This led to the idea that I might do a photo like those 'baby in a suit' ones, but with big kid clothes, instead of a suit. I don't know where I'd find a suit.
So, I collected a 6 month old baby, a shirt sized for a 7yo, a pair of pants for a 10yo, and my phone, and headed for my bed to lay the photo out.
I put the baby in the shirt. I am not sure if the normal method in the suit pictures is to put the baby in the shirt or lay it over him, but I was putting the oversized shirt on him anyway, at least until I could locate a smaller one, so I just did.
In a suit, the shirt would presumably have covered his feet, and I could have just placed the pants on the bed below. This shirt did not cover the baby's feet, so I tucked his legs into the pants.
Okay, so far, so good. But then he started moving.
Which quickly proceeded into pants-eating.
I got the pants flat, and snapped a quick shot, but he was distracted and wouldn't look at me.
Ideally, at this point, I would have started the process of taking 8-12 photos in a row, adjusting my angle, calling his name, moving to different places, in hopes of catching one in which he was looking at me (maybe even smiling), not moving and blurry, and with a good angle and lighting.
Alas, it was not to be. Before my phone could adjust for the second shot, he was gone, back-crawling right out of the pants.
Doing the awkward roll-over:
Hi, Mom.
Oh, look, a book. That looks way more interesting than those pants.
So, baby-in-a-suit was not to be, nor was baby-in-big-kid-clothing. Maybe a different day.
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