9 Month Pictures – A Right Of Passage

This is a little late…

Aside from my Uncle Tommy’s pictures, which are great and I’m SO thankful for, I had never taken Elijah for “professional” pictures for any of the typical milestones.  (I put quotes around professional because sometimes I think it is just some goon behind a camera in a closet of a studio.  In case you wondered, I haven’t had great experiences!)  Anyway, I was feeling bad about that, so when my Mom was off of work the week after Christmas and was able to help me watch Josiah, we packed up and went for our “professional” nine month pictures.

As usual, this was at least a somewhat stressful undertaking.  Despite the fact that I was fairly prepared ahead of time, a few mishaps and an overly busy 2 year old meant that by the time my mom came to get us, Josiah and I were still in our PJ’s!  And of course, I tried to put Elijah down for a nap early, so he refused to sleep before leaving, though he did finally fall asleep 15 minutes before time to go…such is life.  Thankfully he doesn’t tend to be a grumpy guy, though he does get red around his eyes when he is tired, as you can see a little in these pictures.  We still made it there with 10 minutes to spare and all was well.

Just as Josiah always was, Elijah was also bedazzled by the studio lights and could hardly be coaxed to give more than a grin, but we did get some great ones.  I didn’t shell out the money for the digital form, so these are scanned.  Hopefully they look ok.

The traditional portrait.

Big boy!

This is the outfit I really wanted him to wear for the pictures, but I didn’t really like how any of them turned out.  He looked like such a little man!

After the photo shoot we met up with Daddy at Chik-fil-a (always a treat) and had a nice, though noisy, lunch together.  By the end of it Mom and I were both worn out from keeping kids under control and cared for (afternoon already!).  Thanks Mom, for watching the boys again that night so that Jacob and I could go out to dinner!