Say cheese!

Disclaimer : DN did not learn this from us. I repeat, DN did NOT learn this from us.

I thought I'd better put that up there first, lest you think PF and I pose like camwhoring teenage girls named Apple and Prada who shout "Kawai-ne!" at each other in encouragement.

Recently, DN has been brandishing the V-sign whenever we take photographs of him. Very amusing. Sometimes his V-signs look like rabbit ears...

 

... sometimes it looks like he's pressing a pimple...

... sometimes he gets others in on the act...

... sometimes it looks like he's making a bad sign - in New York...

... and London...

... but almost all of the time, his fingers are pressed right next to his temple and, if I may biasedly say, he looks rather cute! 

 Everyone, meet Gucci Ong.

How do you spell "narcissistic"? (Part II)

Here are 16 more photos! ;)

How do you spell "narcissistic"?

J-U-N-E and P-E-R-N-G-F-E-Y!

When DN turned 1, we decided to get some photos taken professionally. I trawled the Motherhood forum and finally decided to go with these guys - Funshotz. The package was reasonable, the girl seemed nice and we liked their style.

It turned out to be a good choice because the photos turned out nice and we actually had a fun time! The shoot was scheduled to last 2 hours. It's not long if you're an adult, but it's a real stretch if you're 1 year old. Trust me. To make sure DN would cooperate during the shoot, (tsk, tsk, these divas!) we booked a 12.30pm slot and made sure DN had a lonnnnng nap in the morning. Thankfully he slept well and woke up at the right time. We were only 5 minutes late! Not bad!

And DN was in his element! He was happy, laughing, walking all over the place, pulling things down, trying to climb up a ladder, touch the camera, basically being a little monkey. He enjoyed having 5 adults fawn over him. (2 parents, 1 photographer, 2 assistants... who don't want? Heh.) Halfway through, we took a porridge break and everyone had a chance to rest their legs and voices. (There was lots of jumping, singing and dancing on our part.)

Of course, DN didn't pose for any of the photos. They were all taken as he was walking to the toys / books / rocking horse / the photographer / us, so what you see are really pictures of him IN MOTION. Haha. Even picture number 1. He was walking to the photographer and just 2 seconds after that was taken, he almost pulled the camera to the ground.

I'm so glad (and relieved) it went so well. Money not wasted! Heh. For $208, we got a 2-hour photoshoot, all the photos returned to us on a CD-ROM, a 40-page photobook (half A4 size), 5 credit-card sized prints, 2 A4-sized prints and of course, a chance to be narcissistic!

Here are my favourite shots. :D







































































This is my favourite shot of us as a family. It's so wonky and unplanned!

DN's Movie

Check out this mini-movie my sister made for DN. She slaved over it for days. Thanks Dawn! ;)

There's a very unflattering picture in there of me looking like I'm ready to pop (I should have a word with my sister about that), but at that time I was only 4 months pregnant and had barely a bump. We were actually in the changing room of a shop selling maternity wear. They had fake bellies in every changing room (HAHAHA!) and we were having a gala time putting on those bellies, walking around, arching our backs and groaning.)

For true DN fans only... there are about 50 pictures!