Ok, so now I'm sure why I don't go spend a thousand bucks on a photographer. Sears portraits studio is just fine by us! We're not too good. Basically, we like it because we can buy the CD with all the pictures to edit and duplicate as we like. The ones you see here have not been editted. Anyway, by last night I was Mommied-out! Mark was working, and my friend I spend the most time here is out of town. I could so do this picture thing by myself, right?... Wrong! Well, sure it could be done alone, but not while holding on to an ounce of sanity. It was an all day affair. Besides eating and taking a short nap we were doing something for the pictures. It started early. Like any good male does before a special occasion, Asher got his hair cut first thing that morning. We greeted the lady as she opened the Super Cuts. (Asher already has superhuman fast growing hair like his Mommy). Then it was off to Sears. After spending hours there, going back twice to finish, and getting smeared (I'm not using this word lightly) with blue cake icing we have some mediocre pictures. The photographer said we could have come back today since Asher was kinda zombie-fied, but I refused. I was not going to devote another entire day to the cause. Surely to goodness we could get a couple of good ones, and we did. (It's not that hard when your subject is the cutest kid on planet Earth!) When we finally got home at 8 :15 from a 2:00 portrait appointment my poor baby was exhausted and sick to death of that stupid quacking duck puppet. It's funny how smoothly and fairy-tale like things go in our heads. I just knew he was going to be this happy, bouncy 1 year old that loved getting his photograph taken while wearing an exceptionally cute outfit. His name was monogrammed on it for Pete's sake! What kid wouldn't love that? I guess his interest and mine are different:) Lesson for today: Take back-ups when taking a mobile baby to get pictures made. You might even want to take a 6 pack. No, just kidding on that part, but MAN!
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That's funny! Its definitely easier to follow a mobile child with a camera than to try to get that active child to stay in one spot. We had our one and only portrait sitting like that at Olan Mills and I wanted to cry out of frustration. Boy, did those photographers earn that sitting fee! Next time I see you, I'll bring out the trusty Canon. :)
I know you were frustrated but it makes for a funny story! I already have some perfect days planned out for Will and it'll be interesting to see how they actually turn out! I think its cute that they kept taking his picture in his diaper. And that's cool that Sears lets you buy the cd to do what you want to! I took my dogs to a portrait sitting at the vet and man, that was fun trying to fit 150 lbs of Golden Retriever on a teeny tiny platform. I figure that's just a dose of what it will be like to have a toddlers picture made.
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