{"id":781,"date":"2008-09-19T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2008-09-18T22:19:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T05:19:27","slug":"smile-are-over-rated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Smiles Are Over Rated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this household, there hasn’t been a ton of smiling little happy faces for the last two weeks.?? In fact, Tori is pretty darn sick today with the flu.?? Like Ty, she is getting progressively worse.?? Thankfully Ty seems to be over it.?? No hives break out today.?? She has been borderline lethargic a few times and sleeping on my lap a lot.?? She is finally playing a bit right now and enjoying her Daddy and brothers.?? But as you can see from the above, I was really pushing it to even ATTEMPT pictures of the three of them yesterday.?? I knew when I did it that the outcome was likely to be comical.?? She told me NO about as loudly as she knew how.?? The boys were not particularly helpful either.?? But you know what….smiles really are over rated.?? The more I do this photography thing, the more I realize as a photographer and as a mother, smiles aren’t really what I am after.?? I want to capture THEM.?? Ty…well it’s hard not to get good smiling pictures of him because he is about the happiest little guy I know.?? Tanner and Tori though…they are just more serious little people.?? It’s who they are.?? So often I get serious little expressions on their faces and my mama heart flutters because I “see” them.?? That’s what I really want out of this.?? I also like to capture??some mad faces, and angry ones, and sad ones, and pouting ones as well.?? Same reason.?? All their many expressions are precious and aiming for just the smiles makes me miss too much.?? I guess I am appreciating photojournalism more and more because I like to see them in their element.?? It’s real.???? The picture above probably won’t make it above the mantel hee hee, however, it’s a pretty darn good summary of the day.?? Tanner’s smile is totally false and he isn’t looking at me. Tori is madder than a hornet.?? She wants mama and she wants her NOW.?? Ty is trying to remember what a smile looks like.?? He actually asked me that and then told me “I just don’t remember how. Is this a smile?”?? Let’s look at a few more shall we?<\/p>\n

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Tanner is being very real.???? Tori wants to know why Ty isn’t paying attention and smiling and Ty is concentrating on remembering what a smile looks like.?? He is also thinking about all the things he wishes he were doing as opposed to taking pictures.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes it takes mom to differentiate between a real and fake smile.?? This one is real.?? I really “see” my son in this picture.<\/p>\n

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Ultra genuine.?? I see this smile every day of my life.?? Even on sick days.?? I actually had to clone hives out of Ty’s forehead for these pictures.<\/p>\n

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Those big kid teeth sure make him look older.<\/p>\n

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Ty’s bored expression.?? Can’t help it – I really love this picture.?? Just makes me giggle.<\/p>\n

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Now Tanner’s bored.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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LOL.?? I’d call this border line exasperated.<\/p>\n

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Well…I didn’t get one single decent one of all 3 of them together but there wasn’t much chance of that this week anyhow.?? But…I must admit to enjoying the end result.??<\/p>\n

I am getting into the habit of saving more “out takes”.?? I have got some funny ones.?? Sometime I will post the petti skirt out takes with the boys.?? Funny.?? I also have one from July of Tori actually spitting up during a photo shoot.?? Not sure you want to see that but my timing was perfect.?? It was funny.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Note to Shayla who can’t receive email at the moment:?? I’ll talk to Susie and we’ll work that out then I’ll text you.?? Not sure we’ll get “AMAZING” pictures in a 30?? minute mini shoot – frankly I have no idea how feasible this idea is to begin with.?? Thought I’d at least give it a try though just for fun.?? We must have a threesome pictures of the NICU buddies for sure.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this household, there hasn’t been a ton of smiling little happy faces for the last two weeks.?? In fact, Tori is pretty darn sick today with the flu.?? Like Ty, she is getting progressively worse.?? Thankfully Ty seems to be over it.?? No hives break out today.?? She has been borderline lethargic a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}