11.19.2008

Wordful Wednesday: The Holiday Card

I've been trying to take a decent photo for our Christmas card. After multiple attempts to dress up SoJo in Christmas-y clothes, this is all I get:
That resolution looks like something out of a "Tool" video. Could the boy just stop moving for 30 seconds?

How about this expression:
I call that "Marijuana Mellow." Not the best look for the Christmas card. And time is running out here, since I need to order them and get them in the mail, oh, sometime before New Year.

And finally, my little Oompa Loompa elf.
How do you all get the little one to sit still for the holiday photo? I'm thinking that we'll be doing a family photo this weekend so that one of us could at least hold him still. Now where is that darned tripod?

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21 comments:

Erin said...

LOL Sometimes blurry ones are my favorites. Ah I should get to work on that too. Hmmmm

rachael said...

haha! i have no idea, but i use a lot of crazy antics and someone behind me to distract them for the .5 seconds they allow me to attempt to get a decent shot. i love the pictures, even if they are blurry, he is a cutie!

Cathy said...

My boys are 3 and 6, and it's still hard to get a decent photo!

Naomi said...

Ugh, I have one of those, too. I have no idea how people get the nice studio shots with everyone smiling with open eyes...

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Susie said...

Sometimes you don't get them to sit still and you just have to be creative.

angie said...

I'm dying over the Mary Jane Mellow.

I'm hiring someone to photograph us this year. Fingers crossed.

Sage and Savvy said...

I can so relate... our pix never come out the way i want them too...but that's part of what makes them memorable!

amy purple said...

This is too funny. How about trying some duct tape to his bottom? haha just kidding.

Although, my first grade teacher totally taped me down because i wouldn't sit still! She would probably be fired for doing that today.

Muthering Heights said...

It gets MUCH harder with a toddler!!!

I usually give my girls something to hold...like a toy, jingle bell, ornament, etc. They are SO thrilled to be given something different to play with, that they usually smile and sit down to check it out!

Nicole Feliciano said...

Hilarious! NO wonder there are people who make a living doing it--it isn't easy for novices. Good luck.

mannequin said...

Ah the many faces of Soren. I LOVE that mellow shot and the elf.
Just think of it as creative photography and it's all good..
Either way you look at him, he's a doll!

LadyBug-Kellie said...

LOL I had the same problem last night with my daughter. I just kept clicking away - took maybe 50 shots and only liked one lol! I put a christmas present box on the ground and told her to sit on it - she thought that was cool. So that helped :)

Mc Allen said...

awwww, these are soooo cute, blurry or not!! he is just precious, I wanna pinch his lil cheeks!!! ;) LA

Elizabeth said...

He's a cutie, even in a blur! Maybe you could borrow a camera that has the image stabilization feature.

What's next said...

one of my favorites of one of my girls was I put her in PJ's, gave her a few orniments to play with and had her sitting in a pile of Christmas lights and then laying under the tree playing with an orniment on the lowest branch

Jennifer said...

I actually adore the pictures. Looking back, you will as well. :) The blurry ones are my favourites.

CanCan said...

I was lucky that both of mine were not yet mobile for the first Christmas photo.

When Jojo was 2, I posed him beside a little 3 foot Christmas tree and asked him where the star was. So the picture was pretty cute of him reaching up to grab the star topper.

That is my only trick I can think to tell you.

Kelli @ Gohn Crazy said...

A tip for that age - after two different photo sessions ending in tears (mostly mine) - find a big box, wrap it with pretty holiday paper. Sit the baby in the box and put osme really fun toys in the bottom of the box. He should stay put and you get his attention a few times and snap! Also right in front of the Christmas tree this looks even cuter!

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