For our Christmas cards, I was going to use one of our fantastic pictures from our shoot with Banner when Wyatt was born and Heidi turned one but both children, Wyatt especially, changed so much since the Fall.  So, we went on the cheap (Portrait Innovations) for Wyatt’s and Heidi’s 3.5 mos and 17.5 mos pictures, respectively.  It was also the day Wyatt’s adoption was finalized in court, which is one of the main reasons we went for pictures.  This time I actually did succeed in getting out of there cheaply quite simply because not many of the pictures were good of both children.  Michael has never been there and asked “Do you really want me to go?”  I replied, “Um, YES!  That’s why I planned it for this day, at a time when you could go, because I can’t wrangle two kids, one wild-woman and one lap-baby, and manage to get them dressed at the studio, so their clothes aren’t wrinkled for the pictures.”  Mike, “Oh, okay.”  We had a photographer and an assistant in the room with us and it took four adults an hour to get a few decent pics!  In fact, all of us adults called it at the end of the hour.  None of us, including the children, could have handled anymore.  When I look back at the pics from the disc, it is PDF (pretty damn funny).    Hope you get a chuckle too.  Next time, Banner here we come!

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