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4/10/2012

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I had big plans for family photos this weekend.  Outfits picked out, location chosen, I was even going to get out my new remote so we could have a photo with all four of us.  Well... let's just say things did NOT go as planned.

We started with a baby that just needed sleep, and only wanted to sleep being held.  So that ruled out me doing my hair and make-up.  Then we had a toddler who decided she did NOT like the dress I had picked out for her and screamed "off off off!" as soon as I put it on.  Also, she got her face painted this morning at her gym class, and she sobbed when we wiped off her precious butterfly from her cheek.  We decided not to even fight the battle of taming her hair.

So we headed out to my predetermined location, much earlier than I had planned since the weather was taking a turn for the worse.  It was cold.  And windy.  After being nice and sunny and warm all weekend.  There was no sun to be seen.  But we soldiered on, and got the little ones unpacked and ready to go... and the cranky little baby was finally asleep and we didn't want to disturb him, and Riley flat out refused to do anything even somewhat cooperative.  Likely because there was a pond!  With ducks!  And a bridge!  And she was obsessed. 
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And when we tried to move away from the ducks to a new location?  Tears.  And she would take off running, yelling "go see ducks! go see ducks!" And then Jackson woke up from his mini nap.  And then my hopes of getting a decent family photo, JUST ONE, were crushed.  So we packed the babies up and headed home.  Then on the way home, we decided to give it one last try, and we stopped at a random field.  Something without toddler distractions (i.e. ducks).  Or so we thought... turns out, toddlers have incredible playground radars, and if there are any slides in the near vicinity, they will spot them. 
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Aaaaaaand off she goes.  I've never seen her run so fast.
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Now we were able to use this to our advantage, and were able to get a few decent photos using the playground as a bribe, but I had to work fast, she literally only sits still for 20 seconds with full bribery in force...
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She was not pleased about all the grass that was accumulating on her feet, and was saying "clean da grass off the feet?"
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I look forward to the days when Jackson can sit up JUST so I can get a photo of the two of them without random fingers and arms in the photo (and by random, I mean my husband's...)  Jack Jack was a little cold in the wind so he needed to be nice and bundled snuggling with mama.
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I sure do love these two little babies.
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And then finally it was time to go home.  Which conveniently, provided the opportunity for this photo... my favorite.
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And once we were done, we could all relax in the warmth of our home, looking as cute as ever...
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And someone discovered he can blow bubbles, which Riley thinks is AWESOME.  "Look mama, Jack Jack has bubbles!  Bubbles in da mouth!"
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So the photos weren't a total fail after all. No family photos, but that's alright, we'll try again another day.
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