Today’s assignment was to capture the difference in time over when you met the person and now. She also recommended going in for a really close photo and crop out the background. I listened for one of the shots.

I need to watch how often I’m taking pictures of her in a bib, but really she spends a lot of time eating each day, and it’s one of the few time she stays still long enough to take a photo. Still I should just pull it off when I’m snapping. Josie really liked looking at photos of herself as a little baby, although she often misidentifies them as Celia.

Every morning, our old house with our old windows has condensation on the inside. Ezzy and others look forward to it each day and she licks it off in a new pattern.

After the storm on Wednesday, the snow pile is now above the bottom of the window. It’s very sad we have a snowthrower that needs a tune up in the garage.

This is supposed to capture just how they look, good, bad or whatever.

This is how I feel I spent a lot of my day, looking at the back of Josie’s head while she’s running off to do something and oh yeah Celia’s there too.

In an effort to get myself to pick up the camera some more and play with it with the girls I joined a project called Joy of Love. It’s basically a bit of photography class combined with a bit of inspiration for what to guide your photos. You’re supposed to focus on something you love, and you can shift each day, but I’m mostly going to focus on Josie. Things have been challenging for all of us with this 2.75 year old and so I want to highlight some positives and make sure to take time for some attention on her, and maybe even make her comfortable enough not to look away from the camera.

Day 1: What they do

So perhaps the rules are one photo picked per day, but this isn’t school, who needs rules.

This is Josie playing with some toys on the couch. It’s a little overexposed unfortunately but I think it just shows her gorgeous hair and pink lips.

Josie really likes to play with lots of little things lately, putting them in bags, lining them up, stacking them, carrying them around and distributing them. Here she lines up the numbers from her clock plus some lacing animals and a coin from her cash register for Mio. The light these days is super super harsh inside because of all the snow so I had to play with the exposure a bunch of times just to get the shapes to remotely show up. This scene ended with Mio swatting at Josie when she tried to move a piece that was near him, her crying briefly and him running away. Oh well.