It is just so hard to take pictures of the kids when I am babysitting…it seems as if they know that that’s what I really really want, and they are determined NOT to give it to me! I had been telling Genevieve all weekend that I was going to take some pictures of her and she seemed cooperative; until it was time. Then she wanted nothing to do with the camera. Even Gavin, who is normally easy, cried when I tried to sit him next to her. I had to get Jim to help. We tried bribes:

…but as soon as the ice cream started melting and fell off the stick, there was a temper tantrum the likes of which you’ve never seen.

So while Genevieve was removed to the house where she could bang her head on the couch instead of the sidewalk, I tried to get a few of Gavin:

…but he was entirely too busy moving dirt with his truck to be anything but annoyed with me trying to get a smile from him.

Then we went to the park, where we thought we could get some smiles:

I have no idea what Jim was doing behind me to get them to look at the camera, and I probably don’t want to know. All right, so there’s no depth of field and they aren’t close enough together and the background is too busy, but hey, they’re at least in the same frame. It works for me, for now!

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