I’d like you to meet some of my friends. This is little Gabriel and his lovely mother, Lucy. On a recent Sunday afternoon while enjoying the day with the J family, Lucy told me that she never gets pictures of Gabriel smiling. Every time she would get the camera out his smiles would disappear. This sounded like a fun challenge that I couldn’t possibly pass up, so out came my camera and an impromptu portrait session began.
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Isn’t he just adorable? We had so much fun getting him to smile.
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I think we got the smile pictures covered, don’t you?
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Being that cute really makes little babies tired….