Watermelon mini-session

In looking for a new photographer, I chatted with one who was doing a mini-session of kids eating watermelon.  I decided to brave the heat to see if she could handle my wild boys.  These photos were the results.  They were either eating, running, jumping, or wrestling, but I think she got some good shots.

Benny Boo:

William the Conqueror:

 Eating oranges and watermelon (the 2nd and 4th are my favorite of this series):

Running:

Watching chickens at Malcolm Blue Farm (where all the photos were taken):

Flag photos:

Pure joy and brotherly love (the 2nd and the 4th are my favorite of this set):

First movie ever and sleepovers

Quick post as our movers come today to start the process of going to our next home.  Liam's (age 5) 5th home and Ben's (age 4) 4th home.

Yesterday they saw their first movie in a theater.  Liam is very sensitive and Ben gets overwhelmed by sensory stimuli easily, so I was worried but they did great.

Buying tickets for Monsters University:

Ben LOVED movie popcorn and hogged the bag, and then ate almost all of it.

Liam gave the movie two thumbs up:

In other news, they have been obsessed with sleeping together.  They call it "having a sleepover."  They'll be sharing a room in our new home, so they might as well.

All I want is both boys looking at the camera and smiling

2 years and counting and it still hasn't happened.

In May we had professional photos taken by S. Jordan Photography and she did an amazing job being patient with my wild boys and moving around with them, but still no luck on them both looking at the camera and smiling.

This was the best one of them together:

Giving them toys/props doesn't work:

Asking them to hug doesn't work:

Most of the time, they were so quick that even the fastest shutter when pressed finds boys who were facing the camera a second ago, now look like this:

Even me trying to hold the boys doesn't work:

2 years of brothers, 2 years of baby bunching, 2 years of full hands, arms, lap, and heart

(ignore spit up on my shirt)

(one of my favorites to summarize the early months)

(4 months and 23 months for size reference)

(I just rediscoverd this photo and it makes me laugh.  Was Liam really trying to bite Ben's foot?  I don't even remember now)

(I am thinking their combined weight was about 50 pounds here.  Now their combined weight is 60 pounds and I can STILL carry them upstairs at the same time....and do it regularly)

(leaving for deployment)

(Liam wanting Ben's present at Ben's 1st birthday)

(Dave's return home; Ben crying at someone "strange" holding him)

(Liam's 3rd Birthday Party; Ben crying and Liam crying because Ben is)