Christmas Portraits Take 2

Todd looked at my portrait efforts and was disappointed there weren't more of the kids together looking at the camera smiling. Yeah. We've had this conversation more than once.... but he was interested enough to volunteer to help me the next morning, Sunday, to try again. So I agreed. At the very least, I knew it couldn't hurt for Todd to see how hard it can be since he's always looking for those shots! So Abbey was definetly not as serious this time! Sweet photo; made the card. Daddy trying to get Abbey to focus, but realized that Elmo wasn't meant to be a part of the photo! Nice Daddy/Daughter shot. So we stuck the kids in the office chair in our room and kept twirling it, hoping to get a photo of them both. This ended up being one of my favorite pictures of Adam every, though I had to crop out wild Abbey. Best (?) shot of them together!! Adam jumping on our bed...by this time, the "photo shoot" had fallen a part.... Abbey looks like a grown up girl here...messed with the coloring in Iphoto some here. One last try to get a good photo of Abbey looking at the camera smiling with a costume change.... I even let her stand on the dining room table...pretty girl. This totally looks like the portrait of my grandmother that hung in our living room as a child from the 1940's. Only time I've seen a resemblance of my children to her. Partly the hairdo, partly the look on her face. One last try...Daddy put both kids on his lap and Abbey took off...but a nice Adam and Daddy shot! Todd was ready to pack it in, telling me to use photos from the day before and admitting the perfect shot is hard to get :) But in the end, I got a couple of really good ones on both days. Can't help it...I might be obsessed!