Getting Our Photos Taken (by Dana Napoleon)

Have you seen the photos that Dana Napoleon has done for Soft Clothing?  I know you have -- they are the incredibly cute ones with the kiddos in the old car?  If you have been under the sensory-free rock this last month, you have to check out the links!

I saw them on Facebook (and everywhere else) and wanted to know more about the photographer - a woman I had actually come in contact with once before on a listserv here in Washington.  So, our Facebook conversation via comments went like this:

Me:  I love your photos!
Dana: Thank you!  I could take your boys' photo!
Me:  You don't want to do that. LOL  They will be horrible -- Matt's a runner.
Dana:  We could do it here by my house, it is fenced!
Me:  Is there any standing water?
Dana:  No. 
Me:  OK!

With that I convinced my husband to accompany me and all three boys on the 1 hour and 15 minute trip to Tacoma.  Yes.  In their 'good' clothes. 

What was I thinking?

I'll tell you -- I was thinking that if this amazing photographer could actually capture some great photos of my kids, it would be well worth it.  We hadn't had professional photos in an outdoor setting since Matt was 11 months old.  And that photo of the tree boys still hangs in my family room.  Jeff and I joke that should we divorce, we won't argue over who gets the kids -- but rather who gets the photo of the kids.  So, I was looking forward to this opportunity!

What I wasn't anticipating is Dana having a Polar Express Train set up on a train table in her backyard that Matt bumped right into when we arrived.  Nope, not expecting that.

Matt loves trains.  Getting his photo taken?  Not so much.
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