I haven’t had much of a chance to get out with a camera lately. Sometimes when I don’t get out for a while, I take a look back at what I photographed this time last year. So, I looked through the archives and the closet thing to today’s date I could find was December 26th of last year. Last year we had a small amount of snow for Christmas, which lingered for a day or two afterwards. I took that rare opportunity to go photograph a barn I had been eying for some time. So, that’s what I did last year…
Well, like I mentioned earlier, I haven’t been out with a camera in some time. However, I have been in with a camera. Since I have these kids running around the house, I have an anytime portrait subject. I have discovered that photographing your own kids in your own home is pretty dang difficult! They tend to want to go do what they normally do and not sit still for pictures. I really don;t know, but I would imagine this would be a little easier to control at a strange place, since they don’t know where the toy room is at said strange place 
Anyhow, yesterday I tried my hand at setting up a mini portrait session with the two babies…here are the results.
Alex went first. Alex will be 10 months old on January 1. He can crawl and climb like lightning, but is not walking yet. It’s hard enough to get him to sit still now, I imagine as the days go on that will even be a harder task. He smiles and laughs a lot, the only problem is getting him to sit still.
Next up was Blake. Blake will be 17 months old in January. If you’re swift at math, you’ll determine that those two kids are only 7 months apart. We cannot defy science…he is a foster child. Blake also smiles and laughs a lot, but has an even bigger problem sitting still. He no longer walks. He runs. Everywhere.
I guess most families take their Christmas photos before Christmas, but we had several small catastrophes leading up to Christmas that didn’t lend well to photographs. Mostly black eyes, rashes, etc. So, we had to wait until after Christmas. Ah, heck the Christmas spirit will be alive and well here until decorations come down at the end of the year anyhow
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