Elliott's 4 month Glamour Shots

Before I show you the 1,587,000 pictures from Elliott's photo shoot I want to tell you the HILARIOUS story of our experience at Sears.

Elliott had taken a great nap.  He woke up happy and ready to go.  We were feeling hopeful about everything going smoothly.  We got to Sears right on time.  There was a lady picking up pictures, but other than her we were the only ones there.  We checked in, the photographer gave us some paperwork to fill out and then took us into the room to get ready.  After we were in there, at about 6:15, a lady showed up with her 3 sons claiming she had a photo appointment at 6:00.  The photographer came to ask us when we had booked our appointment, if we had gotten a phone reminder, etc, etc.  We thought, oh great, here we go again.  We'll have to try Target next after writing a strongly worded letter to Sears.  Our photographer was the only one there and he was really nice, but this woman was irate.  She was yelling at him about how it was unacceptable that they were double booked and she had driven 40 minutes to get there, she got a reminder call and she wasn't leaving without her boys being photographed.  The photographer called his manager, got permission to do both photo shoots and very nicely explained to her that a double booking had never happened before, she was free to stay but would have to wait or she could come back for a discount.  She continued to be pissy.  The photographer excused himself to start with us and she left in a huff to go to her car to get her phone so she could show him in the call log when the reminder call had come in.  As if that mattered somehow. 

So.  We're doing our photo shoot.  While we were putting clothes on Elliott the photographer went to check on angry, crazy lady who was now back, yelling again and waving her phone around in the air.  She showed him her cell phone and said, "see.  This is Sears calling me.".  He checked and, this is awesome, said, that is not the phone number for this Sears.  That is the phone number for the Sears at (another) Mall.  They called that Sears and checked and sure enough......crazy, angry, "justice will be served" lady had gone to the wrong Sears.  All of a sudden she was meek and calm and apologetic and blamed the whole silly situation on being tired. 

I felt like saying, "well, I'm tired too lady, and I managed to get here on time with a baby and at the correct mall".  But I didn't.  Then she had the nerve to tell the photographer that she still wanted to stay and do the photos.  The photographer actually knocked about 50% off what we owed (and still took our 40% off coupon!) for us having to deal with the delays caused by her. 

Yikes.  Poor guy was there tonight about 2.5 hours past when he should have gone home.

So, without futher adieu, I give you Elliott at 4 months, with a couple of Elliott at 4 months with Spencer at 4 years at the very end.

Oh, and I illegally hijacked these from the Sears website using the snipping tool, which is why all of them are stamped with the Sears logo.