Beautiful Baby!!!

Ok, so my mother-in-law asked me & my husband a few months ago if we had thought about entering our son into the Photogenic category in our town’s pageant.  I of course said no, and that I disagreed with parents putting their children in pageants when the child is too young to be able to say they want to or they don’t want to.  I think it should be up to the child, not up to the parents.  When I told her that, she quickly informed me that all I would have to do is enter a photo, and that my baby wouldn’t even have to be present the night of the pageant, as long as they had his picture.  She told me she would pay the entry fee and she would take care of everything, the only thing I had to do is pick out a picture, professional or snap-shot, and give it to her to enter.

So, I gave in…Since he didn’t have to be there, except in a frame…

Well, the pageant was on March 7, 2009.  We entered a photo that we had taken for his 3 month picture(s).  He has a big smile, and is wearing the cutest little striped outfit with a wolf face on the chest…He looks perfect!!  Wouldn’t ya know, my baby won the photogenic category!  My mother-in-law told me the title he received, it’s something like “Little Prince” or something similar….anyway, He won a trophy and his picture will be in our town’s newspaper.  I am so proud!

I feel a little hypocritical because of the way I really feel about pageants, but I can’t help it…I think that entering a picture is a smidge different than actually making your child parade around on a stage all dressed up and made up.  We just entered a picture that we had already had taken-before we even had knowledge of the pageant, so…am I really a hypocrit or is it just my defiance against pageants poking through??

Oh well, who cares, I just really wanted to share the fact that my baby boy won most photogenic!!!  YAY!!!