Karina and Elsa

Today Lee and I took Karina and Elsa to have their picture taken for a surprise Christmas gift for Grandma Mary and Opa. I think we almost made the photographer cry when we told her that her subjects to be photographed were 3 months and 10 months old. Although it was about 500 degrees in the room, and Karina was so stressed out that she kept her little hands balled up into fists for the entire photo shoot, Elsa smiled a lot and we managed to get some memorable pictures anyway. If you notice that the photo resolution is terrible, it's because we didn't buy the CD from the portrait studio...these are the cheap poor quality copies they give you for free.

If you look closely you'll observe that they are mirroring each other exactly, with opposite head tilts, pointing hands and balled-up fist hands.

Here are some of Karina's individual poses. She just wouldn't smile...not like her at all...so we finally gave up and tried to shoot some "serious" shots...the ones in the pink dress. Some of them turned out kind of neat.