The 18 month photo session has been the fastest one to date. It was late afternoon and we just brought Avery inside from the backyard where she was keeping busy.
She helped Going Mom with the veggie garden.
And by help, I mean rearrange the labels, or just pull them out and throw them on the ground.
Then she just roamed the yard like the little giraffe she is, falling over her own feet every now and then and getting right back up to go again.
We finally brought the wild animal our daughter inside where Kelley cleaned her hooves hands and told her it was time for her monthly photo session. I can’t tell if she liked this or not. What do you think?
Let’s just go with saying she was excited. I mean, she even helped get her bear in the chair and held him back for the best pose of the shoot.
Apparently, the bear and Avery exchanged words that didn’t quite agree with our little giraffe princess. As you can see, she was giving him a pretty hard stare-down for whatever it was he said or did.
Things only escalated from there and her bear was ejected from the chair.
The bear was replaced with a book and a bow. She’s become more interested in actually “reading” books and doesn’t try to eat them as often anymore.
Bows are a different story. Much like her refusal to wear them during her 17 month photo session, she rejected them this time too.
Fine with me, I’m not a fan of bows, but my wife is adamant about getting her to keep them on. I’m just excited about ponytails when her hair gets longer! Pony tails have always been my favorite way for girls to wear their hair, so I hope Avery is accepting when the time comes.
Until then, I guess we just put her in hats. She seemed okay with the one Kelley put on her head and even posed for the camera.
Be honest, would you say this kid looks like a girl if you didn’t know? I’m not ashamed at all since I fully support gender neutral ways, but c’mon, she’s pretty boyish here. We try to limit the amount of pink she is surrounded with, and I’d say we are doing a great job going off this pic!
I can’t believe how much our girl is growing and know there are many fun times ahead. Even better that my butt is almost fully healed and I’m close to being able to sit down without discomfort. No more reading hunched over, yay!
Are you a fan of gender neutral parenting or prefer pink for girls and blue for boys?
Any tips on ponytails you care to share for when Avery’s hair gets longer?
Ponytails are a piece of cake, it’s combing her hair and want to pull her around cave man style when she whines and complains that will test your patience. Also if you are growing any tomato plants a great photo idea is took take pictures of Avery in front of them every couple of weeks to show how big she and HOPEFULLY your tomato plants are getting. I used to do it with Sloane when I grew big gardens.
That’s a cool idea with the tomato plants. We aren’t growing them, but maybe we will now. I’ll let you know once my patience has been tested with the hair thing…. 🙂