"...Worth a Thousand Words"... Now really?

Even though we just hung out at home for most of today, for some reason I had the camera handy quite a bit.  Nothing too exciting, or rather, just a few of our usual moments.  As I am now uploading these to the blog and reviewing our day, I can't help but see what is not reflected in these pictures.  As much as I'd like a snapshot to prettily sum these moments up and seal them up for a day when I will miss these days,  I realize that that is not entirely possible.  So I am reminded to especially cherish the moments that photos can't capture.  These pictures don't tell the story of me tying Rylee's hair back thirteen times because the girl is all over the place and so goes her hair...ALL OVER THE PLACE!  And although Rylee is wearing jackets in all of her pictures, there is not a picture that expounds on her perfect coordination in developing this new fetish of always wanting to wear a jacket to the hundred degree weather we've been randomly experiencing.  Her recent development in fashion is my recently developed dilemma...screaming child with a jacket OFF, verses a sweating child...a dilemma that fills my every hour yet these pictures speak nothing of it.  And when I look at the picture of Russell on his bed,  (which these days is now a castle and Rylee and I are the princesses and he is our knight that rescues us from all sorts of imaginary danger) I miss hearing his voice as he points to Australia and finishes off reciting all seven continents.  And the picture of the city (yes, that's a city) doesn't show the great care that Russell took as he placed each Lincoln Log and Lego and train track and Trio in a way that made perfect sense in his mind.  And this picture most certainly does not express the feelings I had this evening once the kids were both in bed and I was cleaning up for the night.  I collapsed his masterpiece and found myself so sad to have to do it.  And Woody, and Rylee with Woody...this picture was taken as I was sneaking down the stairs between laundry because things were just a bit too quiet for my liking.  I loved what I saw.  Not the usual when things are too quiet around here.  And as for the peach cobbler we made today, I don't so much love what I see now.   It tasted so, SO much better than it looks!  Let me tell ya...and so I do...'cause a picture is just so NOT worth a thousand words, or even 441.   :)   (thank you, word count!)