I used to think I wasn’t vain.  I prided myself in being the parent of the children who excitedly wore the outfit that they had picked out themselves, despite not matching and being the wrong season.  I thought that the people who signed their children up for plastic surgery were conforming to society’s standard of beauty instead of helping their child find strength and beauty in themselves.  Sure, I love to dress up occasionally and I love to see my girls all dolled up, but I don’t think it is necessary to be beautiful.    …but I have to admit

…I was blessed with gorgeous children.

Then, when my 3rd daughter was 4 1/2 she was diagnosed with strabismus.  One of her gorgeous blue eyes started turning inward.  At first it was corrected with glasses.   Then, right before her 5th birthday, she got bi-focals.  Then we started patching.  All of the sudden, my gorgeous girl was incredibly awkward.  Not the normal awkward that comes with huge adult teeth on a child sized face that most kids experience, but a different, isolating awkward.    Her crossed eye is the first thing you see when you look at her.   It takes the attention of her beautiful face, her adorable freckles and her sweet demeanor.  At first when her glasses corrected the strabismus, the thought of putting her through surgery just for her appearance seemed to go against everything I had always held dear.  Now the choice has been made for me.  The glasses no longer help her.  In two weeks she will undergo surgery.

I hope you are enjoying the new site, but if you still want to look through the old site, here is the link.

Do you see it?

The tween years…  I remember one of the first times I heard this term…  It was one of my daughter’s older friends, so proud that she wasn’t a child anymore.  At the ripe old age of 9, she announced that she was a tween.  My first reaction to it, knowing me, was probably an eye roll.  At the time it was hard for me to see her as anything more than a child.  Since then, I have had 2 daughters transition through the tween years and I understand it much better.  It is a complex time of life.   If you look at these pictures, you might be able to see it too…

the tween years…

It is that age where they want to eat off the adult’s menu, but there is still a little part of them that wants the toy in the meal… Do they sit with and talk with the adults, or do they go play with the kids?  It can be a difficult time filled with the awkwardness of not really fitting into either category and always wondering what other people are thinking about you.

..growing up to fast.

…so much ahead of her…

There is a bit of a woman in there starting to push the little girl out of the way.  Full of promise.  Potential carries with it so much beauty!

make a wish…

Capture the moments as they transition away from the little girl you adored.  Photography is important is capture the moments like this.  If you are in the Round Rock or greater Austin area, I would love to help you with that.