I know! I know! Pick yourselves up off that floor and give me some LOVE! Two posts in as many days! Woo Hoo I am out of control! I just wanted to post some pics I took of the kids a couple of weeks ago that I haven't managed to get around to boring you with. So grab a seat and hold on, baby!
I wanted to play with my camera so late afternoon/dusk I thought I would take the boys down the back for a session. I know the white balance is wrong but I actually tried to get the blue tones because of some paper I had in mind (thinking like a scrapper here, people).
Tyler is into foraging. I wonder if I should encourage him here... I could have a future archaeologist on my hands.
Foraging... I love this kid...
More foraging...
And it looks like he might have found something... I love his back...
Please ignore the scab and band aid residue on his elbow. His mother neglects to ensure that he washes his elbows... He might smell good everywhere else but I don't think I've ever taken the time to smell his elbows. Jot that one down.
So, after this shot I turn away and take some pics of Jayden juggling his tennis balls whilst Tyler is fiddling around with my hair as he usually does. He likes to bring me wild flowers to put in my hair... Bless his wee heart! Clickity click click whir click jolly ho ho ho click whir.
Where'd the skinny one go? Oh there he is... Love that kid...
Dude... what have you got on your ear?
I gave you one too, Mum!
What??!?!? It became very colourful. So after I'd had a coronary and stopped jumping around on the spot swiping at my ears and screaming "Eww!!!!! Quick!!! Ewwwwww!!!!! Get it off me! Ewwww!!!!" I managed to get a close up.
Noice...
He has weird taste in jewellery. My earring didn't survive the experience... rest it's poor little exoskeletal heart. Oh? They don't come with hearts? Jot that one down.
So, as any mother-loved kid with grubby, week old elbows would, he had to give it a proper burial. RIP ugly, scratchy, coronary causing, cicada thingymajig.
Here's my favourite pooch. Love this dog. Ok, so he needs a clip but its still a bit too cool for him to have one...
...and as any self-respecting, amateur photographer living in semi-rural surroundings should do, I am giving you the opportunity to observe G-E-N-U-I-N-E kangaroo doo doo in it's natural state.
Go on. Don't be shy. I know you want to click to zoom in and have a good ol' gander at it!
Ever since I watched that Oprah show that quizzed America on what was healthy and what wasn't, I can't help but think "Healthy kangaroo doo doo is not 'S' shaped."
Think about it...
great pics lynette! i think the entire oprah watching audience world-wide now knows that healthy poop should plop! and be s-shaped!!!
Posted by: scrappysue | 10 August 2008 at 02:56 PM
So nice to realise that other scrappers allow their houses to be demolished around them, I thought that I might have been the only one! It is hard to find the right balance. Your son is a sweety and I would have had a heart attack if I knew there was a cicada on me too. lol
Posted by: LouiseD | 10 August 2008 at 07:59 PM
Ummm,....noooooo,.... I dont need to zoom the do do!
Posted by: louise | 11 August 2008 at 02:29 AM
oh my gosh girl, you are a riot! Totally cracking up here...and...um...YUCK on the ear(ring) bug!!!!
your little fur baby sho nuff does look like my Ozzi!!
smiles,
Posted by: Cricket | 11 August 2008 at 06:57 AM
ewww, what is that thing? We don't have THOSE in the city....but I do have kangaroo do do! Noice photo's luvey.x
Posted by: Sherryn | 11 August 2008 at 07:58 AM
Kangaroo do-do- excellent Lynette. Looks like oversized bunny turds-
Cicadas don't creep me out, but maybe as an earring I would do the freak out dance too. My kids decided they needed to bring baggies full of there skins(or do they call the shells?) home with us this weekend.
Tyler is still a cutie even with the elbow grunge going on.
Posted by: Melinda | 11 August 2008 at 09:52 AM
I would have freaked out myself with that thing. Bugs belong in the trees. Not on me where I can't see them.
I like Tyler's back too. CUTE!
How can that dog see where it's going? Can't you just clip the bangs?
You're very entertaining.
Posted by: donnapiranha | 11 August 2008 at 11:22 PM
A little boy, a puppy and bugs. Yup doesn't get any better then that! :) I must say I would not like an earing like that either. Boys are so brave when it comes to bugs.
I see you are having some fun with your new camera. Keep up the good work Kiwi. :)
I think I'm going to go buy me a macro lens soon. I have the itch! :)
Posted by: Janette | 12 August 2008 at 05:54 AM
It's times like this I'm really glad I'm not an Oprah fan. Had Sue kept her comment a little less detailed, I might still be happily clueless. Thanks a lot Sue!
When I was a kid, we used to go outside and spend the summer mornings seeing who could collect the most cicada shells. Fun stuff!!!
Lots of Cicada shells in K.C. Bringing the camera to K.C. Lynette doesn't like Cicada shells. Jot that one down. ; )
Posted by: kendra | 13 August 2008 at 01:37 AM
I'm smiling right now!
Posted by: cathy | 13 August 2008 at 06:39 AM
David Attenborough eat your heart out!!!! I have a jar of those cicada thingos in my storeroom at school and delight in bringing them our for the kids to draw!!! Jot that one down ;-)
Posted by: Petrina McDonald | 13 August 2008 at 01:59 PM
Oh, I don't mind cicada shells exactly... I just don't like being surprised by them. Actually, any creepy crawly, claw-legged critter gets a big NNNNGH!!! from me.
Posted by: Lynette van Barrelo | 13 August 2008 at 05:18 PM
Cicada shells remind me so much of my youth. We loved collecting them. Melinda let the kids pack them? Okay, I would not do that. lol
It amazes me how many people watched that Oprah show. So many people talk about it here. Weird, but true.
Great photos Lynette!
Posted by: Kristi Smith | 14 August 2008 at 12:32 AM
You alive? =)
Posted by: Janette | 22 August 2008 at 09:25 AM