This can be one of my favorite perspectives. We didn’t have much going on today which worked well for this view, so I grabbed a quick nap photo.

Getting ready to go to sleep with his favorite monkey, handmade by his Aunt Nicole.

I thought that this was kind of a stupid prompt, when I remembered it this morning. A casualty of writing the list in just a few free minutes on the last day of September. I had one idea for this day. I did shoot my idea, Lena holding her pumpkin from today’s trip to the pumpkin patch. I got some cute photos, but it wasn’t as interesting as it was in my head. Then, as I finished up with her, sticky fingers touched my camera’s LCD. Literal sticky fingers.

Fingers that were alternating between dipping in a milkshake and trying to poke my LCD.

I ended up coming up with a ton of other ideas for focusing on hands in the future and it’s definitely something that I will use again. I even realized how I do this more often than I realize– the photo that I shared on the Facebook page recently is an example.

Today’s theme, the everyday, the ordinary, it’s one of my favorites. We’re usually quick to pull out our cameras for the big stuff– first day of school, birthdays, vacations. But, how often do we pull it out for the totally ordinary?

Digital cameras and Instagram have made it a lot easier to capture these moments, but I want to get intentional about it. I know there will be a day when I don’t remember all of the details so well. I’m not saying I’m planning to lose my memory, but kids grow and change so fast. It seems to be impossible to capture all the details.

Today’s everyday moment: Grilled cheese. Every day for lunch he wants and gets grilled cheese. And I always take a bite out– the fee from the chef.