Sunday, January 31, 2010

Static Beauties.

Trying to get ready

It's 12:45 p.m. on Saturday and I am on the telephone with the photo studio letting them know we will be late for our 12:45 p.m. photography appointment. My goal of this photo shoot was to capture our family at our best, right now, while we are living in Montreal. But at 11:30 a.m., all four children had been dressed-up, hair quaffed, and outfits straigtened but something is missing. There is still one more person that needs to style her hair and get some make-up. The person, of course, is me. I decide that I'll do it on the way, but realize "on the way" is only 3 minutes or less! I mutter to myself that I need to plan ahead more or start earlier, but realize - I did start earlier. You can't plan baby spit-ups, crying spells, and diaper changes - it just doesn't work that way.

When we roll in 20 minutes late, Mr. T just left us an orderous present and The Hawk, fittingly, is screming. I push a pacifier in his mouth and sigh at changing Mr. T. That's when I heard, "it doesn't matter you won't see it," from Craig. Surprisinly I agree, and off we go to fit in as many photos as we can in 15 minutes. All told, it went well. Mr. T was asleep for most of it and The Hawk was wide-eyed and interested. No babies cried, no little girls fought, and I managed to squeeze my make-up and hair in before our arrival.

Static Beauty...
I have now been sitting too long to stay completely awake. I am nodding off while typing -apparently you can do this! The girl's hair has been a challenge during Montreal's bitter cold, dry winter's. This is what kept happening everytime I tried to comb their hair. My hair has a tendancy to fly away too, but these little beauties take the prize.


Before the photo shoot, the girls and I took a before photo to document what we look like before hair and my make-up...


Here we are, all spruced up and ready for the hot lights. We arrived at the studio with only 15 minutes left in our time slot. We threw off our boots, took the babies out of their car seats, and rushed back to our shoot. I will be doing this all over again on Wednesday since we only had time to shoot our family photos and missed the babies and the girls.

8 comments:

Natasha said...

I love it, so real Michelle!

One of my favorite pics of me with Luci as a baby is one of her sitting on my lap while I had rollers in my hair and was trying to apply my makeup.

donna said...

Wonderful post! :) I am so excited to see the pictures.

Melinda said...

My SIL just went through this on Sat with her triplets! I don't think anything ever runs smoothly when professional pictures are involved. I am so glad you were able to get a family one in and hope the kids pictures goes well for you!

Nicole said...

Hope everything went well. Professional pictures can be so stressful. (That's why I am never in them!)

Natalie said...

Haha...Sounds like me trying to get out the door to church each Sunday! Better luck on Wednesday with just the munchkins!
(Enjoy your remaining days in Montreal! Have some smoked meat, or a bagel or some poutine for me, kay?!)

Jenny said...

Sounds so familiar! When my 3 youngest were babies & toddlers. I always felt like I was running a marathon that could not be won.

Marie said...

You're back! I know that life is doubly busy with two babies, but I've missed your posts! I'm glad things are going well and you are making the most of your time there before the move. When is that happening?

I hope you post the family picture when you get it back. I want to see all your beautiful family at once.

Megan said...

Congrats on the babies! That is so wonderful. I love the getting ready pictures and can't wait to see the whole family. I hope you're doing well. Take care!