Taking pictures of babies

is something else I like to do. I have mentioned before that I like taking pictures of flowers and stuff, but I also like taking pictures of babies (I have a gazillion and one pictures of Aaron to prove it!). They are so natural and unposed and if you keep snapping your camera long enough, you're bound to get a cute one or two. Like this:

I babysat Mya the other day so Sue and Patrick could do some shopping, and as she played at my coffee table, I just snapped pictures. Here's the original:

And sometimes you get some that are just cute--not cute-cute--just cute:


(I might need to adjust the color in this one--I don't like her skin tone...)

They don't all turn out to be gems, of course...

I also took some pictures of her as we ate dinner at the Mexican restaraunt the night we took the kids to see Santa:

Again, here are the originals (in no particular order):

Never in a million years would I be able to get Hannah and Emily to smile so cute--they're too posed, too cheesy right now.

And since this seems to be a post about Mya, it's only befitting to end with a picture of her with her parents:

Happy picture taking!