Because we went to take his passport picture yesterday and it was horrendous and hilarious at the same time.  If you have never met my son–that would be most of you–then you don’t know or understand that there is nothing my son likes more than an audience that isn’t his mother or father.  Minnow is a grand showman and if one person is looking on it might as well be 1000 people, he doesn’t care he is in full-on performing mode.  It took the poor photographer 25 minutes to get a picture that we certainly will not be able to use.  He mouth looks just like this–his arms are down in the picture as I talked him into putting them into his pocket otherwise all of the pictures would have resembled this picture…

I love my son and his personality is one that makes me laugh as well as others, but sometimes I wish he was a little more introverted–at least when it comes to taking passport photos–it’ll be too bad that he doesn’t get to go to St. Maarten with the rest of the family.  If only he could learn not to show off.  I am starting to prepare myself already for the “Minnow is quite the performer Ms. Dalai Mama but in religion class we really prefer that he not perform.”  I know we will receive a mass amount of phone calls because my son loves audience.  I can’t wait to see what his school pictures turn out looking like.