Post by cam on Feb 23, 2015 13:43:42 GMT -5
On the extended family photo topic I had mentioned previously...
I had been feeling an ounce of hope after discussing how to prepare LO for this. That has been pretty well squashed now. Over the weekend, the hobbyist photographer relative LO is close to who usually does his photos tried taking photos of him and his second cousins with the great grandparents. To say it was a train wreck is an understatement. At this point, if any hope I had wasn't thoroughly squashed, the email I just read sure took care of that. A SIL has been handling setting up the photographer. She had emailed previously saying she found a photographer who had asked if we wanted to do it at 10am but that SIL thought 9am would be better. 9am would not have been my choice period, but with time change coming up on top of travel always pushing back LO's sleep cycles, I am even less a fan. I will have to wake him up early then rush him along (he usually takes a while to get ready to face the world, before he is ready to eat, etc). I had responded that unless the later morning is out of the question, that it would likely go better to do 10am (while I silently had my fingers crossed that the photographer would say 10am was the earliest she could do), explaining LO takes a bit to warm up and the time change and travel will put him on an even later schedule than normal. So the email I read this morning says that things are pretty much set in stone already and that the photographer has a LO and nieces and nephews so she should be good at being able to get kids to smile. SMH. Getting my LO to smile is hardly the only/most difficult challenge. The idea that smiling is the issue makes me concerned that the hopes for these photos may be higher than I had expected (and higher than is probably even reasonable for a lot of 3-year-olds, SN or NT). I am going to feel out MIL and FIL to see what their expectations are as they are the ones that truly count (this is for them and at their request); I do think they will not expect a 3yo to sit all nicely posed with a perfect smile, but I want to know for sure where their expectations do fall. I am getting in more and more of a panic. I don't know what I can get from this post, but I needed to vent, and I think you guys will understand best. Feel free to also talk me down, tell me not to care if the photos are a failure (this is MH's view, but I don't buy into it just coming from him), offer any additional suggestions if you happen to have any - whatever you have to offer, I will take. I am a mess about this right now.