Flickr is down right now, so we’re going to see how WordPress can handle today’s photo.

In an effort to challenge myself, I have been trying to limit myself to one photo, edited minimally in Lightroom.  A photo that could be described by the word of prompt without further explanation. But, I do love playing around in photoshop.

I don’t know know a ton of people who share my eye color. When we committed to adopt Reed, we didn’t know his eye color, not that it would have mattered anyways. But, I think it’s kind of a cool surprise that our eye colors are so similar. I was playing around with the photos as he was going to bed tonight. I asked him what he thought “Weird or cool?” “Cool!” “Really?!?” “Yeah, really cool. That’s me! And that’s you!”

I made that using his lips and nose, only using my face for the left side of the image. I roughly tried to merge our features together entirely.

Using half of each of our faces gets really weird. Weirder than Doctor Who’s patchwork people.

…and I need to step away from Photoshop for the night now.

This was hard. Not because silly is a hard thing to capture with kids, but because at the end of the day, I had so many pictures to go through. But, I decided to limit myself to just one. One photo that could stand alone to reflect that word, without explanation.

Reed and Gus played this morning as we waited for Lena to finish getting ready school.  I’m not sure what Gus did, but Reed told him, “That is really uncorrect.”

Then I noticed what was actually “uncorrect”… he had Gus’s pants on, as really tight, unzippable shorts. 12m pants, on my child who wears size 6 pants. Eeep.

“Skateboarding” on a toy truck, while wearing his little brother’s pants as shorts.

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