I am the world’s worst about taking the time to put my own personal blog posts up here.  And let’s be honest, one of the main reason’s for that is because I’ve just gotten bad at taking pictures of my own baby – who’s really more and more “little boy” every day.

I could blame the hassle: When we are playing in the backyard I just don’t want to take the time to go get the camera.  When we go to the zoo, the park, or Gymboree I don’t take it, it’s too cumbersome – just too much to handle with a wiggly, independent 2 year old. I could blame him: He’s too fast, not interested, he’d rather be the one holding the camera which leads into a full blown tantrum and who wants to photograph that? I could blame my perfectionism: too low of light, too harsh of shadows. blah, blah, blah.

But the truth is I’m cheating him. I’m cheating myself.  I spend so much time capturing moments for strangers and totally missing moments for myself. I promise to get better. I have to get better. In just a few short months there’s going to be two babies to take care of in the DeShazo home and I can’t let my “too full hands” be an excuse to miss out on capturing them grow up.

So here’s Gabe at Easter – dying his first Easter eggs. Of course this is centered more around an event but I have to start somewhere – I’ll be posting much more of our “everyday” more often.

notice the demolished Easter egg? He quickly discovered that crushing and defacing the dye-soaked Easter eggs was just as fun as dropping them in the dye. typical boy.