I can’t even talk about the backhouse.
For that matter, I can barely even type so gnarled and twisted are my fingers from all the scraping.
On Sunday, when P pulled out the camera and began taking pictures, Caroline had to get in on the picture-taking action. She picked up the camera and I agreed to let her take one picture of me.
This is what she shot.
Hello Paris Hilton. I think I have your safety goggles.
Caroline looked at the display window and said, “Oh! You look cute, Mama!”
I replied, “Thanks, babe!”
And then I returned to my own private scraping hell without thinking about the fact that she still had the precious camera in her hands. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I uploaded pictures and found this.
Apparently she is her own favorite subject.
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Love the fact that she tried out different facial expressions!
SP’s (self portraits), as my family refers to them, are way fun…but unfortunately for the peeps over twenty, also come in handy to lower one’s self esteem in a heartbeat. Ouch! Whatever ya do, don’t zoom in.
Very cute pics! Wait until she is a teenager, all my girls do is photograph themselves all with the same “kissy mouth” pose. It is hilarious. I can’t wait to show them at their weddings!
she is so cute! how do you handle that much “character” in your house? although, it seems you are a bit of a character yourself. LOL!
Too adorable. That happened to me once when my twin girls got ahold of the camera. We had close to 50 pictures on there between the two of them with every facial expression you can think of. I still have those pictures and love them.
I love that girl!
It must be the mom in me. My first thought was, oh lucky Melanie. Caroline’s teeth are so straight, she’s not going to have to fork over $8,000 to an orthodondist like most of us did.
Cute, cute. I just read the previous post. Oh my word, what a project. I know the scraping is necessary, but it would make me crazy. If you get this done in a month, you’ll be my hero.
I like that Caroline. She’s adorable.
It cracks me up when my kids do this, too. Unfortunately, I usually find the ones they’ve taken of my butt! Ugh, get that off the screen and who selected the zoom feature on the camera?! That one on the bike of Caroline is hilarious! She’s such a hoot!
reminds me of the day I picked up my cell to find no less than 30 pics of my youngest in various “gangster” poses, because NOTHING says gangster like a 10 yr old white boy from middle of nowhere PA.
Can’t you hire someone behind P’s back, and take the credit?
her favorite subject and excellent photo taking skills. i know adults that can’t pull off self portraits like that without it being a blurry mess or cutting off facial parts. Good job Caroline!
I love her shots. She is expressing her personality. Too funny yet again!
Just don’t let her have a MySpace just yet.
I absolutely love the pics of Caroline! She is so spunky and expressive! Good luck with the backhouse!
Those are great! Good luck with your scraping!
She takes great pictures of herself! Think of all the money you could save on professional pictures the next several years! My 5 yr-old and 3 yr-old got kid cameras for Christmas and it has been hilarious to cycle through their pics! Pictures of things like the dog food!
priceless.
that’s some mad skill to get the disney ladies on her bike centered right in front of her like that!
Cute! That last picture….LOL…adorable!
Your daughter is absolutely precious! You 2 crack me up!!
But mom – - – you only said take one picture of ME, you didn’t specify how many she could take of herself!!!
Ha ha! Funny enough, I let my 8-year-old daughter borrow my camera and ended up with a very similar series of “portraits of the artist,” as it were.
My boys do the same thing, take tons of pictures of themselves, along with their “action figures” in action poses and the TV so they can “remember that part in Zach and Cody…” it is hilarious!!!
She is adorable
My Bubbalu is already WAY too interested in the whole camera thing…he’s only 2!
LMHO…we are a picture taking group around here and our 5 y.o had been bugging me that he didnt like the baby camera santa brought last year he wanted his own real camera…
well as luck would have it when my sister upgraded her first digital camera she left the original here and told me it didnt work…i got to messing around with it and discovered it works fine if you put good batteries in it….
so i put a 1 gig SD card and some batteries and wahlah…he has a camera….
i pulled the SD card off it the other day to scan thru them….
oh my word…150 pictures of frame by frame scooby doo movies…like someone else mentioned so he didnt forget….um…hello? its your DVD kid…
steff
She is so precious…
We had the same sort of discovery after Christmas…our daughters and little nephew grabbed our camera..switched it to video setting and made movies. It was quite a surprise….and pretty much the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
How funny! My oldest son appears quite frequently on my camera and I’m not even sure when he gets it. She’s too cute!
Haha! You do look cute!
My little girl loves to do the self portrait thing too. So funny!
You can tell how long I’ve been away from kids and toys. I thought that was a Disney rolling pin.
Can’t you do some Tom Sawyer psychology and redirect all that energy into scraping and painting? I think that would involve pretending you’re having a good time though. Might be a tough order, come to think of it.
That’s hysterical! And the thing is – she’s right – you do look cute! No one has the right to look that sassy and put together doing crummy outdoor grunt work! Is your face excessively red? No. Do your goggles make you look like something out of Revenge of the Nerds? No. I’m hopelessly scary when it comes to the yucky outdoor jobs.
My girlies got hold of the camera yesterday afternoon and had a field day – it was my posting topic for today too!
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that cracks me up!!! haha!
ashley
Nothing’s scarier than finding the camera after your teen daughter’s been mugging for it. Hello? Who taught you that sultry pout, anyway?
The handle bar pad from the Princess Disney scooter was a nice accessory…..
I have WHOLE FILES of photos the girls have taken. It thrills me to no end to see 27 pics of the lamp, 14 pics of Girly-Girl’s feet, innumerrable blurry snaps of our fishtank, and videos of all manner of foolishness. On the plus side, one camera can keep the two girls busy for HOURS!
I love Caroline’s work
Hope you’re recovering from over use of under used muscles!! I’d be right there with you.for.sure.
That’s pretty funny- I’m so jealous of you all- sunshine and t-shirts. It’s been cloudy here forever and it’s freezing outside! Keep on scraping- you’ll get there one day.
This post was so great! My kids would have captured like the worst angle of me making it look like the camera added 30 pounds. You do look cute!
Becky
She is so funny and cute enough to get away with it!
How cute! Now she’s ready for a myspace account!
Oh my goodness. She makes me want to have a daughter!
She is just too cute! Remember the Friends where Chandler stayed home all day playhing video games and he had the “claw”.
Also, do you have any good recipes for wild birds as in quail, pheasant or chuckker? I have 80 in my freezer and so in desperation to clear out some space to make room for chicken nuggetts and fish sticks, I am having a Valentines dinner party. “wild hearts and wild game”
There may also be some deer bologna. I DO NOT even want to think about how that is made!
She is the funniest!!!!
Whenever my boys do this, I always get back some serious bootie shots. Uh huh.
sweet! she’s got her facebook photo now. :0)
Your daughter is HILARIOUS! I have a 4 1/2 year old…your Caroline and my Gracie are two peas in a pod!
You know, the saying “Like mother, like daughter” springs to mind when I read your blog!
Tania
Had to laugh, this happens all the time at my place!
Naise
Awww…she is so adorable!!! My daughter does the same thing…I bought her a camera for Christmas (she is 13) and it came with a 2GB memory card, I looked at it the other day, and there were about 1GB of pictures very similar to the ones you just posted!! hehee…girls are pretty much the same whether they are “big girls” or teenagers!
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