A Peek at our Lives: The concentrated look

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The concentrated look

I wish I could have my camera on me at all times, because I would love to catch more of my children's expressions. Of course, Simeon is at an age when he sees the camera and smiles a huge smile in anticipation of grabbing it, chewing on it, and mashing all its buttons. I've never let him do that, but his face lights up every time with the expectation that this will be the time that I'll see how excited he is and just hand the camera over for his scrutiny. It's hard to break it to him that he probably won't see that day for many years. In the meantime, I get lots of great smiley pictures of him, which is lovely. I would like to capture, though, the look he gets when he's trying to figure something out. Or his little "o" face. So far, no dice. Perhaps he's waiting until I tell him, "Look, you let me get those expressions and I'll let you have the camera for 5 minutes." I mean, a kid can do a lot in 5 minutes.

Naomi is also a bit of a ham for the camera, although her smile for the camera tends to be a bit more...studied...or something. The other day, though, I let her loose with some new markers on the marker board, and she didn't notice as I began snapping away. (If you'd like to get really up close and personal with these photos, you can click on them and they'll get nice and big.)

I started a safe distance away, because I didn't want to tip her off and lose the concentrated look.

I got a little closer...can you see the slight pout with the lip? I love it! That's a signature part of the concentrated look for her.

She's so very into the markers. She was drawing a monster. Or fish? I can't remember. It's a bit tricky, too, because these days she draws lots of things. I have to ask her what it is, because to me they all look like little people. She does a great job with smiley faces and everything...but sometimes they're fish. Or monsters. But, looking at the photo, this looks more like it's just some swirls.