Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

I found myself looking at the calendar a few weeks ago and realizing I had unknowingly signed Brady up for 3 different professional picture sessions within 24 hours. Since Murphy's Law is in full effect at our house, the dread of inevitable facial injury immediately set in.

The schedule was as follows:

-Thursday afternoon - annual "school" pictures at daycare
-Thursday evening - family picture for church directory
-Friday afternoon - "1 Year" pictures at JC Penney that I had put off waiting for the whole cut eyebrow/stitches incident to heal (see Big Ouchie post from August)

So Thursday morning rolls around. I get Brady dressed up for photo session # 1 and drop him off at daycare. He comes home completely injury free and the picture turned out pretty good. (Had I known the school picture was going to turn out so good, I would have cancelled the Penney's appointment, but you never know with school pictures .)




















That evening we head off to get our family portrait for our church directory, which also went well.




















But I don't rest easy quite yet as Friday morning I have a meeting with my Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) group at church and Brady goes and plays in the nursery. After the meeting I pick him up from the nursery, and thankfully again, there is nary a mark on him. At this point I begin to rest easy. We are few hours away from our last picture session and we are meeting my mother-in-law at our house where there will be two sets of eyes and four hands on Brady. (Can you see where this is heading yet?)

We get home and Brady begins to play in his "tupperware" cabinet that I keep unlocked in the kitchen for him while I get things out for lunch. Somehow, Brady manages to fall into the cabinet and crack his head on the edge of the shelf inside the cabinet, hitting right across the bridge of his nose and the non-scarred eyebrow. This is the cabinet he has played in every day for the last 6 months without incident. My mother-in-law who was right next to him when it happened was beside herself, but as we all know, with toddlers, these things are bound to happen. In fact, in this instance I think it was destined. Thankfully, no skin was broken and it only left some red marks. I present the following illustrated picture.



From a distance the Penney's pictures turned out really good. Plus, now we have another story.