Our BEAUTIFUL Babies (at 18 months and 3 years)

It's that time once again to take beautiful pictures of our happy, beautiful babies. Big 3-year-old Gabi was as smiley as could be, partly because that's the way she is and partly because she was bribed with "a huge gigantic pretzel." It turns out Ethan didn't care to be either happy or beautiful. After a FULL hour of 2 different photographers, sweaty parents, a couple rice cakes, and a whole lot of effort, we managed a few small Ethan smiles (with extra snot just for fun).

We started out with this angel:


And then this happened:

...Which lead to this:

Then we tried this:

And got this:

And FINALLY, we got this:

before

after