a picture is worth a thousand words

My favorite pictures are often not the "perfect" portraits, but the simple snapshots of moments that I want to remember. 

Ten things about this picture~

1. This isn't on our bed, but in the living room, where I had slept (dozed a little?) the night before in order to give Bryan a good nights sleep, and to better prop myself up so that the reflux afflicted baby on my chest could sleep better. 

2. Toddlers think sheets are really cool, and have a thousand different uses (we had just taken down our fort). 

3. I laid Sam down first, and Charlie ran over to lay next to him. because he loves him. 

4. Thankfully the sheet is white so you can't see the spit-up that happened only seconds earlier. 

5. If you look close, you can see that the toddler's hands are purple. He thinks it's more fun to color on himself than on paper. 

6. If you look even closer, you may be able to see that same marker on the sheets ~ from days earlier. 

7. My baby's pj's are unsnapped because he has, sniff, grown out of his newborn clothes. 

8. I was too tired to take those pj's off and put on ones that fit. 

9. My big baby is wearing his new pjs. 2T. sniff, sniff. no more baby clothes for him. 

10. I love this exhausting, often chaotic, seemingly mundane, beautiful "moment" of my life.