May 30, 2010
Life is Better in Shades
We went to Bellevue Square the other day and stopped by Gap to pick up some new clothes for Porter and Fallon (oh, and for me). Porter found a new cap and a pair of sunglasses that he really liked (when the sun does shine in the PNW it's too bright for him).
It was great to see how excited he was about them - insisting on wearing them the rest of the day. I could tell that he felt really cool in them and that they allowed him to be a bit more extroverted than usual - which was really nice to see too, given my own tendency to be introverted.
He wore them while playing in the playground across the street from our house and all of the girls in the neighborhood told him how cool and handsome he looked in them. Toni said he was beaming with confidence.
I shot this photo of him in our house later that afternoon. He had been dancing around in the living room with Fallon to something on the TV. At one point he went right up close to the TV and looked over at me. I managed to snap the picture and unintentionally captured the reflection of whatever it was on TV in his shades - kind of a neat result.
Porter and Fallon are fairly introverted, but I'm hoping that they'll outgrow it to some degree as they grow older. I know how difficult it was for me, particularly in my teens, being so introverted; and it is something I regret not being able to escape until so much later in life, now that I'm able to look back from a distance.
They have a couple performances coming up this summer: one for their yearly school play and another for a recital from the dance classes that they've been taking. Though they do fine in practice, they both (Fallon especially) are very hesitant to go on stage. Hopefully all of the practice will help and they'll won't be as self-conscious.
...the things we worry about and hope for as parents...