Every year at school Baylee gets fall pictures and every year they are horrible. I don't know what it is about this time of year but when they do the spring pictures at school they are always so much better. Either her hair is messed up by the time they get around to her class or she smiles like she is in pain from practicing so much.
So this year (this morning to be exact) I decided to have my own little photo shoot with Baylee and Carson to kind of off-set the eminent bad picture from picture day - which happens to be this Tuesday.
Baylee and I got up early and got her ready. Lucky for us living in the country has it's rewards in the way of beautiful landscapes so we drove up the street, jumped out of the car and started snapping shot after shot of really cute pictures.. all with my iPad!
We returned home and ate breakfast before getting Carson ready and heading out again with him in his wagon to get a couple pictures of him and Baylee together and then him by himself. What a nightmare. As soon as I found a great place for both of them I told Baylee where I was going to take the shot and she stood in place. I got Carson out of the wagon and stood him next to her. I took a few steps back to grab the camera and by the time I was ready he was sitting playing in the grass. I had to sing 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' just to get him to look up at me. I think I may have gotten one pic where he is looking at me.
Getting frustrated with myself, him and Baylee (why I have no idea) I decided to pack it up and head back to our yard where we have train tracks and lots of wild vegetation that is very pretty this time of year. We got a few decent pictures by the tracks - which aren't used anymore I should add. We then moved down to our yard.
I don't know why I thought being in our yard vs someplace else would make a difference because it didn't. If anything I think it made it worse. Knowing where he was seemed to make him more apt to trying to flee the scene (pardon the pun). He dropped to his knees and then was flat on his back. Poor Baylee was trying her hardest to hold onto him so he couldn't escape but he proved too strong and broke her grip. He then happily crawled through the grass towards our house.
By then I was done. I got picture after amazing picture of Baylee and not one of Carson by himself. The few I got of the two of them together were great but I was hoping that I would be able to get at least one of him by himself. Maybe I'll be able to get that one next time..
Baylee being a great big sister helping me with Carson today.
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