My oldest boy is going to be four on Saturday!

He is getting to that lovely age where nap time is no longer an everyday occurrence. As a stay at home mom I have counted on nap time to have time to reflect on the sweetness of my children and recover from whatever they did pre-nap.  So to make sure I still have some alone time(they call them breaks in the workforce), I started the quiet time rule. I read about it in a homeschooling book(which I plan to do this year). I read about a mom that had all her children go to their rooms and play quietly every afternoon for a little bit and then I realized I could do THAT!!!

His little brother(2yrs old) still takes naps so I have him lay down in the library for half an hour or so…that is at least how it is supposed to go. I think he knows I am a pushover, he will call my name until I go in there. When I ask him what he wants he says, ” I have something really important to ask you. Can I get up?”

When I finally do let him come out ,his brother is still usually sleeping. Have you ever tried to keep a almost four year old quiet before? If anything they get louder.

Yesterday, I decided to take some pictures on my nice beautiful enclosed porch that my awesome, wonderful, greatest man in the whole world made for me!

I had a crazy idea that was probably born out of “no more nap time” desperation…

I let him use one of my Nikon’s I love those little fingers on the buttons!

Look how happy he is!

I was a little nervous about the HARD tile floor

But I was happy that he let me take lots of pictures of him! That NEVER happens.

The lens I let him use is an old manual one that was Nick’s Grandfather’s, he gave it to me last Christmas to use and I love it!

The focus is manual also though so Justin had his work cut out for him(what does that saying even mean?)

Here is one(he took over a hundred) of his shots, I kept tweaking the focus hoping one of them would not be a blur.

He keeps saying that he wants to be a diver when he grows up so I asked him if he wanted to be an underwater photographer instead.

You have to start brainwashing…I mean guiding them young.