9-12-08 3month Portraits taken

I took Rowyn on 9-12-08 to have her pictures taken at JCPenneys. I didnt get them back until yesterday 9-24-08... so you can imagine that i have just been dying not being able to blog about them yet.

I had an appt for 12:30pm, which i dont know what i was thinking because she typically eats at 11:00am so this put her right at morning nap time. To make matters worse, the photographer was running 45min behind so it was 1:15pm before they even got us back there... so it was for sure MeltDown time! I had taken two outfits that i wanted her to wear. I scheduled on a weekday specifically for this reason, because you cant do outfit changes on the weekends... so you can imagine that i was quite put out when we only made it through the diaper only pics, and one of the outfits, and this was with the photographer giving us about a 15min break to calm the sleepy beast,...yes i said beast... down.

Anyways, the pictures did turn out really good. Although they didnt do any kind of retouching, which again irritated me because she had just scratched her face two days before, then to add her meltdown... her face looks very red and splotchy. If i would have known ahead of time that they didnt retouch i could have rescheduled when that little scratch under her right eye went away... oh well...

Let me know what you think?

Blue Hydrangea Background













I changed the colors on this one with my fancy smancy photo software.




Here are some of the little collection sheets that they put together... ya know so they can grab you, turn you upside down, and shake you until they get every last cent out of you.

Brown & Pink Polka-Dot Dress
This is the dress that Amanda Duncan gave me, well Rowyn, at my baby shower. I have decided that this will be her "Milestone" outfit. What I mean is that i will have her pictures taken each time in this dress at least, so we can always look back and see how much she has grown, just by being able to see how much smaller this dress fits her. Eventually, it will be to small to wear as a dress, so then it will "magically" turn into a shirt and she can wear jeans or something under it. Good thinking, ...right?


Here she is the day we brought her home.






I changed the colors on this one too with my photo software.




She kept falling asleep... it was so cute... I can trade sleepy eyes for smiles...


We would call her name to try and get her to wake up so maybe, just maybe we could get one more smile... this is what we got instead of a smile. My daddy will love this one, because when we were little Sharon, Amber and I had our pictures made, and we were not happy about having to sit up there either, so we all three had pout faces. Ended up, that was my PaPa's(my dad's daddy) favorite picture of us, and he kept it on his night stand. I will have to see if i can get a copy of it and upload it so yall can see it, maybe my cousin Arin will help me out with that.(Hint, Hint) So anyways I'm sure, this will be one of my dads favorite pics of Rowyn too.




She was getting hungry again, on top of being so, so sleepy... like i said, they were running 45min behind before we ever even got back there... so she was then only 45min away from her next time to eat(2:00pm)... so she was sucking on her hands. Made for a cute picture anyways.




Me and my fancy software again...lol


This is one of my favorites.


Close up


Black & White

Here are some more of those collection sheets that you just "have to have"






Ok, so once we were done...we had to wait like 20mins before we could go back and view the pictures, and order which ones we wanted so, we walked around the mall for a little bit, found some really great sale racks. When we went back, they got me for a pretty good chunck of change, but i was just so tired of being there that i just told the lady to give me an 8x10 of each picture...(im thinking, i can do all these modifications at home with my software) ...she kept going on and on about this and that... "do you want this picture in black and white?", "do you want this collection page, or not?", "oh this might look better with her name on the top instead of the bottom"... on and on and on...

Finally, I looked at her and put my hand over her hand on the computer mouse, and i said with clinched teeth but very gently.

" Just... give... me ... an 8x10... of... each... picture. "
" Yes, of each one. "

Then i guess, after the third time of her hearing those words, she finally got it... GOOD GRAVY!

So then i was off to run my errands at babies r us... i had eight cans of similac that i needed to exchange... that is a whole other story...

Anyways, being "put out" by my experience at JCPenneys, and somewhat ticked off that we only got through one outfit. I thought, well, im here, i have all the outfits... she is only 3months old once in her lifetime... so...

Yep, I went and did it all over again at Kiddie Kandids at Babies R Us...
I thought, Chris is going to absolutly KILL ME... but he was actually pretty ok with it...maybe thats because he hasnt gotten the credit card receipt that reflects this particular day...lol
I dont know what in the world i was thinking... well i guess i was thinking that now that i had gotten her through a warm bottle and a somewhat of a nap... that maybe, just maybe this would be a better experience... well...




We started with the naked baby pics again... i guess that is pretty standard for babies at this age... I really love these... they pop really good on that black background.


Me and my software again...




This was the second outfit that i never got to at JCPenney's... so i was glad to finally get her in this one, cause her daddy picked this outfit for pictures. So i knew he would be happy to see that we did actually get it on her and at least a few shots done.

Then i thought... well maybe i can stretch her through one more outfit. I had also brought a few extra outfits... just in case i saw a background or some thing that grabbed my eye...



And then.....

She was FINISHED! DONE! FIN'E'TOE'! Meltdown #2 was in full swing



What a rough day for my little girl.









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