Photo Shoot

A few weeks ago we took the girls to have some pictures taken. Big sister needed a good "head shot" for an event she's participating in, and Kimmie, well, we wanted some good pictures of her. She's a hard one to photograph and it had been a long time since she'd taken a really good school picture. Plus, she's considered a senior this year, so we really needed to get some senior pictures taken. She'll be a senior again next year, too.

I picked the studio because they do a lot of photos of babies and small children hoping they would be able to deal with Kimmie.

Kimmie did amazingly well, in spite of wanting to play with all their props. I was moving from one side of the room to the other trying to get her to look or sit or stand facing this way or that way. The photographer had to be quick to get a few shots taken before she was off to investigate some other prop she'd spotted and wanted to check out.

But all in all we were able to get some very good pictures of her. Whew!

At one point she spotted a football. She grabbed it up, tucked it under her right arm, stuck out her left arm and ran across the room, just like she does at home whenever we watch football. The photographer's face lit up and he says, "I have a football background."

We laughed and said, "Sure, that would be fine."

He pulled it down and mumbled something about her not be dressed for it. We just laughed and said, "That's ok. It just adds to the incongruity of her playing football."


Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Football Season!

--Mom

PS: For more on her football moves, read December 11, 2009 post entitled "Football."

Cute

A few weeks ago I was picking Kimmie up after Sunday School. The teachers in her class were laughing. They said they asked her if she knew she was cute. Kimmie shook her head yes. That struck them really funny, that Kimmie agreed she was cute.

It's actually a family joke.

Big sister has this conversation regularly with Kimmie.

Bethany: "Are you cute?" (Imagine exaggerated inflection.)

Kimmie: "Yes."

Bethany laughing.

We've been telling her she's cute for 19 years. She has no reason to think otherwise. Yes, she knows she's cute!

--Mom

Ambulance

For a year now we have been hearing about the hospital, sleeping in the hospital bed, the brown medicine the doctor put on her back, and the dreaded blood pressure cuff.

Well, now Kimmie has something new to talk about. Riding in the ambulance "car" . . . to the hospital . . .on the bed. Oh, and the dreaded blood pressure cuff.

I think the fact that she effectively fought off the blood pressure cuff convinced the EMS guys that she was fine.

At least it is something different, well sort of, and new to talk about.

--Mom