JC Penny Photo Shoot

Yay! I had the greatest idea for Father's Day. Pictures of the boys taken by someone other than me! We've never had pictures taken professionally of either kid, so I took the plunge and went with a friend to JC Penny last week. I had planned this for over a month and been shopping to find something for the boys to wear. Well, I had quite the adventure that I will tell at the end of the post (a quick version, I promise). Here are some of the pictures taken of the boys! They were too cute to not share! (By the way, Tyler found out about the pictures, so my present is ruined).








So a quick version of the adventure at the mall. I had a later appointment (way too close to nap time). After the pictures were taken (which wasn't that great of an experience anyway), we had to wait about 15 minutes, so we took Cameron upstairs to ride the carousel. Well, a huge tantrum started because he didn't ride the horses (only because he didn't want to and then when we were leaving, he suddenly wanted to). That was the end of our somewhat fun excursion. Cameron threw the biggest tantrum I have ever seen anyone throw. We were trying to get back downstairs to pick out our pictures (my, my friend Alison and her little boy Preston, Isaac, and Cameron dragging behind). He was rolling on the floor screaming his head off. I tried talking and reasoning with him, but he screamed and cried and I couldn't even hold him becaue he was flailing his body all around and kicking (I had a stroller to push and so did my friend). So we made it to JC Penny but we still had to get downstairs. The elevator was broken and we couldn't take strollers on the escalator with Cameron, the way he was acting. So we just resorted to letting him scream it out (by this point, it had been like 20 minutes or so of straight screaming and if you've ever heard Cameron cry, he is NOT quiet)! We felt so hopeless because we had tried EVERYTHING! And I couldn't leave, because I had a coupon for the pictures and if I didn't use it right then, the pictures would have been like four times the price! Anyway, I ended up having two old cranky ladies tell me that I needed to get him out of there or shut him up because one of them had some anneurysm and it was "just killing her." They were all mad at me because I was letting him scream. After having a not very nice discussion with both of them, my friend told me she'd watch Isaac and I took Cameron out of the doors (just in between the two sets of doors that go outside), and we both sat there bawling. He was still rolling all over going crazy. Finally, there was one Christ-like man that came to help calm Cameron down. By this point, it had been probably 40 minutes before he stopped freaking out! AHH! Anyway, I got him home eventually, and he threw the same tantrum when I tried to put him in bed (he had fallen asleep on the way home and woke up and didn't want to go to bed). It was a miserable experience! I will never do it without Tyler again! I'm just glad both kids came out alive (with Isaac being pushed over by Cameron during the photo shoot several times and Cameron acting crazy during and after the photo shoot). Anyway, that wasn't too short, but I tried... I'm trying not to have bitter feelings toward the anneurym lady. She wasn't nice and neither was the other old lady. Oh well! Look at the cute pics we got from that horrendous event though!