Nothing Like a Newborn to Take Me Down a Notch

Sunday night, we went over to visit Luke and his family...what were their names again? Oh, yes! The Brain, Nellie-Pooh, and Favorite Nephew Number One. Of course, I took my camera. I had thought about this moment several times...they have great light coming in their living room, they have a ginormous purple pillow that is perfect for propping up babies, beautiful baby, handsome family. I can do this! I even was thinking that following my pretty good day at the White River Gardens and the zoo, followed by decent soccer pictures, rounded out by the awesome air show pictures, a non-crawling newborn would be an fun way to finish up the week.

Well, Sunday starts a new week, and I'm thinking it may be a tough one.

Luke was great, but awake. That meant that he didn't particularly want to hold his hands or feet still. He wanted to try to look at me with those alien eyeballs newborns have, and somehow, I got my gigantic poof of hair between the light and him, making lots of pictures ultra dark. Ugh. I did salvage a few, and I'll give these to Nellie, but you'd better believe when I deliver this CD, I'll be dragging my camera back along. I figure if his parents are willing to let me use him as a model, I've got a solid 6 months before he's quicker than me!





Luckily, the "big" kids were especially photogenic and dirty. Hillbilly kids running through a sprinkler plus a sandbox makes for some pretty messy and extremely happy kids.







The really good "watering the yard the old fashioned way" pictures shall remain off the blog. We're waiting for their first date/high school graduations to debut those!