Kids
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie
“While my hubby, son, and I were playing Minecraft, my 2.5 year old daughter was playing in the playroom behind me. After a while I noticed the absence of noise, turned around, and found this sight. She had fallen asleep in the last position she had been playing in which happened to be laid out on top of my Corgi. The dog is not very intelligent and just laid there with a 35 lb toddler on top of her for what must have been 20 minutes or more. After snapping the pic I took the baby to her own bed and the dog acted like nothing happened.”
(submitted by Anna)
First Communion
“In 1987, I began the current trend of Duck Lips to my mother’s disgust and my grandmother’s sheer amazement.”
(submitted by Adam)
Beware Of Crocs
“My dad was taking a photo of my husband pushing our daughter on the swing, and just at the moment he clicked the shutter a kid walked in front of her and BAM. For the record: After a few minutes of crying he was fine, and the kid’s mom thought this photo was so funny that she had my dad share it with her so she could send it to her relatives. Upon seeing the photo, a friend of ours commented, “Get used to it, kid. Girls are going to be kicking you in the face for the rest of your life….”
(submitted by Christina)
Baby Powder
“This is a favorite early photo of my daughters after a strange incident involving baby powder. Their future personalities shine through.”
(submitted by Justin)
The Scream
“The shopping trip from hell. My 2 yr old throwing a fit over m&ms at Target. ”
(submitted by Rachael)
Day At the Beach
No babies were hurt in the making of this photo. Here is Dad’s story:
“We had just finished up a family reunion in California and decided to do some family pictures on the final day. Before this photo was taken, we had just spent time getting about 18 people (many of whom were kids) to pose for a large family picture. Those with young ‘uns can attest that sitting still and smiling for the camera are like torture to a 4 year old, so by the time we had finished with the large family we had used up all of my 4 year old’s good graces and he was in a sour mood.
So we attempt to take pictures of just our family and things are going south quickly. Both kids are crying and we are pulling our hair out trying to get one good picture because we’re a happy family dangit and we’re all in coordinating colors that have been meticulously chosen and fretted over. Someone had the idea to do a “candid” photo of us swinging our kids to hopefully raise our kids’ spirit and relieve some of our stress by flinging our kids around.
First couple of shots go fine. As we wind up for the final one I notice something out of the corner of my eye. E (the baby) is at a weird angle and my wife is yelling “GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” instead of the usual “Wheeeeeee!” So I know something’s about to go down.
I watch my son gracefully do a full backwards layout and land flat on his back in the sand. He’s stunned for a moment, cries for a minute, but after about 2 minutes of sniffling he’s back to his regular self, smiling and laughing.”
(submitted by Liz Hansen Photography)
The family visiting their photo at the AFP Exhibition in Santa Monica, CA.
