When my husband and I first started dating nearly 12 years ago, the only thing that was different in our hearts was that I knew I wanted children and he did not. I worked in a daycare during college and I almost always had someone else's child with me. I babysat a lot and sometimes I just had kids tagging along. If you wanted me, kids were a given. After overcoming his initial fear of little kids, he quickly came around. Our dates were often going to babysit and after not too long, he decided it would be OK to one day have children.
Shortly after our first anniversary (I know, we were still babies ourselves), we decided to start trying for children of our own. When J came along just a couple weeks after our second wedding anniversary, I remember watching Allen change a baby diaper for the first time. Ever. But that's a story for another time.
So for the theme of "now and then", I immediately knew that I wanted to capture A with our boys. He once thought he never wanted children. He was scared of them. Now, he would rather be with them than do anything else on earth. He still remembers how to play despite being a 30-something professional, he loves to show them the world and give them new experiences, and he is a great teacher to our boys. On this particular day he was just "being". Some cuddling, some play.
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