My Sadie-girl

As I'm sure many of you know, getting pictures of a very active 2 yr old can be next to impossible. My baby-girl is no different and being a photographer it drives me crazy that I struggle so much with getting a nice picture of my daughter. I've practically given up on trying to do an actual "photo session" with her and have just managed to get some nicer snap shots here and there. However, last week I had a couple of ideas to coax my little one into being a model for me.

#1- I put her in a tree.

Now, when I was little, my parents gave me the nickname "Monkey-woman." I apparently loved to climb and there were stories of my climbing out of my crib, up in trees and up onto my bedroom window sill. They even got me a t-shirt with the name on it. Well, looks like my daughter has inherited not only my love of climbing but also the nickname.

She absolutely had a blast being in the tree and lovingly called it her "monkey tree."

#2- I bribed her with a lollipop (and a rather large one at that)

The child adores candy and especially lollipops. What more can you say?





One final note- the last photo session I did with her was back in Mar of 2008