Together

I love the top picture of Natalie and Owen playing together at the park. It is hard to get a shot of him without the "cheese" face, for one thing. And I just love the look that Natalie is giving him. I think it looks very tender. In reality, she is probably just realizing that he is going to push past her and go down the steps in front of her and she is calculating how much effort it will take to knock him down. But I'm deciding that I will remember it as a tender, protective look during a moment of exploring together.

The next shot is of the two of them watching a teenage couple fly a kite. Both kids were very interested. Then the last picture shows Owen flying the kite. He has a way of getting in the middle of everything somehow. The teenage boy was actually very nice and asked both of the kids if they wanted to fly it. Natalie turned away and wouldn't look at him, of course (not that I mind this behavior around teenage boys, really...) and You Know Who ran up and grabbed the handle from the boy and went to town. Yes, I had to more or less wrestle it back out of his hand later. He was ready to fly that kite home.