My Life in Pictures

Our boy learned to use the digital camera recently. He'll occasionally snap a shot of me caught completely off guard, usually yawning or with a mouthful of food or something equally attractive.

More often, though, he photographs his true love -- his Legos. I'll download pictures off the camera (as I did this afternoon to send images of a freshly minted family to the proud mom and dad) and discover a handful of close-ups like this one. He takes these shots in theory to post them to his Lego Club Web page. In practicality, they never see the light of day. Until now.

I find myself wondering...did this happen to moms in the pre-digital era, too? Would you find yourselves standing in Walgreen's or Wolworth's or wherever it was you took your pictures to have them developed (not in one hour, but in a few days) leafing through those funky black-and-whites with the white border to discover a shot so random and unfamiliar that it had to have been kid-produced? Or am I just careless with my camera?