For the past nine weeks, I've been extremely proud of myself that I can tell my twin nephews apart. Well, not anymore! The way I could tell was by their hair specifically. Euan has always had really smooth hair, whereas Ethan has had fluffy hair. Well in the 7 days since I last saw them, Euan's hair has gone EXACTLY like Ethan's! Yikes, I cannot tell who is who...And I'm not stripping them off each time I want to know who is who to find Euans birthmark!
There is still only a 1lb weight difference between them, but it's not noticeable unless you're holding them.
Zoe, Thomas & I took the twins to have their baby portraits done on Thursday. This same studio did Emily & Thomas' portraits when they were only a few weeks old. Zoe has one of each of the kids in her lounge - It's a black background with the baby wrapped in a feather boa, which is the one she wanted of the twins too.
What a nightmare! Ethan was so good during the session, but Euan was pretty much crying constantly! What would probably take about half an hour with one baby took more like 2 hours, and Euan still wouldn't have an individual portrait!
My back was agony after the shoot - I had to kneel on the floor with my body leaning kind of behind the reflector and one hand under the material holding Ethans head, and the other holding his bottom in place. 2 hours of that = not fun!
Zoe wanted a pic of all 4 kids, but Thomas and Euan weren't happy with that! Although the photographer did get one of Emily by herself. Since Thomas will stay still and pose for me, we did have a backup plan that I would take my camera along too and if he got fussy, I would pretend I was taking the pic! Yeah, it didn't happen! He will not have his picture taken by anyone else, and he knew I wasn't really taking a picture because I wouldn't show him the picture I had just taken! lol!
Zoe is getting all 7 pics (7 in 2 hours - that's it!) and the one of the twins wrapped in feather boas is being made big like the canvases I have of Tom & Emily - And she's giving it to me! I'm excited to get it, as I can't yet set the babies up outside and get a picture of them against a nice background because of the cold weather! I will definitely be getting them outside in summer though!
After the ordeal of the photographs, we went to the local pub/restraunt with an indoor soft play area. I've always wanted to take pics of the kids in the ball pool, but I've been afraid to because of all the other kids around! I'm a wierd like that and don't want anyone to think I'm photographing their kids.
The meal was nice, and afterwards we went to the play area for an hour! Just my luck that there was a kids party going on - so there were like 30 kids running round in there! Anyway, I dragged Emily into the toddler area (the kids party was full of 6-7 yr olds) and got her in the ball pool to get my picture! Tom was too busy using the curly slide in the big kids area! Next time, I'm getting a pic of Tom in the ball pool!
I've not really had a chance to sort through the pics yet, but I'll get there eventually! Here's a couple of the kids:
2 comments:
Hi Claire, taking pictures of little ones can sometimes be a nightmare i know having pictures done of my own children when they were young was i would get two smiling and one pulling a face LoL
you got some great pics of the kids here though, great blog i enjoy reading it,
love jayne x
Thanks, Jayne!
I visited again today and didn't take a single photograph! I plan on visiting again within the next couple of weeks...But today, I cuddled and kissed those kids like there was no tomorrow! And I played with the older two and tired myself out! Heh!
Claire x
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