how do you get 9 toddlers to sit still?
Posted by laralynnian on 12 Nov 2008 at 09:40 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized
With food, of course! (And apologies to Krista for subconsciously taking your blog post title – it’s just too appropriate.) A couple weeks ago our play/moms group decided to do a repeat performance of last October’s photo shoot at Sears.
At that time not a single baby was sitting up solo, which meant the coolest shot ever was of all of them lying on their backs in a circle, 10 little heads facing inward. (See below.)
In a full year we’ve only lost one (ok two – baby and mom) member of our group. Very cool. But the kiddos are all incredibly mobile now, so instead of Sears we decided to do the photo shoot at a local park. For two hours the kids played and the photographer photographed.
Towards the end we decided to organize and put all nine toddlers (ages 16-17 months) on a bench for the official group shot. Melia’s daddy Ryan took some funny video (scroll to the bottom of the post) of how this all went down. I’m still amazed we got them all quiet and still for even a few minutes. Annie’s Bunny Love cereal and goldfish to the rescue!
I’m a little disappointed that the photog didn’t seem to spend much time on Meli. (It’s the mama bear in me, I’m sure.) We didn’t get many super-smiley shots of our super-smiley girl. But there were a few sweet ones, and I’ve posted them here. Enjoy.
And take a look at how much all the kids have changed since last October’s circle shot. By complete coincidence, Melina is between the same two kids she was a year ago. Can’t you tell?