How to get a perfect picture of three monkeys

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I’m thinking it is super-fabulous, but not what I originally intended. I had visions of a beautiful picture – three monkeys lined up on a bench, all wearing their monkey hats, all smiling for the camera.

The photo shoot didn’t go that way.

Why, oh, why do I even delude myself that they will? I mean seriously – three monkeys perform for the camera at the same time??!!! That’s why I so appreciated my friend Christi’s Christmas card. A beautiful dose of the reality any parent with more than one child faces.

Today it started like this:

And then went straight to this:

Which at that point I snapped, forgot I was talking to Monkey See and totaly lost it with him. So as my just reward I got this:

And then when I asked for a smile, I got this:

And then when I asked for a real smile, I got this while he told me, “I am smiling. I really, truly am!”

And then I wised up and remembered how to get real smile out of him.

Step one: Let him make goofy faces.

Step two: Ask for a real smile.

That’s it. Easy-peasy, as they say.

The other monkeys are a bit easier to work with.

Monkey Do likes to goof around too. His biggest flaw is that he moves so quickly it’s hard to get a crisp shot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I did manage to catch one or two.

This was Monkey Three’s first outdoor photo shoot. He did a good job considering he was hungry and tired (a fact I remembered once we got back to the car – poor neglected third child!)

He chewed on a pretzel for the first half of the pictures…

…and was kind of bummed when I took it from him, so I switched views

But he calmed down and though he never smiled – he was sweet.

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