I thought it would be nice for you to get your "quad fix" today by pulling up the blog and finding a sweet picture of the babies in their matching outfits with beautiful smiles and angelic behavior. I'll start by saying that isn't at all what you will find, not today.
It has been a while since I have tried to take a group picture of them by myself. I dressed them, took time to gather Baxlyn's 9 hairs into a little ponytail, grabbed my camera and proceeded to sit them up in a line on the couch like I always have before... clearly they weren't interested in taking a group picture...
(you may notice Kylee only has one ponytail in these pics. She is able to reach up with her right hand, pull out, and eat her other one so this may be her new look until she learns that's a "no-no")
I knew I had to "contain" them somehow if this group picture thing was gonna work, soooo my idea??? Put them all in one crib!
This first shot gave me hope, all I had to do was get Baxlyn to stand next to Kylee and look at me...
Of course that didn't happen. It wasn't a minute later and you would have thought I had caged 4 wild animals...
There was bow stealing...
...nose smashing...
...snot flinging...
...no good fun goin' on in there!
Clearly, the crib was NOT the way to go, so I carried them one by one back out to the living room for my next idea - GRADUATES PUFFS!
I knew this would be a long shot, but I was desperate, so I stood them all up at the couch and threw out the fruit puffs like chicken feed across the couch and let em' go at it...
Thought this was a cute one from the back. BTW are my babies the only ones who get diaper wedgies???
Despite my obnoxious animal noises (that I would never do in public) I couldn't get them all to look at the camera at the same time...
every once in a while I would loose one...
Then all of a sudden TA-DAH! they all looked!! Not one smile, but all 8 eyes looked at the same time, what more could I ask for!!!!
After 92 pics, I finally had one I was "OK" with. I set them all down on the floor and they managed to give me one more group pic - the boys even threw in a smile :)
Needless to say our photo shoot wore them out and they are all sleeping like rocks now! Hope you all have a great St. Patrick's Day!
