Michelle Smiles

Teaching my children to question authority, except mine.

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May26

Sabrina and Tessa are different in many ways.  One way is their reaction to my camera.  When Tessa is paying attention, she hides from my camera.  I truly have to catch her when she isn’t thinking about it.  Sabrina has developed a new habit since I got my new camera.  She immediately starts striking odd poses.  I have to tell her to stand still and smile in order to get a semi normal shot of her.  The other night, she was in the middle of asking me a question, noticed the camera in my hand (I was taking a photo of the broccoli for the post).  She immediately stopped talking and started vogue-ing.  Instead of clogging up your screen with 27 photos of Sabrina’s new vogue-ing habit, I thought I would make it one image.

And just to show it wasn’t an isolated incident, these are the photos I got while taking her last day of school photo.  I snapped 2 that looked normal.  The rest were like this.

And just to give Tessa a little equal opportunity collage time – proof she is momma’s girl…she loves her some pasta! She was begging like a baby bird with her mouth hanging open.

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  1. On May 26th, 2011 at 11:19 am Heather Says:

    Our 10-year-old daughter started doing that when the camera would come out at that age. She would still do it if I let her, but then I ask really nicely for her to give me a pretty shot and then she straightens herself out and I get an amazing picture. That’s a recent thing, so it only took 5-6 years to get a not-hamming-it-up picture from her.

  2. On May 26th, 2011 at 7:13 pm jane Says:

    I feel your pain. Mine yells, ‘Wait! I havta strike a pose!’
    Maybe they’ll settle down by Senior Prom season…