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Sometimes there are moments hanging out here at the house when I get a whim to grab my camera and sit behind it for a bit.  These whims are usually triggered by an inclination that something cute is about to happen, or sometimes just because I’m feeling restless and usually my restless feelings lead to a desire to create something (and on rare occasions a desire to clean something).

Today it was triggered when we heard baby’s cries from the monitor alerting us that she had woken from her nap.  “I’ll get baby!”, big brother exclaimed as he rushed down the hall towards her room.  His desire to greet little sister at nap time awakening has become more and more rare lately, as she continues to bloom from a sweet and harmless baby into a curious and annoying kid sister.  When these little moments do happen, they are so, so sweet.  They usually involve brother sneaking in quietly with a whispered “hi baby” and then he climbs into bed with her and piles every stuffed animal she has around her with sweet and gentle “see baby, here ya go.  here are all your babies so you can hug em.”  Definitely one of their sibling moments that make my mama heart ache with love, but I have yet to capture it in its natural state due to the usual low light in the room during nap time.  Every time I’ve attempted to catch them in their sweet moment, I sneak over quietly to shift open the blinds and as soon as the light pours in, Sis sees me and becomes completely distracted.

I guess I figure if I keep trying, I may eventually capture a sweet little moment of this exchange but today, like usual, no luck.  Funny thing is, my son and always there assistant for anything I may need, remembered my habit of letting in the light for photos and after piling every “baby” he could find on top of sis, beat me to the blinds.

He turned the shutter open, heaved the heavy blind up, plopped down in the flowery chair next to the window and said, “Mama, take my picture.”

Shocked (being nice to his sister and asking to be photographed?  he was in an exceptionally good mood…), I sat on the floor in front of him and obeyed.

swear he did that “pose”all by himself

Of course sister became interested immediately, but it was just as well because my first model was finished after a mere five clicks anyways.

Next!  The only instruction I offered her the entire time was to go sit in her chair…

thinkin bout it…

on the other hand, better accessorize first.  rosary or pearls?

My little diva would let me take photos of her all day long.  Love.

I love little unplanned mini-shoots like this.  Most of my favorite photos ever have come from moments like these.

And even though I didn’t catch the brother-sister sweetness, I did manage to grab a little of this sleepy window-gazing sweetness before the photo shoot began.

++++

It was really cold here today.  The past two days have been barely cold enough for snow (spotted a few flurries even), but snow just won’t come.

These past two days (and nights) have also found Daddy training and sleeping out in the field with his soldiers.  Poor soldiers.  And also (just a tiny bit) poor me, I miss my hubby, if only for two nights.  My hearts aches knowing he is out in the cold, sleeping on the ground…

I either want it to snow or get warmer.

Anyone out there enjoying their winter weather?