Crazy Life of the Wheelers!

The name of Kimberly Wheelers blog is "Crazy Life of the Wheelers" (See link on right menu) and she wasn't kidding when she named it that! Kimberly is a great friend of mine from college, we go way back. She has me beat in the children department, she now has FOUR children age 3 years and YOUNGER. Can you believe that!  Now, my dad was one of 9 children and I am one of 50+ grandchildren... so I am used to large families... But I don't know how in the world Kimberly and her husband Lonnie still have their sanity with so many that are SOOO young! Haha!

The goal of the day: To get all 3 older kidlets to sit in a chair and looking at the camera. Yeah right! It was all we could do to keep them from screeeeaming! At one point my photographer friend Gregg walked in. The song "Itsy Bitsy Spider" was blaring over the speakers,  3 kids were crying and screaming (Hudson could win an award for his scream) and yet another baby was on the couch. I think I saw Gregg's face drain of all color as he walked in to the studio... And he promptly turned around, and walked right back out! Let's just say Gregg won't be photographing kids anytime soon.

Anywho, we actually managed to get a few photos of them looking AT the camera and SITTING in a chair. For those of you that haven't ever tried to photograph children, it might be easier to get a giraffe to do a headstand. Next time we might actually try to get them to smile while we are at it... but first things first! And Kim, I totally think we should make this an annual event. It would be fun to do the same shot every year as the kids get bigger!

P.S. Hudson (the oldest) is in the process of learning to dress himself. Check out those shoes, that must have been really comfortable!!  Not!

PPS.. Kimberly is also an AMAZING artist, she does custom children's paintings for their rooms. Check out her paintings and cute cute work in the link to the right "Small Words Blog" :)

This is what most of the shots looked like:

We actually got one of them ALL sitting still!!!!

Hudson and his shoes...