elephants and granola

So a couple weekends ago we went and did a family photo shoot with Micah (who did Grayson's awesome 1year photos). We decided to meet up in Bebenhausen at the monastery. It's just beautiful there and everything was green and the weather was perfect - which I was totally nervous about considering it had been pouring the few days before Saturday.

Grayson had done so well at his One Year photo session, that I wasn't even worried about him. Mayer, on the other hand, I told before we left house, he was to do whatever Micah asked him to do and if he listened to her there would be ice cream and wii in his future. And yes, bribing is completely necessary in a situation like this. I scheduled this appointment back in January and Micah and her family are heading back to the states this summer, so I booked one of the last Saturdays in her books and there was no rescheduling.....bribing was essential!

Back to the photos....we started off strong. Everyone was all smiles and being fantastic. After we decided to change spots all hell broke loose. Grayson began screaming and continued screaming until the last 30 minutes of our 2 hour session. And Mayer decided he was "done being in this picture" and would just run off to play with the cannons or the rocks or the flowers. All I needed was for a butterfly to go by and he would have been gone after that. Finally, I just let Grayson work out his issues and he cried for a few minutes and I gave him a granola bar and he was good. The bad part was that no one could take the granola bar away from him. I won't tell you which pictures feature him and the granola bar but they're there. Some pictures, that didn't make the cut, feature him holding a elephant puppet and the granola bar. And just in case this morning wasn't a challenge enough, Mayer decided to slide into a patch of weeds as we were walking back to the car....little did we know he is highly allergic to the weeds and broke out in hives within minutes of touching the stuff.

Kudos to Micah for getting some really great pictures of us....she earned her sitting fee on that day.

Here is the link to the pictures, you may have to register with your email to access it: http://www.pictage.com/1039764 

I think next year will just be the boys....after they have had a snack and a nap!