I will do a more "formal" post full of photographic delight on my Photography blog tomorrow, but for today I just wanted to relish in the last day of having a six year old.
Okay, actually, I wanted to blog about the tough love that has been going on in our house of late.
Having two children, one boy and one girl, we have always been able to keep things fairly even. El goes out for breakfast with dad, Connor gets snuggle time with mom (and really doesn't care about going out for breakfast) Connor does Legoland for his birthday, Elissa does American Girl.(This has just happened once! We're not those parents) But things have always been equal and the kiddos have always been happy with how things have gone. Until this week...
I'm not sure what happened. I'm not sure what changed. But something did.
So Wednesday night I was supposed to have a shoot. When we booked this shoot we had envisioned beautiful, warm setting sun that was casting lovely light on the children. Well, Wednsday happened, and there was no magical light to be found... until 7:00 when said shoot had been scheduled (but was re-booked) So I grabbed my little 6 year old and said lets do a shoot! He agreed and as we always do on our "birthday shoot" we go out for a treat after.
So we did the shoot and enjoyed the 2 minutes of filtered sun and then headed out. Well Elissa semed to think that she should be able to go as well, but Connor said he just wanted to go with me on a date. So we left Elissa in the arms of her daddy and in tears.
So, fast forward to today. Elissa is at a friends house and runs home to ask if she can go to the candy store with her friend. I say okay. Elissa returns from the candy store with a lollipop. A big lollipop. Connor bursts into tears saying it's not fair... Ahhh, really, life is just not fair. And that is okay. It's been a good week of lessons.
Anyway, here is a shot from the other night.
