took this photo for a photography challenge and decided that it really should be scrapped.....

My son has always been a climber so this was an apt choice to portray his age as he had climbed up rather high on the bars that fence off the terraced yard.

I have so many photos of his cheesy grin, but this one speaks to me more powerfully, the way his jeans always scuff the ground when he's barefoot and worn the knees more playing at kindy. His little not quite so pudgy hands showing he's on the cusp of "big boy" and losing all tiny reminders of toddlerhood.