My manic Monday post is about taking our kids pictures. How hard should it be?! A smile right? It should be a simple 1-2-3 smile! And bam! The biggest brightest smile, right?! Hmm… not so much at my house. Here is one photo session and the results…
Smile Honey, just a quick pic for Daddy…
Oh Honey! Let’s try again…just a quick smile? Daddy would love to see your smiling face today! Please?
When we go inside for snack….Ok…well maybe we’ll try later. Inside.
Ok, it’s hard. Super crazy hard to get kids to smile on queue. This one’s at least closer! I’ll take it. Still not a smile really but at least I have some great blackmail pics to use for her High School graduation slide show. Will they even do those in 2029?! Oh god, just thinking about that I made those same faces!
Just to prove she will on occasion smile for mommy….
Happy Manic Monday 😉
Meaningful Mommy 
When you’re trying to get a picture, it seems kids can never cooperate! 🙂 Family pictures are the worst for us! #manicmondays
Stinkers 😉
Haha, this reminds me of my husband, getting him to actually agree to have his picture taken is … well, you’d have better chance of talking a tree into speaking than him into taking a picture!
Ha! Men 😉
I love it! When they’re young, they just don’t care. Then when they get older, they can’t wait for a camera to pop up so they can look glamorous…lol.
I agree! My five year old loves to smile and then see her picture! The faces my three year old makes just kill me! So funny 🙂
To get a good picture of my almost-two-year-old I have to take about 100 of them!!! Ha! Thank goodness for smartphones to make it a little bit easier.
Yes! Digital photography is a sanity saver! I can’t imagine I’d be laughing if I was paying for all the prints of the pics I have to take to get one good one!! 🙂
How old is she? My eldest went through about a year of … challenging photo times. She’s now mastered the art of smiling on command though – she’s four and a half. I wonder if it’s developmental – as babies they are totally unaware and not-self conscious so you get awesome candids. Then they work out you are taking photos and it becomes challenging for a bit – until they work out again they have the power to MAKE or BREAK the photo. My eldest is now a pleasure to photograph again. I’m curious how long this phase will last because I’m wondering if it goes in waves…
She’s three. I do think it’s a developmental thing that goes in waves. She knows what I want and just doesn’t want to. She thinks it’s pretty funny. It probably doesn’t help that I laugh because those faces she makes just kill me 🙂 My daughter who is 5 loves to smile for the camera so I’m hoping my little one will follow suit soon!