes it was difficult to figure out how to fit her head through, but she was determined!

 

 

And then we played on Mommy's beautiful hardwood floors!  It reminded me of a dance studio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween

  I love holidays.  My favorites are the ones that center around food - Thanksgiving and Christmas - but each has a special role.  Halloween to me is all about being a kid.  It's not so much any more about being scared (I never watch the scary movies anyway), but it's about make-believe, becoming something really really cool, and mostly, it's about candy.  Seriously, we dress up our kids as fictional characters (or sometimes real) and run door to door demanding candy.  How much better can it get?

 

I don't have kids of my own yet, so I left a Facebook post saying I'd take costume pictures of anyone who stopped by this afternoon.  And I had a few takers.

 

A knight.  (Can you see his biceps?  They're in there somewhere!)

 

 

 

A shy Cheetah.

 

 

 

I have to be honest, I'm not totally sure what this kid was dressed up as.  But he had a really cool gun.  And a great laugh.

 

 

 

An angry bird!  The funny thing is, I saw 8 or 9 angry bird this year for Halloween.  These kids don't even know who Mario and Luigi are, I guess I'm getting old :)

 

Cinderella.                                                                                                             And Yoda he is.