Lots of Wine: 2 and 4 year pictures

I had the girls’ pictures taken late last week. I wanted to go to the same photographer that we went to right after Luca was born. We have an 11x14 framed print of the girls from this session on the wall of our TV room and I wanted to put another one under it with a similar format and frame. Since Luca is getting ready to turn 2 I thought it would be perfect timing… Boy was I wrong. Luca was not happy from the get-go. Granted, she has been pretty grouchy lately. Her molars are coming in, and she entered the ‘terrible 2’s’ several months ago. “No” and “mine” are her favorite words. She spends a decent amount of time at home walking around and crying, wanting to be held. Luca spent the first 30 minutes hiding and crying, while Lola hammed it up for the camera. Finally, after 45 minutes, Luca started to warm up. It was about this time that Lola decided she was going to stop cooperating. After 1.25 hours, we got a ton of pictures of Lola, a couple pictures of Luca not crying, and 2 pictures of both girls together (with Luca not crying). Needless to say, I was flustered and frustrated. One of the 2 pics of the girls was just okay, and I like the other much better. In a perfect world, we would have gotten even better pictures but at this point I will take what I can get. J