Portraits

As I blogged a month ago, we took Sarah to Sears for her 3-month portraits. Here are a couple of nice ones that we end up buying. She was cranky and sleepy that day = not-so-good pictures. Stupid me made sure she was well fed, but didn't think about her much-needed nap. So she didn't sleep much beforehand, which made the photo shoot somewhat difficult. The other mistake we made was that we brought her there exactly on her 3-month mark, which at that age, her smiles were mostly by chance. Her tummy pictures were also a disaster -- struggling and crying. No good pictures there

Our experience with Sears wasn't all that great either. I could tell that the "photographer" was inexperienced taking pictures with babies. She didn't have any of the props ready and even had to borrow our blanket. At first she was at least patient and took a lot of pictures of Sarah (these were the 1st pose we took). But after she found out from her co-worker that the camera in the other room wasn't working and her co-worker had to use ours, our photographer rushed the pictures. And the sloppy work showed in the poor quality of the pictures. We didn't buy any of those pictures at all. I think I would think twice before going to Sears for portraits again. It could be that I just got a bad photographer, but it could be that they are all like that. For Sarah's 6-month portraits, I think we are trying another place; just for fun.

P.S. This was the outfit I bought for Sarah's Red Egg & Ginger party. But on the day of, she threw up and she ended up wearing something totally different. With babies, sometimes things just don't happen the way you plan it to be...