Holiday Photos
Antoinette, a friend of the family, has four children. Year after year I await her Christmas card with her family photo, but it never comes. One year I asked her if she does holiday photos, and she told me that it is too difficult to get a good photo of all the kids at once, and often it is too much time, effort and energy to take them for photos, that by the end of the session everyone is a mess, including her and her husband!
Now that I have four children myself, I can understand her frustration. My oldest is seven, and although one would think she is the easiest to take a photo of out of the crew, this is not always the case. Well, see, she starts out smiling pretty, but then her brothers start to fidget, they try to get up and run away, Mommy and Daddy get sweaty, and before you know it, the babies are all looking at the camera but my daughter is making a funny looking face!
I think we have gotten it down to a science with the twins: as long as they are given cell phones, they will sit. But once they realize that they each have a different phone (one has Mommy’s Blackberry and the other has Daddy’s flip phone), they usually start to fight for the other phone. UGH!
So through all the fussing and posing and re-posing, changing outfits and wiping spit up and chasing after a dashing toddler, the baby usually falls asleep! And I don’t want him sleeping in our Christmas card!
This year, on Thanksgiving morning, right after they were all dressed, we decided to put the kids on the couch and try to take a photo. I wasn’t going to brave the malls or spend a fortune on a photographer this year. If I got a good shot, great. If not, what can I do? I ordered my folded cards from Vistaprint, with a collage on the front with a shot of the four kids on the couch and a family photo from Joseph’s Christening day. And on the inside, I put individual photos of the kids. I am pretty happy with my cards, considering I am exhausted!
Jennifer
Wife to Paul, Mom to Juliana (7), Anthony and Louis (1) and Joseph (2 months)
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