card picture, but getting both
kids to smile is hard.
This one is cute but
too bad the cat knocked the lamp
onto Mira’s head
Another try: one
isn’t smiling and one is
looking away…sigh
Let’s try again. One
still looking away, one with
mouth full of cookie
C’mon girls, smile!
Wait! Stop choking your sister
Cordy! No headlocks!
(Ya gotta click on this one to see Mira’s expression up close.)
The only time they
sit together is when they
are eating cookies
So every attempt
shows two mouths covered in fine
layers of brown crumbs
I give up. I’ll have
to rely on Picnik to
create a good pic.
I always thought it was difficult to get a good picture of Cordy for our holiday cards each year. Turns out, having two kids isn’t twice as hard – it’s about 649 times as hard. Like trying to wrangle dinosaurs through your great-grandmother’s miniature glass animal collection.
And for some reason, the only time I can get these two to sit next to each other is if there are cookies involved. If I should wipe their mouths off, the moment is gone and they won’t even stay in the same part of the room. Thank goodness for photo editing.
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I would like a mouthful of cookie too, please. What kind are they?
(that’s my fave pic – I vote for that one!)
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Wow. You never notice it in real life, because she’s so busy. But when you get a good picture of Cordy, she looks child-model gorgeous. Mira too, for that matter. The last one is great.
Mouthful of cookie is my second favorite.
I know how you feel. This is the first year we’ve paid a studio to take ours and only 1 out of 3 children were smiling. At home, my husband has to do a crazy dance behind me just to get them all to look in my general direction and maybe crack a smile.
Great Haiku – thank goodness for photo editing, huh?
Delightful photos …
everyone a treasure and
wonderful Haiku ;–)
I appreciate photo editors too, but sometimes ‘au natural’ generates memories to be treasured as well … so both work for me.
My first Haiku is up at Sacred Ruminations. I’m working on posts for the other two blogs and will return to add them to Mr. Linky when they’re finished. I’ll be visiting this afternoon. Happy Holidays to everyone!
Ugh. Trying to get the perfect xmas card picture is one of the bains of my existance. Two years ago, the best I could do was to bribe my three with lollipops to get them to sit close enough to eachother for a picture. Even then, one had his eyes closed. Last year, I didn’t even attempt. This year, now with 4 to wrangle, I cheated and made the card with 4 seperate individual photos. Maybe next year, I’ll get that perfect shot?
Your kids, and the pics, are adorable!
Love your efforts to with these pictures! And I think they are all winners! Each one shows so much natural character and no artificial posing!
One day you will look back at all this and laugh! They will become great memories! I promise you!
Aw, so very adorable!
I love that last shot. We had the same problem this year. We ended up just using photos we took a few months ago from a Target studio 🙁
all of those pics are adorable, but that last one had better end up on your card 🙂
Last year, Chris ended up photoshopping two pics together to get the desired result. They were from the same session, but just try getting a 2 1/2 year old and a 3-week old to cooperate.
Of course, what’s our excuse a year later?
Picnik is my best friend. They get rid of rashes on faces, red eye, drool all over her face…
The last one looks really good, and better than what I got with one kid.
I love love love that last one!
What a fun series. (To read. Not to live, I suppose.) Love all of the photos.
I love all of them. Of course you saved the best for last.
I need cookies to take good photos of my kid too. Of course my kid is a dog, so I don’t think that counts.
Hi, my Haiku is up and I really like the last photo on your post, it is beautiful…stunning might cover it!
🙂
I posted a Christmas haiku today for Pensieve’s Poetic License and nearly forgot it was Friday. So it’s up, and has been for a bit.
Excellent photo work! It’ll be a beautiful card.
Mira is looking more and more like you.
Great photos they never seem to be as good as you want….we loved them…
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that last one’s definitely a keeper. nice editing!
I would go for the lamp one.
(Sorry, should have written that in haiku. )