America's Next Top Model

You already know I'm "that mom." Today, I took LM to the Picture People at the mall for her 3 months pictures. Let's pretend she's not 3 3/4 months old, okay? BigM got her 3 (4, whoops) month pictures done at a super professional studio and I ended up spending 1/10 of my salary on pictures for her in the first year of her life (unfortunately, that is embarassingly true.) And now that I'm not working, spending any part of my "salary" on pictures for LM would be impossible, unless I take my own digital pictures and never print them.

Before we left, I gave LM a bath and when she comes out of the tub, her hair is a mass of curls. Yet somehow (given I have no training in hair styling) every single hair on her head ends up completely straight. Except today. All but about 28 strands were straight all over her head except around her left ear, one little curl decided to stick out, and it wasn't a pretty little curl, just the top curled so it ended up looking like she had slept on it wrong. So being a resourceful MM, I went into the bathroom and put water on it. So then it was wet and sticking out. And the photographer wanted to get started. So we took a billion pictures of her looking like she had some grease in her hair. Not cute (the hair anyway.) The rest of her is another story, she's adorable. Really. I can prove it- or...

apparently, I have "sucker" tatooed across my forehead, because the saleslady printed and blew up a couple of the pictures to 11 x 14 and put them in triple matted frames.

"Aren't these the most beautiful pictures of her? They really are wonderful! And they are only $149 each! A real steal!"

Well, little did she know I am a professional bargain shopper and I not only had a 30% off coupon, but I was only getting 4x6s on sheets. I kindly declined her *generous* offer and as I was leaving, she ran out and said, "Would you be interested in signing a modeling release so we can hang these in our studio?" I agreed so she hands me this release form saying she could not only hang the pictures but they could use them in nationwide advertising. So watch out, mice fans, you may just see LM in the Picture People ads!