I created this space for my children.
To preserves the memories of their childhood and give them something to look back on.
Today’s post is just that.
I saw this idea of capturing the many faces of childhood on Pinterest and fell in love with it.
I had the kids show me all of their different moods and took pictures of their cute little faces. I then used PicMonkey to put the photos into a collage, adding in the words.
I promise it’s super easy and you can do it with the free features on PicMonkey.
I imagined them looking back at this post and rolling their eyes, unable to believe they were once this silly and willing to do just about anything in front of a camera.
It’s nice to freeze time once in a while.
I hope they come back here someday and appreciate the memories captured for what they are…
the many faces of my love for each of them.
Check out our photo collage for the following year here.
What moment(s) of the present would you like to capture? Do it today!
Yes the teen is absent from these photos. I could not capture her “Mom are you insane? face” fast enough when I asked her to participate.
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I like the concept and the idea. You capture the perfect angle of your kids. And i love all the photos that you’ve shared with us here. Thanks for the post!
LOVE this! Your children are so adorable… and they could totally have careers on the stage 🙂
What a great idea! It is one of those things it’d be easy to “do tomorrow”. Appreciate the advice, and the motivation, to do it now… bet you’re glad you did 🙂
This is so cool! What a great idea.
Lovely! Your kids are so adorable. Can’t take my eyes watching their photos. Your little girl is such a pretty little lady. I love their facial expressions! Cute!
Aw, super sute kids, Jessica! How could you make them do those faces? What was the treat?
Aw, super sute kids, Jessica! How could you make them do those faces?
Perhaps what you’ll hear about them is, “Mom, take down those pictures. They’re so embarrassing”!
I love those photos. The kids look so cute.
P.S. I have been voting for you over at Circle of Moms 🙂
I love this idea! What great, fun, expressive faces and kudos on the perfect lighting too.
I will attempt with Lucas… stay tuned.
Love this idea!! Such cuties .. I’m impressed you got 3 out of 4!
Cheers to you and your glass of wine tonight *clink*
this was such a gorgeous post, such beautiful, silly wonderful faces. I wish my kiddos would let me me take MORE pictures of them, but the ones I get, I treasure because they are REAL!
thank you for once again giving me a lot to think about and the urge to go and hug my kiddos.
your children are so beautiful.
Such cute pictures! I ran across you on a MI mom’s blog 🙂 At least that’s where I *think* I found your blog! haha. I am a MI mom also new to the blogging thing. I used to teach Kindergarten and loved taking pictures of the kids showing all kinds of different emotions. Your kids will love them when they grow up!
So good to “meet” you. Heading over to see your blog.
This is such a great idea! I so need to see what face my guy would make.
Those are such sweet pictures.
You have beautiful kids 🙂
I think I’d have a pretty hard time getting mine to cooperate, but I might have to try.
I **love** this idea!! I’ll definitely have to give this a whirl!
What a great idea! You’ll be so glad you did this. And they are adorable.
This is *such* a great idea, Jessica!
Oh I LOVE this! What a great idea! Your kids are adorable! 🙂
I love this!
but how I wish you got an eye roll from the teen…
I could have posted a picture of her back because that was pretty much all I got but I thought that would not be very exciting.
I love how you composed the pictures of each of them. I wish I was that creative!
Thanks for visiting my blog today Jessica. I’ve been doing this awhile but fell off the radar a bit and have found it difficult picking back up. Finding new and inspiring bloggers definitely help shake things up and encourages me to keep going.
Like you said, we’re doing this for our kids. I’m sure they’ll love this someday and that’s why I continue to commit myself to my blog. Our kids are a great reason to keep at this aren’t they?
There needs to be a t.v. show about you and your family. John and Kate plus 8 is over, now it’s your turn. lol
That would be me 🙂 I’m glad you did it… they turned out SO cute!
Oh yay it was you! Fixing my post to give you credit.
Oh my gosh what a great idea! They are so stinking cute!
Such a nice collage you’ve made of these adorable faces! I find the idea of such a collage simple genial, our children can express the most common emotions so honestly with their mimicri!
I LOVE THIS! What a great idea!!
Oh my word I love this so much!
I really love this idea!
I’m not sure if I can do this with my kids, they are really hard to photograph right now. I can only photograph their I’m-annoyingly-uncooperative-face.
LOVE this! Especially their scary faces. 🙂
This is such a great idea! They are adorable. Recently my tween told me, “you can’t take my picture & put it on the Internet without my permission!” lol I can relate to your teenager wanting no parts of it 😉
What a wonderful idea!
You have captured them perfectly and I think they will look back on this and be so grateful that you took the time to do this with them!
What a great idea! I love it! Your little ones are super cute. I might have to do this with my kiddos.
Great idea! And I bet that the kids loved participating in this too!
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I LOVE this! I’m a big fan of your little guy’s mad face, how cute is he?!
I love this idea. The pictures are adorable, you teen is missing out. 😉
I love this idea. That’s great that you got them to participate so well.
I love those photos and the reminder. 🙂
This is hilarious. Your babes are adorable…and hilarious.
I am a mama-razzi so I capture everything. I’m trying to figure out my new camera so I was putzing with it and trying to take a candid moment of Chunky laying in the sun in the living room. Well he saw the camera out and had a meltdown…I still kept snapping away.
I didn’t delete them.
Cause you know.
They’d make a good wedding video.
It IS so important to freeze time for a moment!
I like that you captured their different types of faces.
You are just the best mom. I say that without any kind of guile.
Aww, thank you. Even if I took the idea from someone else? Seriously. Thank you.
Exactly, that is why there are no pictures of my teen in this post. She wanted no part of it.
Beautiful, expressive children! They truly will appreciate this… one day 🙂
I’m sure we will go through the “mom why did you make me do that phase” and then if I make it through that, they will appreciate it.
My dad took a series of these photos of my sister when she was about 3. He had her make constipated face. I shouldn’t be so surprised that my kids are obsessed with poop and pee then, I suppose. I’m so going to do this too, once I can get something other than mad face.
That is hilarious about your dad and sister. You will have to share the pics when you do it, would love to see how it turns out.
This is such a great idea! I may have to try this with my own kids too.
Absolutely adorable! Your children make such cute faces!!
I LOVE this idea and am so going to use it. Thanks for sharing.
Great faces & great post!! I think that they will look back and giggle, roll their eyes, ask you to delete their pictures and then at some point they will reach an age when they will appreciate their own adorable faces (and their thoughtful mom). Take care.