We spent last Friday in New Orleans and it was absolutely perfect. Beignets! Long walks! A carriage ride downtown! Swimming! Pizza! Ghost Tours! And, best of all for my three year old? The Aquarium! Our day started off when I woke up Max telling him that he was about to go see a shark and he could not have been more excited. “A shark?!” He squealed. “A REAL shark?”. He was thrilled and the New Orleans Aquarium did not disappoint. I grew up going to this aquarium so, in some ways, I felt like my life had come full circle (in a parenting way!) as we walked around letting Max examine fish and stingrays and frogs and boats. I was a little scared he would get bored, but he was so enthralled that I shed a happy tear or two for him as he squealed and laughed and jumped up and down.
So yeah. If it wasn’t obvious before, I am that mom.
I am the mom that cries when her son gets super excited and ridiculously happy and altogether squeezable over a single life experience. And since I’m that mom, I’m also that mom who has to share the photographs of such an experience on not only our family blog, but my photography blog, too! So! Here’s the photos from our morning at the aquarium. I highly recommend it.
* Lissa Chandler is a portrait and wedding photographer in Northwest Arkansas who specializes in capturing authentic, beautiful moments in everyday life and special days, too. Lissa lives in Fayetteville with her family– a husband who loves old movies, a three year old who is still talking about sharks (and will see a T-Rex skeleton before the summer ends!), and a nine month old who snuggled into his Daddy’s shoulder and fell half asleep when it came time to stare at the sharks. Lissa often travels to the Greater Kansas City area and is available for travel nationwide. *
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