Thank you and Good night

The Living and Loving Magazine is doing a feature on Mommy Bloggers for their May edition and Tanya Kovarsky, their Editor, kindly asked if I would participate.  (I suspect my friend Tertia paid her, but that’s another story)

I haven’t been on a photoshoot in, well, ever.  Unless you count my wedding pictures, but those were in a Kir Royale induced blur.  My jaw still hurts from all that smiling, 10 years later.

I went by myself with the kids as my Mom’s away and Etienne was working.  I was a little very nervous about not having anyone with me, but they were absolutely AWESOME.  Yes they were extremely loud and energetic and ran around like mad, but they didn’t argue with each other (or me!) once.  There was a little moment when the photographer was busy when Mignon was not keen on sitting on her chair, but we managed to smooth that out.

Here they are before they were all dressed up:

Check how dirty Isabel’s feet are, we had to wash those before getting dressed..

When the stylist put Mignon and Isabel’s outfits out I said, and I quote: “put down the two outfits and back away slowly” Which she promptly did and the girls chose an outfit each and were very happy with what they were wearing.  There were also the most delightful little pink pumps, Mignon now keeps asking for ballet shoes.  Sigh.

Daniel was The Man.  He smiled and laughed and posed like there was no tomorrow, he kept everyone entertained!  He was wearing a really cool outfit, in fact we all looked like a gazillion bucks.

It was great to have someone else do my make-up and fuss over beads of sweat and hair that ‘minced’ in the heat.  I could seriously get used to it.  I wish.

And here is Isabel about 15 seconds after we hit the road:

A big big thank you to the team that made us look so pretty and took such great pics today, we felt very special!  Oh, and please just photoshop out at least a couple of my chins please?  Ta.