Follow Your Instincts!

When Jack was born, instead of doing the hospital portraits, we took him to a portrait studio when he was a week old. (By the way, to all of my pregnant friends, I HIGHLY recommend this! You end up paying about the same, but the pics turn out so much better and you can actually pose them! Just take your own photos in the hospital. I can't remember who it was that gave me this advice, but THANKS!) Since then, Jack has gone back once a month for pictures. Jay and I just think that babies change so much during the first year, so we wanted to capture the changes in monthly pics and then after Jack turns a year we will probably just do twice a year. Anyway, so Jack was due for his 10 month pictures. (I know that on the page marked "10 months" there are some pics, but those are actually his 9 month pics, I just hadn't had new ones done yet.) Before I ever even called to schedule, I started having second thoughts about doing 10 month pictures. I was really debating because he really didn't change that much this month and I knew that he probably wouldn't cooperate well and that it would probably be a waste of money. I was really, really torn. Part of me thought it would be fine to skip 10 AND 11 month pictures, but the other part of me thought about how nice it would be to have an album with months 1-12 in it, so how could you just skip two months?!?!

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I should have followed my instincts NOT do it. But did I listen to myself....nope. Do I regret it...yup!

Let me just say that they do not make a strong enough deodorant for the feat that I was up against. It was like trying to wrestle monkeys and yet make them smile at the same time! Jack would NOT stay still and apparently our photographer had never heard of "action shots". If Jack did momentarily stop for a split second, then our photographer would kindly ask me to move his feet to the left. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? HE STOPPED MOVING--TAKE THE PICTURE!!!!

After a half an hour of this Olympic feat, the photographer didn't have her "minimum number of poses". Well, unless she wanted the last poses to be of tantrums, we were DONE! She then started to get the pics ready for us to go through and about that time Jay showed up. Argh, I think I will let him do next month!

The photographer got the pics ready for us to look through and there wasn't a single decent one! All of my efforts were for nothing! He didn't smile for a single one! (Actually, I should say, she didn't take any pictures when he was smiling because his feet or hands weren't in the EXACT right spot. Can you tell that I wasn't pleased with the photographer this time???) Jay and I did order two poses just as a pitty purchase since she did spend time on us.

Tonight, when I was putting the pics on my computer, I realized that I had him dressed almost exactly the same as last month. Argh.......it really was for nothing :-( The worst part is, now I have to do the 11 month pictures, how could I have an album with every month BUT one???