This kid. You guys. She will not sit still, which has made our weekly photo session an exercise in patience.
I normally select the best picture each week, and have plans to make a collage and/or album at the end of her first year. But there was no best picture this week. Instead, I have a whole bunch of this:
Allie, sit up please.
No, we’re not standing on the chair.
We’re not lying down right now, either.
Here. Hold Mommy’s keys.
Keys don’t look good in pictures. How about a tea cup instead?
No, don’t eat the teacup.
Don’t throw the teacup either.
Will you be good if Mommy holds the teacup? No? Okay you can have it back.
I SAID DON’T EAT THE TEACUP!
Herbert is not going to steal your teacup.
She’s really not. Please look at Mommy. Can I have the teacup back?
Whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. Crawling off the chair is a really bad i…
And then we gave up.