Hug Twice

Alexa came down with a nasty cold the day after she turned one year old. Being that I seem to always be a day late and a dollar short with these types of things, I hadn’t scheduled her one year old portraits until a few days after she turned one, so I cancelled them to wait out the cold. Well, one thing led to another, and I didn’t reschedule them until weeks later, and they were scheduled for today.

Of course yesterday, she started coughing and sneezing and generally leaking gallons of snot. Sigh.

But if I didn’t do them now, who knows when they would get done. So, after monitoring her this morning and deciding she was up for the jaunt, we bundled up and headed out to do her pictures. We got there and found they were running 45 minutes behind, so I buckled her into a cart (it was Walmart we went to, after all) and we strolled the aisles for a while, played some games of peek-a-boo, and purchased some baby wipes.

When it was her turn, she was radiant. She smiled, she giggled, she posed, she acted adorable and bubbly and everything one could wish for a 13 month old child dressed in a puffy red velvet christmas dress and stockings with a frilly handmade headband on her head. Walmart however had a few tricks up their sleeve for me. When I had in the past had CJ’s portraits done there, I was able to buy a CD with the proofs of the pictures on it. No more. They don’t make that available, and so I cannot email proofs to the grandparents. And I only buy the cheap “advertised special” package, so I only get copies of the very first picture. Last year we had real professional portraits done of both kids (not in the budget this year… maybe next year) so I hadn’t been to Walmart for a while and didn’t know about the changes in policy. What do I expect though - it’s Walmart. Ugh. I get what I pay for.

Oh well. Maybe we’ll find some room in the budget to order a few more once these come in. I don’t know. I do know she was adorable.

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