Summer playing~

So in keeping with the summer posts theme this week {three in one week...I'm on fire!}, I've got some summer playing to show you fine folks. I had had my camera out all morning because VBS started yesterday and I was asked to take a million pictures during the week and then put together a slide show for the Friday night family time at church.

We came home, had lunch {Yes, I fed my children Taco Bell yesterday...I'm a terrible VBS mama}, and after Jase left to go back to church...Joel asked me to come into his bedroom.

"You take my pic-tuh, mama?"

"Sure, buddy. What do you want to do?"

"I pay my toys. You take my pic-tuh."

Good enough. I happen to love pic-tuhs like this...in the moment. Real life. Sure, we all have to pose once in a while and smile for the camera. But I much prefer this stuff. Don't you? I mean, how can you not? The boy shoots his monkey {the one we stuffed at Build A Bear and sent to Thailand a year before we met him...the one he sleeps with and loves...yeah that one} into his Little Tikes basketball goal. If that ain't pic-tuh worthy, I'm not sure what is!

How I am enamoured with this little spitfire. This Thai tornado has and continues to invade our lives with toys and volume and laughter and love. I think it's safe to say that I would take his pic-tuh anytime, anyplace. For now, it's summer, and we're playing.