*singing* Picture pages, Picture pages, time to get your picture pages! 🙂
Taylor had her school pictures done a couple weeks ago and today’s the day!! We get to look them over AND pick them up – woohoo!
Okay, I’m excited. I can’t remember if I posted this or not, but that morning she actually asked me for a ponytail. For at least a month now, she’s reluctantly let me brush her hair! And she wants a ponytail? I get the rubber bands out and she says, “I want blue and red.” (inwardly: *gasp!*) I calmly asked, “You want two ponytails?” Taylor replies, “uh huh.” (inwardly: major major dance around the room “Yes! Thank you thank you thank you!!”) The rubber bands are kinda thin see through things that, once in her hair, you can’t tell what color they are so I wasn’t worried about blue and red.
We get to the daycare and I realize I’ve left the form at work. I leave Taylor with her class and go to where the photographers were. The daycare director is there and tells me she’s got some up front (I didn’t see them). She gets me one and as I’m leaving, here comes Taylor’s class on the way to breakfast. Taylor sees me and, of course, wants me. Her teacher suggests that I go ahead and take her to the photographers since they’re probably close to done with the one they were working on (they were). I’m glad I was there… she took forever to warm up to the photographers and I believe we would’ve had a repeat of her last “school pictures” (she refused). I’m also grateful for the timing because I later learned that they had cereal with milk for breakfast. Not the brightest of choices for picture day. Oh yeah, and chocolate pudding with lunch. Not sure what they were thinking there…
As it was, there were several poses and they were all very very cute. The photographers were GREAT! They straightened her shirt, made sure the lace trim on her skirt was falling correctly, tucked that short, difficult strand of hair behind her ear… all of those things we picky people look for in order to rule out a potential photo! They blew bubbles (and ate them), they talked like a duck, and pretended that Taylor bit their finger off (really sneaky way of getting a really good toothy smile, I might add).
Anyway, I get to go peruse them in about an hour and I can’t wait!!!! *sigh*