2009; Casa-de-Lainey-Paney Family Pic.

Well, they are FINALLY in!
Here are a few of our 2009 family pics that I scanned in.
Taken in December '09.
:)





This picture...this one. I feel it. It just seems to sum up how I feel about Gage, about the fun we have together, about motherhood. And maybe it's because I was there, it was us, etc.... but to me---I just feel that moment when I look at the picture, and I wish everyone else could too.


Gage can be...shy, and moody, and did I mention shy? Probably hard for most of you bloggers to believe...but those who have been around him in person know what I'm talking about. But the little boy you usually see in pictures....the laughing-so-hard-his-eyes-are-practically-closed little boy----that's the one that I get to see every day. And I get to be his mom. And sure, he may completely clam up around strangers and new situations, and....well, whatever. He's mine. I get to see the fun and love and mischeif in him every day!

My God, I'm lucky.
Because he's fabulous.

{and I don't care if anyone out there gets their nose bent out of joint about me ranting on & on & on about my kid. I love him. I don't love every single thing he does, but I love him, and his personality, and his heart, and his imagination, and this list could go on & on. I can't help it. I'm a mom.}