Picture Day

Giulia and Diego had their pictures taken today - what a task!

We arrived at 4:15PM for our 4:30PM appointment. I should have learned my lesson from last year. The studio was extremely hot - I was wearing a t-shirt and was dripping wet. Diego had been fed and dressed and was ready for his first shot. The poor lil man had to wait til 5:30PM for his first picture, by this time he was sweating bullets, getting hungry, cranky, and crawling around almost naked around the studio.

I picked him up and began re-dressing him in his very warm attire for his first picture .... Diego please sit still, please sit still, here look, look here, peek-a-boo, ahhhh, tickle tickle ..... 6:30PM I think I got a good shot --- okay both kids together. Diego stop running off, that pose won't work, he keeps taking off --- mom hold him til I say let go and then step back really quick. 7PM -- I don't think your daughter did well but that's as good as we are gonna get .... outfit change, X-mas pix -- I need at least one shot - this is for the X-mas cards ... the snowflakes are not a good idea, its okay it'll work -- oh please no, not a good idea, don't you have a big snow man? -- 30 shots later we got a shot with a non-flying snowflake -- but Giulia had the longest tired face.

Let's get a Halloween shot - we can't come back for a few months we need to get it now. Three pix later Halloween was done - Stitch was entirely too hot to stand another picture. By 8:45PM the pix were printed but it was too late to go through them. I will have to go back tomorrow.

I have to ask --- why do kids picture places make appointments if they don't keep them? It takes longer to take pix of cranky, tired, hungry, and hot kids. Why oh why?