Egad, I fell into the trap.
So... you know how they say you take a bunch of photos of your first kid, and their personal photo album is literally overflowing... and then you get to the second, and it's maybe got two pages?
Yeah. I sort of fell into that trap, and I kind of knew it, but I didn't realize how bad it was until just now. See, when I save photos of the boys to post online, I have a system - their first name, and then the number of the photo, so it's all chronological. (These are only the good photos that I want to share, btw. And for every good photo you see, figure there's at least 10-20 that you don't. Kids are notoriously difficult to photograph. They just keep moving.)
By the time Andrew was one, I had... oh, at least 200 of shareable photos.
Charle turns 11 months in three days. I have twenty-two photos of him worth sharing.
(And before you say, "Oh, but you have photos of both brothers together!" Yes. I do. Seventeen of them. That argument does not help.)
Imagine me hanging my head in shame.
Of course, a large part of this isn't because I wasn't taking the photos - it's that I wasn't transfering them to the computer and going through them and cleaning them up a bit before posting them online. Which is actually a huge part of the deal, and also the most time-consuming. It takes all of a second to take a photo. It takes a bit longer to go through them and select the ones I like and then do whatever needs doing to make them pretty. (I don't tend to do a lot of manipulation, but I do lighten them, but there's usually something.)
Anyway. I did go through them today - and here are three from the last month that I kind of like. Of course, one of them is just of Charlie, taken this morning, and the other two are of both boys, but hey. Pictures of adorable children are still pictures of adorable children.
Charlie helps Andrew draw a picture.
Andrew likes to push Charlie in the Big Red Car.
Today's picture, just before Charlie took off up the stairs. (He's getting very good at it now.)
