When I was a little girl, my mom had a single shoebox of pictures that I use to love to go through and look at. I have 7 boxes of pictures that I chose not to put in my albums. They just didn't take many pictures back then. The earliest one I have of my mom was when she graduated high school and I only have one of my dad as a child before his graduation picture. There are a few of my McCoy grandparents that are pretty good but I'd love to have a good photo of my Cloud grandparents. There really are not very many of me as child either - lots of Nancy and Jimmy though :)
I can remember taking pictures of my own kids and just hoping I got a half way decent shot because I only had a few more frames left and I might need those shots for something else that might happen that day.
Today we have digital and I love it because you don't have to worry about using up too much film for a single shot - you can take 20 of the same moment and still have plenty left on your little card - whatever it's called.
But that also means when my kids give me over 500 pictures to choose from for my own albums - I end up with lots of pictures. In 2007 when we had 3 grandkids born - I have four albums for the one year. Before digital I could have 2 years of pictures in one album. But I still love the digital - even if I can't fit them all in my albums - I have boxes! There are some pictures that just highlight a certain personality that I want to keep even if I don't put them in my album.
For example:
What we like to call Spencer's 'Chandler' smile
Coen's innocent look
The Gracie Stare - she can outstare anyone.
Ayden's 'I'm not sure I like this' expression
And I have no idea what expressions we'll be getting from Jackson in the future
- but he even sleeps cute.
Remember all those old war movies and stories where they had a single photo of their family or 'true love' - I don't know but I'm guessing that the new technology allows our heroes to carry several family pictures on little key ring size albums. I guess it's kinda like the difference between getting a letter and a dozen emails today - I still miss letters but that's a whole different story.
3 comments:
Isn't it funny how you can picture the same expressions on them when they grow up?
That's true - especially when sometimes I see the same expressions I've seen on another member of the family when they were that age.
Awww! Good post mom! The "Chandler Smile" still gets me every time! haha!
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