Week Three - Childhood Memories

This weeks 52 Week Photo Challenge subject was Childhood Memories. It's funny the little things we keep as objects from our childhood and the memories we keep and those traditions of childhood that we pass on to our own kids.

Last year I did the 365 Project, for those that don't know this is where you take a photo a day for a whole year. It might not sound that hard but boy it is, it's challenging, very very very challengin and some days when you are rushed off your feet it's hard to find that time to get that shot and it's so easy to just think; "No more, I give up!". But I didn't, I perserveered and I completed it. And I'm proud. Very proud.

It's been nicknamed The Year I drove The Family Mad, but I hope (and I sort of know) that in a way it's looked upon with a smile and with fondness and I know already that Callum loves the memories of it all, heck he even told me this morning how he missed the project. At the end of the Project I made a little video up of all the shots I got of the boys throughout the year. One day I will get round to getting it put on disc and printing up the photos for them and I hope in years to come they will look at it as childhood memories. Anyway enough about that, that was last year and this is this year and a new project and new photos and new memories!!!

I had (and hopefully will be able to get the photos) so many ideas of what to photograph. I won't mention them at the moment with the hope I'll be able to update this with them in and what they mean to me.

I do however have this shot:

It's of my youngest son, Riley, and his greatest love... CARS!!!! What is it with boys and cars? I bet every grown man can still remember and has plenty of stories to tell about when they were younger and their favourite toy car or train or aeroplane. And I'm sure my boys will be the same. Callum can still remember the day we brought down his big bucket of cars and tipped them out and sorted them into colours and counted them.

What 326 cars look like

He still asks if we can do it again and we have done so but with a two year old now here it isn't so easy. But Callum still talks fondly of that day. And I'm sure there will be a day when I'll do the same thing with Riley, heck as I'm typing this I'm playing cars and aeroplanes with him.

As mentioned I do have other ideas for photos and I'll see if I can get around to taking them but with this week being busy with the last week of school and more important this weekend being Callum's Birthday I've had a lot going on.

Another Childhood Memory... Action Figures!