The Sparkly Herpes of Planet Earth
There is definitely an inverse relationship between the number of photographs I take for other people and the number I take of my own family. Let's just say life has been SUPER full lately because, uh, yeah. There aren't nearly as many photos of Alexis from the past summer as there probably should be.
And there certainly aren't any "planned" photos, which is to say that other than the daisy photos, there was never a point when Alexis purposely made her wardrobe choices for a photo and then posed. She generally doesn't do the whole plan-and-pose thing for me anyway, so unless I want to pay someone else to take photos of her while I stare angrily at my $$$$$$$ camera equipment, it isn't happening.
Unless I bribe her.
I'm sorry if you can't bribe your kid with a trip to the library. It really is the greatest thing ever because FREE. And EASY.
Besides promising a trip to the library, I also bribed Alexis with promises of a fancy outfit.
And by "fancy" I meant that I planned to make her a tutu. She mentioned that she wanted a new one a few months ago. When I brought it up and asked her to tell me which colors and such, she got REALLY excited. Pink! With sparkles!
So, which one of you told her that there is such a thing as tulle with glitter all over it? Because it wasn't me. I didn't take Alexis to the craft store with me. She made the WITH SPARKLES! declaration from our driveway while in the midst of spraying herself in the face with the hose.
I obliged, but IT HURT. Real pain. It was all about the bribery.
Have you ever dealt with glittery tulle? It's a very special circle of hell where little tiny pieces of glitter have a giant glitter orgy all over some fabric. It leads to baby glitter pieces and MORE BABY GLITTER PIECES AND ALL OF THE GLITTER IN THE WORLD OMG. I don't know how it is possible that there is so very much glitter crammed onto some fabric.
The night that I made the tutu, it looked like a unicorn had blown up in our living room. There was SO MUCH GLITTER EVERYWHERE. It was all over me, all over our couch, all over absolutely every surface. To make matters even more awesome, Kiara the kitten decided it would be SUPER fun to lay on the finished tutu, thereby coating herself in glitter. She then went running all over the house like a tiny exploding glitter gun. BAM! Glitter over there! BAM! Glitter over here!
A week later, there is still glitter EVERYWHERE. You can follow the trail from the couch all through the basement and upstairs and OH, YEAH. It's in my car, too. There is no way to transport a glittery tutu to a photo shoot other than to put it in your car and WOW DID THAT END BADLY.
So much glitter.
Everywhere.
But. BUT. She who does not do the plan-and-pose thing only tried to get out of our agreement for 2.9 seconds. After that, she put on the tutu and she rocked that tutu and she made me take about ten times as many photos as I had planned.
So if you see me looking at glitter and smiling, now you know. It's not that I've completely lost my mind. It's that sometimes plans come together and sometimes Alexis has fun doing something I was hoping she would have fun doing. And ... glitter. It's pretty awesome sometimes.
(When it's not in my house.)
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Reader Comments (7)
The tutu is amazing and holy hells bells when did she grow up? I love her style.
I swear that my daughter sweats glitter - I don't know where it all comes from!!!!
alexis looks stunning. So very beautiful she is. I would love one of the photos for my alexis book. nana loves her
awesome! my favorite park and my favorite place to shoot pictures in a tutu!!! And i've had that glitter bomb in my house, and I have a closet of those tutus...they're awesome. And how does your tiny footed ballerina not own a pair of pink sparkle toms yet?? They seem right up her alley...and leave glitter everywhere the first couple weeks. Perfect easy on/off shoes for dance you know!
Beautiful photos, Mom. I continue to be amazed at how grown up she looks! :)
Beautiful
i'm in the midst of a really, really rough week. when i needed a break i came here. you and alexis and words and images made my day beyond better. i love this post so hard. thanks for sharing.
also, was this adventure at mellon park? looks exactly where i grew up. my frog obsession started there with a cement frog.
:)
Beautiful! Both Alexis and the pictures.