We just got back from a vacation to see our grandsons that live far away. We took offspring #1 and her son as well. It was well intentioned. While we were there Offspring #1 thought it would be a great idea to take a "Father's Day" picture with all the boys and their Grandpa Extremo so we went about finding "Extremo" shirts for all the boys (and a new one for the Gramps too!) This is a nice picture. One grandbaby from each offspring.
The problem is there are 3 grandsons, not two. This picture looks pretty good too. If you look carefully you will see "Mommy" standing behind the baby, behind the Grandpa! But it looks good and after this fun activity, that's all that counts!
Here we are back to two grandsons. This is actually where we started. It was pretty easy getting these two to smile and stand for pictures. Grandson #1 had just turned 7 (it was his birthday trip actually) and Grandson #2 is almost 2 months shy of 3 years old.
The problem is the little one, aka Grandson #3. He is 2 months shy of turning 2. We were there when he was born and saw him again when he was a little over 3 months old, but really he doesn't know us from Adam. He is used to being with Mommy and Daddy and that is it. He was really curious about us and smiled from across the room alot but he didn't want anything to do with us close up. So getting him to sit on Grandpa Extremo's lap was a leap of faith for him. We took this picture really, really fast!
This is what the real shoot looked like, Grandson #3 was trying his darndest to get away and he is strooooong! But at least all three of the boys are in the picture!
This is where he was during most of the shoot. Where's Grandson #2? Oh, no. He escaped!
We found him behind the backdrop. We called it a day and went home. It was actually my favorite activity of the whole trip.
