Sappy Mommy Moment

So lately, Sophia has discovered the fun of the digital camera.  When she is bored and can't think of anything to do she asks if she can use the camera to take pictures.  Recently it came to my attention that the card on my camera was getting quite full with all of Sophia's pictures, so today I decided to stick the card into my computer and clean it off quickly and efficiently. 

But that didn't happen quite as anticipated.  As I started to scan through the pictures I got kind of misty eyed.  I was seeing our home through the eyes of my 4 year old.  I was seeing what was important to her.  I wasn't seeing the cleaned up version that you often get when you take a picture.  I saw the messes in all their glory…the piles of flip flops by the front door and the baby board books that permanently live on the floor.  I saw her first attempts at "selfies."  I also saw pictures that the older girls had taken of things obviously important to them…things they wanted to immortalize.  I saw hairdos, a perfectly made bed, the gerbil, and a carefully made plate of cucumbers for dinner. 

I just couldn't erase all of them.  I think they give a more accurate picture of life in our home than more carefully posed pictures would give.  I ended up spending an awful lot of time just enjoying the pictures the girls had taken.  And then there were the "movies."  I still haven't watched all of them, but they are pretty silly and fun!!

Sophia's pictures are by no means works of photographic genius.  Sometimes they are blurry.  But they are endearing.  Here's one that I clearly remember being taken…David asked Sophia to take a picture of his belly!!

 

Sophia painted this picture of a rainbow.  It has been up on the fridge for weeks.  When I told Sophia that she couldn't take any pictures until I cleared off the camera she made me promise that I wouldn't delete her rainbow.