It is so important to capture your children as they grow up, even if you just take happy snapshots.  My son is not one of those children who suffers from “Photographer’s Child Syndrome,” the phenomenon where children of photographers hate to get their picture taken because they always have a camera shoved in their faces.  It helps that he hasn’t seen my camera in more than a month, and I only brought my camera out for about 5 minutes to catch him playing.  I don’t spend long trying to get him to smile or do something cute.  I just get in there, snap snap snap, and get out!  He is still curious and smiling instead of being frustrated and upset with me.

Happy Photographing!