. . . photographing my own can be really challenging, she usually runs in the other direction when she sees the camera in my hand.  This time though, I wasn’t about to give in.  We were out for a walk and I saw the way the sun hit her hair, the flowers gripped tightly in her little fingers, and I went running for “the big camera.” (Most of the photos that I take of her these days are with a point and shoot because I can be far more sneaky with it).  She was so busy on the hunt for the perfect clover, that she didn’t notice me and I just started clicking.  It wasn’t until I downloaded the images that I saw the maturity in her face and an over-all “grownupedness” that seems to have replaced the baby that she was… just yesterday?  That pang of sadness about my girl getting big didn’t last long, because I then saw the hallmark of her (and my) childhood – the band-aid and the bruised little knees, and was quickly reassured that she’s still my little rough-and-tumble baby girl

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