What's a Mom To Do..??

What's a mom to do when a photo shoot doesn't go quite as planned and smiles were few and far between??

Take your own pictures!

With as many pictures as I take (daily, non stop... ALWAYS!) it should come as no surprise to anyone that I just HAD to try my hand at getting some smiles captured with our real camera for Grant's half birthday.  With Valentine's Day being just 3 days before he turned 6 months, I took the opportunity to continue the heart theme at home.  

Luckily for me (and you ;) I'm stubborn.  It took THREE separate sessions (in one day) to get pictures I was finally satisfied with.. This BOY!! I swear..lol.

Thankfully though, I caught it.  FINALLY.  The perfect smile.  That cheesy grin.  That sideways glance.  It is everything.

The whole series of photos can probably do with some color editing and all that mess...but lets be real here.  Who has time for that?!

 

Grant's 6 Month Professional Photo Shoot

As we did for Everleigh when she turned 6 months old, we enlisted a professional to help capture this time in his life and celebrate our bear's half birthday.  Unfortunately, our normally SUPER smiley Mr. Man wasn't so smiley no matter how goofy and silly we made ourselves look to all the people passing by .. Booooo..Hisssss..

I'm honestly not surprised though.  Everleigh was the exact same way for her 6 month shoot.  I swear our two bears are already devising ways to make us nuts.  ;)  Haha.. 

Thankfully, we did get a handful of sweet looks and if I must say myself, his "SERIOUS" face is pretty darn cute too.  

Now.. on with the show.  

Grant Henry Kelley - 5 Months

Only 3 weeks late this time! Goooo ME!  Is it sad that I feel pretty dang proud of that fact?  Poor 2nd child.  

Once again, without further ado...Here's our sweet handsome bear, who turned 5 months on January 11th :) 

Grant Henry Kelley - 4 Months

I think it's fairly safe to say that I'll be running a bit late on these posts every month.  :)  My REALISTIC goal these days is simply to get it posted before the next month hits.  I've been good about taking the actual pictures on the 11th of every month (so far).. to show his true size at the right time...it's the actual POSTING to the blog that I've been having problems keeping up with.  :)  Needless to say life has been hectic since adding a second bear to our pack.  So without further ado..

I'm also hoping to add a post about our Kelley / Maldonado family Christmas this year so stay tuned. :)  

Until then.. here's our very HANDSOME bear Grant at 4 months.  

To see Grant's other monthly posts (and to see how our bear is chunking up)... click on the links below.

Grant Henry Kelley - 1 Month and Counting

Grant Henry Kelley - 2 Months and Counting

Grant Henry Kelley - 3 Months and Counting