SUCCESS!!

I took Nadia for professional pictures the end of October 2008 (age 4 months) at Walmart and the end of November (age 5 months) at Sears and neither time did we get a single picture of her smiling even though it was pretty easy to get her to smile at home at that time. The first professional pictures that she smiled for were in the middle of February 2009 (age 7.5 months) at Sears. Ian's pictures have been taken twice so far at Sears - both in February. The second trip in February was just to get shots of the two of them together. Well Ian smiled for Karen at Sears today at the age of 5 1/2 months old! Way to go Ian (and Karen)!! Unfortunately I found out today that Karen is switching to another Sears. This Sears is 15 minutes from our home, and the one she's switching to is 35 minutes away. I will have to decide over the next month whether to have Karen take Nadia's 2 year pictures or whether to try Leah (whom Karen recommended at the closer store). I'm thinking I'll try Leah and if I don't think she's as good as Karen, we'll make the trek to the farther store to see Karen for future appointments.

Because Ian smiled it was hard to pick between the 8 poses! I got one sheet of four of the poses - two 5x7's, eight wallets, one 8x10, and one 10x13. I'll probably buy the extra $25 package that they usually offer when you pick up your prints. I used a Sears gift card so it didn't really cost me anything although my total wasn't too bad ($25.42). The pictures in this post are the ones that I did select. I'll use the other pictures in another post so that you can see all eight poses that I was choosing between. This outfit was one that Grandma Kennedy bought for Ian. I had brought along a spare outfit just in case he spit up on this one, but thankfully I didn't need to change his clothes. I know I will get a lot of delight out of looking at these pictures in our home and in my office at work.