4/52

The children's museum is the perfect place to meet some friends on a rainy day. You two were squealing while playing with this fan/tube contraption. So much fun!

A minute to win it night at your school. Oh the concentration!

3/52

If you're gonna play with blocks, you better spread them all across the living room floor. (Also, look! Daddy took you to get your hair cut while I was gone last week. It looks pretty cute and the best part is you actually let us brush it on occasion now! Now more giant tangles!)

Hot Chocolate is always better with a straw. And a silly face.

2/52

The Uncle David rodeo won out for this week's photo. I am so grateful for the memories you with both grow up with filled with amazing family members and cousins and uncles and fun and love.

1/52

Snow day. Oh boy. You wanted so badly to go outside and play in it like your brother, but when I pulled out the snow pants you pulled out your grumpy face and getting you to wear them + your booths + gloves took all my negotiating tactics. All bundled up you unhappily marched outside. You held back as Logan and I made snowballs out of the very icey snow. You finally forgot your grudge long enough to join us for maybe a total of 6 minutes before throwing your gloves off and saying you were cold and wanted to go inside. Sigh... But hey. I got this cute picture of you throwing a snowball at the van. Your brother was cracking up since it most definitely went behind you instead of towards the van at all.

Our new Christmas kitty. You love him. And for the most part he seems to love you, or at least tolerates all the playing and tugging and tucking that you do with him. When I asked you to practice your piano you didn't want to be separated so you tucked him into your shirt and he actually stayed there while you practiced. If only we could get him to play with you, then we'd have an internet sensation!

2015

Well, I didn't take photos of my children every single day this year. In fact I took only a few of them the entire year. After my giant 365 project last year, I needed a break. They needed a break. They were getting tired of the big camera in their faces all the time. And that was fine. I had more photos of them than I really could do anything with. I did do something with all of them though, I had two giant books printed and I love them and pull them out to flip through pretty regularly.

I also occasionally will come back to this blog and look at the post from the same day the year before which is fun. I'm so very glad I did this project.

Now as 2016 is nearing I've been thinking about starting this project up again, although slightly different. I'm going to try to do 52 posts in 2016. One per week with either one picture of both or one of each. I loved the challenge last time so I'm looking forward to documenting a bit of our life these days, how my kids are different and older and still completely wild, precious and even a lil mundane.

For now, Here are a few of the shots I did take of my kids this year.

That's a wrap.

My 365 project is officially finished. Granted it was actually only 346 days, but hey, most of the 19 days that I missed were days I wasn't actually with my kids at all. So I think I'm calling it a success.

 It was an ambitious project really, bigger than I knew going into it. I wanted a challenge and that it was.

I was challenged on days when I just felt like I'd done photographed every possible thing that my kids do. And I would have to tell myself to look harder, find something new, find another angle on something, look again, tell a different story.

I was challenged to slow down on days when I was running around getting things done and I would hear them in the other room laughing. Stop. Get the camera. Watch them. Hear them. Enjoy them.

I was challenged on so many days to get up and do something with them, take them somewhere, get out of the house, get wild inside the house, be fun, pull over when you see something cool, be spontaneous, go on adventures.

I was challenged to remember. To not just take the picture of something I adore, but write down and describe what I adore and why. To save the silly things that were said, the little victories that were had. To celebrate the small, simply things.

And mostly I was challenged to be grateful. As I counted each day, as I pushed the shutter each time, I was counting my blessings. Counting the days and moments and saying Thank You, Thank You, Thank You as I looked through each days photos. Each frame framing the gifts, demanding gratitude to flow.

I am so glad I did this project. I'm so glad we have this year documented and capsulized forever. I'm so glad I am these two brilliant children's mother. I'm so glad I have this wild, precious and sometimes mundane life.

To see all the photos in one place visit: www.tekoarosephoto.com/wildpreciousandmundane

Below is a 6 minute video of all the daily photos. They zip by pretty quick, if you'd like to see them in a slower, longer (35 minutes!) version, click here.

December Runner Ups

Wow. 12 months. That went fast. December was a whirl of holidays and birthdays and parties and crafts and cookies and rain and cold and winter and well, it was December. Here are my runner ups from this month. Enjoy!