Zeke, age 8

This is Zeke. Short for Ezekiel.  He is such a special little guy.  Just look at this face!  He has such a bright, bright mind.  And I’m so lucky to be his aunt!  Since he just turned 8 years old he has reached the age of being able to be baptized (as any Mormon kid will tell you).  So before his baptism, while everyone else was getting ready, Zeke and I went in the back yard and snapped a few pictures.  In general, I like kids to look like kids. Which at any moment other than a Sunday morning or a special occasion, such as this, Zeke portrays the epitome of childhood.  Trust me.  But I gotta say…I LOVE a kid in a suit.  Really at any age.  Guys just look good in suits.  Take my son for example.  He’s three and he rocks a suit!  I’ll have to share proof of that later.  But for now, more of Zeke, age 8, looking like a little man.  So cute.

This black and white of Zeke reminds me of a picture of my dad when he was 19, rockin’ a suit, same exact expression.

And below, every kids has or wishes they had one of their parent’s cast offs such as this:

Zeke, thanks so much for letting me share this special day with you!  I’m proud of you and I love you!

love, aunt drea

P.S.  This is random.  And I don’t know why I’m so chatty tonight.  I just realized something.  My brother has black hair.  That is so weird to me because I always think of him as having brown hair.  I’m not sure when it got so dark.  Probably years ago.  You know what else is weird.  I have black hair, too.  I’ve been insisting that it’s brown for years.  People just humor me and smirk when I insist that I have brown hair.  Maybe if I think of my hair as raven like Diana Barry in Anne of Green Gables or Sara Crewe in The Little Princess, then it would seem more appealing and I would feel much better about myself.  If you know of any other heroine’s or their side kicks who have raven black hair, by all means speak up!