Picture Day, Again

Well, we got the proofs back from our family pictures. The ones of the whole family turned out pretty good. However, the ones with the two kids and Laney by herself didn’t turn out as good. The photo place offered to retake the pictures at no additional charge, so we tried that. Yesterday we went to have them redone. Laney was in a sweet mood and making some cute faces, until…

Everyone was trying to get her to smile and Hayden thought he would try too. He accidentally scratched her face and she started screaming. She had a big red scratch from her forehead, in-between her eyes and down her nose. It started to bleed a little. I picked her up, calmed her down and then was able to sort-of cover it with make-up. By this time Hayden was getting tired and restless. (He hadn’t been feeling very well, anyway.) We were going to do one more picture of the two of them before taking the ones of Laney by herself. So, Hayden was seated in a big chair and Laney was supposed to sit in his lap. Only, when she got close to him, he took both hands, grabbed her cheeks and started quickly scratching over and over again. I have never seen him be so defiant while purposely hurting her. She started screaming inconsolably. Hayden was taken to the bathroom for a spanking from Daddy. Needless to say, after that we were done taking pictures (since our poor baby girl had scratches literally all over her little face). And I had to reschedule, yet again. Now we are going back on Monday to get hers done, once her face has had time to clear up a little.

Here are some of the proofs we received...