aren't they cuuuuute????

Let's see, I've had a request for pics of the kiddos. You have probably noticed that I do not post a lot of kid pics. One reason is that I really don't want a ton of photos of our children on the internet, but another reason is that I am a lousy photographer and rarely have the camera ready and in reach. However, one of our favorite teenagers, Hannah, took some awesome fotografias for us a few weeks ago, and we snapped some ourselves just yesterday in anticipation of our first post-placement report. So here you go. Enjoy!

These first 3 were taken by Hannah:

Now here are a few that I took. You'll see why I should leave the creative shooting to the cool kids who know what they are doing.

Fortunately, I have beautiful subjects to work with. Oh, I should probably mention that E and J went for haircuts shortly after this photo shoot, so now all of E's curls are gone. Still unbelievably adorable, and his eyes look even bigger.

Maybe I'm just seeing things that I want to see, but as I look at the pic of the three kids together, I can see physical similarities between J and the little ones. I made a point to show him because he's having a hard time with differences right now. We're in a phase of "different is bad, same is good" and he seemed to appreciate the likeness among them. Well, that's a topic for a whole 'nother post, so I won't get into it too much here.

Hope you enjoyed these mug shots of our beautiful babes. :)