Posted on August 15, 2008
Kate has become quite an expert on cheesin’ it up for the camera. I bring it out and she happily shows her pearly whites and expresses the most fake, yet completely adorable smile. The thing I love most about it is that it highlights her little extra dimple that is just to the right of her chin. I call that dimple her “bonus surprise dimple” I didn’t even KNOW she had it until she was about 4 months old and she happened to make her very first classic cheesy smile for me. I was so excited about it!! I’m a HUGE dimple fan, can you tell??? I love that I get to capture that precious dimple all the time now!
The one little thing about her classic cheesy smile is that it doesn’t last forever. I imagine this is maybe what goes on in her mind when she sees me break out my camera, “Oh I see mom has the camera! Okay, time to perform! Tilt head, look right at the camera, say “CHEESE!” Okay wait…she took the photo…why is she still clicking away? Well I guess I need to keep this smile up, but gosh it’s getting old. I’d really like her to stop so I can get back to playing”. So while it’s a precious smile and I COMPLETELY appreciate her hamming it up, I do have to be QUICK, cause the smile’s lifespan is very short. This is the first time I caught a series of photos that captures the fading smile SOOO well. It was dropping literally by the second. I even looked up the camera data and recorded the time differences between these three photos…check out the time differences! Thankful for this lightening quick camera I have! (And I’ll go ahead and give props once again to David for surprising me with it!)
