Patty Cake

I'm in my office working on my computer and Stephanie is in the shooting room right now with a beautiful mother of a sweet little one year old boy. They are having a ball doing a portrait session for his first birthday. I just heard the mother exclaim, "He's never done patty cake before! Oh my gosh! That's SO cute!" and gails of laughter.

I couldn't help but smile. Years from now, that little boy is going to graduate high school and move away to college. I can imagine him driving away to college all excited about the next step in his life and this same mother walking into his much too empty beadroom with a photo album, sitting down on the bed and looking through the memories.

One of the memories she will find there is the moment he first played patty cake.