After Atticus’ blessing, a lady came up to me to talk about how cute he was. This by itself was nothing out of the ordinary. Excuse me while I brag, but strangers are constantly stopping me to comment on my beautiful baby. I can’t get through Target without getting stopped in every other aisle, and the other day at Rubio’s a lady got out of line to come and gaze upon my perfect child for awhile. For a minute or two there in the hospital I honestly wondered if I was going to have a homely kid. His poor little face was so swollen and distorted, I really thought he was going to end up with some random genetic combination that left him totally weird looking. It turned out to be quite a pleasant surprise that he’s so darn cute.
Anyhoo, this particular lady is launching a clothing line and a website and she wanted to use my little guy as a model for her newborn layettes. We went for the shoot a few days later and I just got the pictures back.
He was such a little stinker through most of it. We had to keep catching shots in between cries. Then I mentioned to the photographer that I still needed to send out his birth announcements and she decided we needed to strip him down and get some nekkid shots. As soon as we took that diaper off, we didn’t hear another peep out of him. I think somebody likes public nudity.
We got some really really cute shots, and one I’ll definitely be using on his birth announcements. If I can figure out how I’m going to do them without photoshop.