Good Morning!

You know those precious photos of sleeping babies and toddlers? Everything seems so perfect in them... quiet baby, serene expression, snuggled up in blankets with their eyes closed... there's a certain beauty that we can capture when our little ones are dreaming.



At some point though, when they become full-blown toddlers, we stop taking these pictures... perhaps because they are sleeping less or maybe we just don't want to wake them with the click of the camera or a blinding flash. This morning though, I peeked in on Priya as she overslept. With the sunlight in her room and her lying there holding her favorite stuffed puppy, all I could think of was grabbing the camera and capturing this moment. By the time I returned to her room and cracked the door a bit more... her eyes were squinting at me, trying to discern who was entering her space. Dang! I missed it.

Instead, I got the wrath of Priya in the early morning hours. She was not at all happy with me behind the camera lens as you can see in this photo montage. What's missing from the photos is the repeated sound of her angry voice crying "Mom, stop taking pictures!" and me saying "okay" then snapping a few more.