We liked our photos shot by Kari Flores last year so much that I’d booked her again for this year. We did the shoot on Sunday in San Juan Capistrano’s historic Los Rios old town district. Allie was more temperamental than she was last year, since she’ll now exert her will just to assert her will, even if her true intentions are in line with ours. So when we asked her to smile, she said “no.” Just because she wanted to say no. Even when we make her laugh, she’ll clamp down on her lips and try hard to keep a straight face. Just because she’d previously told us she doesn’t want to smile for us. But she giggled up a storm in the car on the way back, and then declared to her dada, “Allie’s happy.”

Kari sent this “teaser” yesterday. It makes me hopeful that we have some smiley photos in the mix. 🙂

Bet you can’t tell I spent 40 minutes curling my hair that morning with a curling iron.