Getting Portraits Done
We took the children to get portraits done at Sears yesterday. Bip went first to prevent him from getting bored and crabby. He did pretty well until he got tired of being on his belly. The photographer was trying to get him to laugh, but everytime he would, he’d just wiggle with happiness and then lay his head down on the pillow so we couldn’t get a good picture. Then I had him positioned so sweetly, hands in front, head up, looking right at the camera and she wouldn’t take the picture. She kept trying to get him to laugh. I told her twice just to take the picture. Finally he just laid his head down and cried. I could have cried, too. So he went off to be distracted by Phil and next up was Pumpkin Girl.
She wanted to pick her own background, the blue one with a sort of pastel rainbow. We put the big number 5 on the stage and she sat down in front of it. She looked so grown up! She smiled so pretty and we only had to take one picture.
Then Boo. He stood up next to the number 7. He looked stiff and unnatural. He kept raising his eyebrows and facing the camera, but looking with just his eyes off to the side. He does this at home when I’m trying to take his picture, too. Not sure what that’s all about. FINALLY got a good picture of him.
Then the children all together. We brought a framed picture of Becca to include in the portrait. I have seen this done a couple of times and I really needed to include her. The end result is just wonderful, all four of our sweet children in one picture. It was a bear to get though. Bip kept tipping over, Boo kept looking at Bip or off to the side, Pumpkin Girl kept frowing and tilting the picture. We got a keeper, though.
And now the long process of choosing which pictures to buy in what sizes. Then the other photographer who was there did an amazing thing. She had made a collage out of the group picture and close up head shots of each child. Each child’s face was placed in an oval and they formed a quarter of a circle surrounding the group shot. She offered to scan Becca’s picture and include her little face in with the close ups of the others around the main picture. It turned out so beautifully and it just brings tears to my eyes to see it. Our sweet baby, right with her brothers and sister, right where she belongs.
And at the end, I had 5 more points to spend on my package and I just couldn’t get it to work out, so I said don’t worry about it. Then they offered me a print of the scan of Becca, in an oval, a rose printed on the "mat" and "A special place in my heart" written on it.
The children were wonderfully behaved the whole time. Blessings all around.
