Mom Talk

We went to Sears to have my girl’s 4-year pictures taken today. It went amazingly well, a far cry from her 2-year pictures when she spent most of the shoot with red eyes and it took a lot of coaxing to get her to detach from my leg and get onto the backdrop. I think she’s actually holding my chap stick on one of those pics because it was the only thing I could think of that would stop the screaming.

Today, it was so smooth. She did exactly what the photographer told her and posed amazingly well. The only small issue we had is her “cheesy” smile. We quickly learned not to tell her to smile or we got the scrunchy-eyed, teeth-baring look that almost made me laugh. Instead, I had to act like a goof-ball to get genuine smiles and laughter. All in all, it was pretty painless. . .that is, until I had to pull out my credit card and pay for it.