most of my kids photos have been taken at places like penney’s, walmart or kmart. i have usually been happy with them—but i am mostly having a picture done just to preserve the memory of how they looked at the time. i’ve only gone to an independent photographer about once. quite often, i have taken my preschoolers to the public school when the other kids were having school photos done. our local schools usually have a time set aside just for parents to bring in younger siblings for photos. i used to worry more about how my kids looked in their photos—wanted their hair and clothes to be just so. i used to make myself very uptight and crazy over this. i finally realized that most of the time, my kids hair and clothes ARE NOT “just so” and i was probably getting a more realistic picture of my child if they weren’t curled and primped. i just made sure that their hair was combed and their face was clean—it’s been alot better on my nerves!!!
however, if money weren’t an issue, i might take the time and spend the money to get fancier pictures done.
sylvia was so fussy as a baby, that for her first picture i just had my sister come over with her good camera and take a picture for me when she was several months old. her next picture wasn’t until she was over a year old. i just barely went in last month and had her picture taken at walmart. i had all my other kids pictures taken on a more regular basis.
one of my kids has a picture, when he was a year old, with a blue cast on his broken arm—his next picture, he had a really dark purple black eye—–poor kid looked like he was abused. his next picture, i happened to take him in a few days earlier than i had originally planned, or he would have had stitches in his forehead. but you know what, he was a very busy boy and the photos give an accurate description of what he was like.
sorry for the long-windedness—–i just took a painkiller and 1/2 of a caffeine pill—makes me really chatty for a little while.LOL!!
kevieb2007-5-17 17:11:45
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