Will wanted to tell me about something that happened at school. I asked him if I could take some pictures of him while he talked. He said no, but I did it anyway.

He was crouched down trying to hide from me.

He can’t just concentrate on talking to me, he’s got to touch and feel and fidget.  Sometimes I grab him and make him focus, other times I let him go.  I fidget, too, so I know how it is.

He tucks his lower lip in like that a lot.

Can you hear him talking?  He was telling me about a drug prevention movie he’d watched in social studies.  There were a bunch of athletes (cool ones, like windsurfers and stuff) talking about how they couldn’t do the stuff they do if they were drug-users.  I hate that my fourth graders have to know about that kind of stuff.

I tried to get some smiles, but when he has to smile on cue, it gets goofy.  I didn’t even take those pictures, though I wish I had.  This closed-mouth smile looks pretty good, though.

Wasn’t it nice of him to pose in front of that wall of yarn.  It makes a great background, especially when it gets blurred out and is mostly just color.

Look at these eyes.  Isn’t he beautiful?  (This is one of the two photos that I actually Photoshopped, though I see now that it is still too dark.  It looks different here than it did in Photoshop.  I have so much to learn.  The other one I edited is the very first one back at the beginning of this very long photo-post).

And then he finally had enough of this messing around.

Come on, Will, show me what you really think.