Sunday, September 21, 2008

A Day without a Smile

As I walked Chandler out from Ladies' Bible Study to the car Tuesday morning, I noticed not only what great weather we were having, but also how beautiful the church grounds were. So I hesitated as I was about to put him in the carseat. After all, the big boys were at home, this was my chance. Why not have a little photo shoot with this big 6 month old?!

So I grab my camera, and set him down on the grass. At first all he wanted to do was touch and look at the grass.

Spontaneous Shoot 1

Then I realized I could get low enough to get the cars out of the background. This is when it really got fun.

Spontaneous Shoot 2

My only hitch to this otherwise perfect opportunity: I could not get Chandler to stop making this face.

Spontaneous Shoot 5

Some ladies walked up behind me and managed to get an attempted smile:

Spontaneous Shoot 4

He even didn't want them to leave. But he just couldn't smile:

Spontaneous Shoot 3

I did manage this:

Spontaneous Shoot 6

and this drooly cheesy-ness:

Spontaneous Shoot 8

Sigh.

So I headed over to the restaurant where Chuck was eating. As soon as we got into the restaurant, Chandler got fussy. This is, again, out of character for Mr. Happy-All-The-Time. So I skip out on lunch and take him home. Then it hit me: he was making poopie! That's why all the faces. And by the restaurant he was ready to be changed.

Duh. You'd think this was my first kid or something.

5 comments:

Kelly said...

That's hilarious. At least when he gets older you'll never have to look back and say, 'Sure wish I'd caught his poopie face on camera!' It's like a perfect play-by-play. :)

Kathy said...

I can't believe how old he looks!

His 'poop'en face' is adorable! He's adorable!

Those are great pictures!

Stacia said...

What a stinker! I guess literally. Hah! :) The pictures are great, I love the angle. Sorry you couldn't get a smile.

We'll talk more about picture taking soon. I didn't even notice you had 2 less tags on Tuesday. What a nice treat to only have one.

Mells said...

That's too funny! I thought that he was just sad b/c the brothers were around! ;) HAHAHAHA! Thanks for the chuckle this morning! :)

carrhop said...

These are just precious--and your description about what was 'really' going on (The Diaper Journals...) was hysterical! Gorgeous pics, regardless of the biological function...
Blessings!