Jason Morehead enjoying the outdoors with his child, who is dressed in Husker gear. Believe it.

I try to take at least one photo every day. These are some of my favorites—one per day—from the past week. (To see all the dailies from the year, check out the set on Flickr.)

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{this moment} - A Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember. If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see.

At almost eight months, Ian popped his first tooth through a couple of days ago. We’re trying an amber teething necklace. No verdict yet on whether it works, but I think it’s adorable.

I try to take at least one photo every day. These are some of my favorites—one per day—from the past week. (To see all the dailies from the year, check out the set on Flickr.)

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{this moment} - A Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember. If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see.

I’m really loving how Simon and Ian are learning about each other. They seem to be each other’s favorite people right now, which makes this mama’s heart do flipflops of joy. I’m hoping it’ll last a long, long time.

One of Simon’s love languages seems to gift giving—well, maybe not so much gift giving as piling things on. This morning I found him sharing his beloved train tracks by making a big heap of them next to/on top of his little brother.

In related news, Simon has recently learned to fit the pieces of track together to make his own configurations. I am so impressed with his new skill that I am tempted to go out and buy miles of wooden tracks. So far I’ve shown remarkable restraint, and of course he’s none the wiser.

I try to take at least one photo every day. These are some of my favorites—one per day—from the past week. (To see all the dailies from the year, check out the set on Flickr.)

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{this moment} - A Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember. If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see.

Important disclaimer: I recognize that by poking fun at my husband’s fashion sense in this post I am exposing myself as a complete ingrate. He gets one or both of the boys dressed every morning, and I love him for it. It’s just that sometimes, well . . .

This morning we were headed over to a friend’s house to run through the sprinkler, so I decided that Simon should wear his swim trunks to avoid an unnecessary change. Believe it or not, it’s not always that fun to get a two-year-old dressed. I laid out his yellow-and-blue-striped trunks for him and went to get Ian dressed (that I dressed Ian today will become important later in the story). When Simon came downstairs, I was pretty sure we had finally come to the developmental stage where he insists on picking out his own clothes (a stage that I am totally looking forward to, by the way, because I picture myself as one of those moms who doesn’t interfere and lets her young child be seen in public in ridiculous getups while it’s still so darn cute. We’ll see how that plays out when the time comes). But as I was to discover, we’re not there yet; this outfit was Daddy’s doing:

Now, in Jason’s defense, Simon really doesn’t have any shirts that would go with those shorts, and in fact I didn’t pick out a shirt for him because I was kind of at a loss myself for how to pair them. What actually cracks me up about this outfit, though, is that after he put it on, Jason decided it “worked” because of the horizontal stripes in both.

We then turned our attention to Ian’s outfit. I went out of my way to find the plaid shorts this morning because they’re my favorites. I like the mismatched patterns and deliberately put this outfit together because I think it’s totally cute.

Jason says that I have a double standard. Maybe so, but I’ll stand by it.

So what do you think? (And don’t let this influence you or anything, but Simon already took Jason’s side this morning in an unrelated light-hearted dispute, so I’m feeling a little fragile. But like I said, don’t let that sway you to my already obviously right point of view.)