21(b)

Leigha’s eyes are hazel and very cool for pictures because they change colour. Here I'll show you. In the picture below she is standing next to some orange-yellow croton plants which make her eyes look amber. And here she is again. This time her eyes pick up the grey-blue of her sweatshirt and end up looking green. And in case you were wondering - no she isn't wearing lip gloss. Those are her natural unedited lips. Eat your heart out Revelon!

Right so this post contains two pictures. Yes this project is 1000 faces but I never said that it was  going to be 1000 photos. That’s because sometimes I like more than one shot of a particular person and I just can’t make up my mind which picture to post. Rather than lose sleep over it I’ve decided to post both pictures. Please note that if I post 1, or 2, or 5 pictures of the same person it still only counts as one face for the purpose of my project here. Of course you can always help me out by leaving a comment about which picture you think should stay and which should be deleted. I would be happy to comply in the face of overwhelmingly popular opinion. Forgive the tacky pun.

21 (a)

Some of you know her as my daughter on my other blog but she's really my niece. She and I, we are tight. As a little girl she was entirely besotted with her fabulous Aunty. Now that she’s a teenager our relationship is a bit more tenuous. It seems that I can now go from from hero to zero in the space of about two minutes.

Also I must tell you that teenagers make you feel very old. Just when you've convinced yourself that you don't have crow's feet but laugh lines and freckles not age spots, a teenager will come along and set you right. You can lie to yourself but your teenager won't lie to you.

One day I helped Leigha conquer a difficult castle level of Super Mario on her Nintendo DSi. Yeah I totally whooped boss monster’s butt and was bathing in the adulation of my kids.

Leigha: Wow! Aunty that was awesome. How did you do that?
Me (all snarky cause earlier she hadn't wanted to let me play): Girl, I was playing Mario way before you were born. I conquered that game so long ago, except that that back then we hooked the Nintendo up to our TV.
Leigha: OMG, You mean there was like, TV, when you were a child!

WTH? How old does she think I am for her to think that there was no television when I was younger?!!!