Now as much as I want to think I’m totally awesome and can get *everyone* to smile – there are times when I have tried all I can think of but the little corners of a child’s mouth just won’t turn up into a smile!  So that is when I pull out the big guns . . . haha!  It’s simple!  All you need is one spazzy parent (like Mama K) and a cat toy known as “the tickler”.  I swear it works and the more goofy you can get with the tickler, the more the kids will laugh.  Here is one of the behind the scenes pictures of how you can work this – I can’t tell you how many times I have laughed hysterically at what people do with that thing.

Sometimes you can get pictures like this . . .

Sometimes when the tickler doesn’t even work, I have to pull out the super big guns (aka rocket balloons).  If you’ve had a session with me over the past few years you will surely know what I’m talking about.  I pull these out when the child thinks they are done (but I don’t).  haha – these things are miracle workers – I bet I have some parents that could testify to that!  After you pump a rocket balloon up it flies around like a drunk bird making a whizzing noise.  Kids LOVE them!   Heck, I even love them.  If you’ve ever seen a picture sort of like this that I’ve shot – it wasn’t Santa flying overhead, it was a rocket balloon . . .

So . . . after the rocket balloons we busted out the Christmas gear . . .  is “I” not the cutest thing ever in this get up?

Here is “L” with a feather boa dahling . . .

One of my favorites – the snowglobe . . .  “I” was concentrating super hard trying to get the snow to move around.  “L” was loving it -

I even had these lollipops that had a Rudolph nose attached to the end – so the girls tried those out.  It never fails that when I tell siblings to “look at each other and laugh” – one will always point to the other one.  Seriously!  It’s hysterical . .

Lily has got some gorgeous eyelashes -

Three beautiful girls . .  .

Thanks “K” fam – I had SOOOO much fun playing with you!!