More Poses, Ten Years Later

On our trip to the Gulf coast of Florida a couple of weeks ago, I remembered one trip we had taken to there 10 years ago exactly. I drove by myself 10 hours with the two boys and I was 5 months pregnant with my Youngest. I loved these photos of the boys and on our recent trip the two oldest boys indulged me in "recreating" the past photos in the same exact spots. Here is my oldest when he was just about to turn four.
And here he is 10 years later. I see they replaced these benches.



And here is my middle son when he was 2.5 years old:



And here he is 10 years later:


And here are the two of them on this same trip at the park. There was a "pirate ship" with port holes and they peeked out at me and it was sunset. Guess what? Being good sports had its limits as I did not re-create this same pose 10 years later. They maybe would have if no one else was at the park. So glad I have this:


I have lots of pictures of the two oldest boys running together on all vacations. They are 20 months apart. Compete much?
They had fund re-creating this one. They ran in slow motion like they imagined they did back when they were 4 and 2.5 years old.....

Here is oldest on a palm tree that grew parallel to the ground:

And here are the three of them now (youngest is not giving me the finger--it is the peace sign)


(will update with some more later....have to go check on the patient who is not happy that he is still very sore, uncomfortable and way over feeling awful on this 4th day after surgery, wake up two out of three boys as it is after 11:00 a.m., give them their list of chores and instructions for the day, and go into work for a little bit).
Update: We are on day 6 post-surgery and it has not been easy for anyone. Much pain, and a patient who is not happy that he does not feel better significantly each day and gets major, gripping, belly pain. It would help if the surgeon's office would call back after a couple days of calling and asking to talk to the doc or a nurse.