What's a Mom to do?!!

So we have this serious business of trying to get 5 girls to stand still and pose for photos now. I thought that we were doing pretty good to generally get all of them looking at the camera most of the time. Then we added one more, plus one is now a tween and thinks she is too cool to smile....well, unless we are doing "goofy" photos. Then the tween wants to give me signs that her and her "dude" friend (which BTW is our neighbor girl) think are "da bomb!" Or they get really jazzy and give me the "too cool 4 you" pose looking like they are tweens going on 20-somethings!

Tessa has started showing her goofy side too. I knew that this was coming from the get-go. I had a funny feeling that having Mini-Mom ZoraLin to "show" her the ropes and tell her what to do....and let me tell you....until you have had Zora tell you what to do....you don't know Jack!! Well anyway...these photos are some of what we are dealing with right now. And with the holidays coming up soon...what's a Mom supposed to do to get them to take it seriously to all smile pretty and look at the camera all at the same time?!!! I should have also seen it coming when meek, shy, timid, Tessa jumps into the front of the carnival ride and smiles the WHOLE time her sisters are screaming! Yepper...we got ourselves a wild one!! Maybe with a little bit of clown on the side too!!!





Yes....they keep us in stitches! Ha!Ha!Ha!