The greatest thing about having babies enrolled in my Lifetime of Memories program is that I get to photograph these children up to four times in the first year of their life. Patrick Luke of Luke Photography, recently photographed one year old Zachary, who I’d photographed as a six-month old. Between these two sessions, he had surgery to correct an issue with his eyes which caused double vision. He was quiet and well-behaved during his six-month session with double vision, but he was downright giddy during his year-old session. I’m guessing that he finally got a good look at what my face looked like…and he couldn’t stop laughing.
Zachary has a very animated laugh, and when he gets really riled up, he has the cutest laugh that sounds like a duck. He actually laughs like that on cue, when his Mommy said, “Laugh like a duck”, which she did several times during this session.
I was doing my best to keep him going, and made funny noises and faces to keep him laughing. I wondered if the funny faces reminded him of what I looked like when he had double vision. Nevertheless, I continued being funny, not really saying anything in particular, just to get the duck laugh. Remember, when you are getting kids to laugh, it’s not the punch line that gets them to laugh…it’s the delivery.
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