9-month Professional portraits

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I got these taken at Kiddie Kandids and was very happy. We went to the mall on a Monday morning, so it was not very busy. Jon went to go get a new phone at the Sprint store and I took Sasha to the portrait studio to get her 9-month pictures taken. There was only one employee staffing the store, and no other customers.
Last time we went to Kiddie Kandids for Sasha's 6 month portrait, she had a bad case of stranger anxiety and would not cooperate for photos. It was the same woman taking pictures again today.
Sasha seemed ambivalent, until I tried to put her on the 'stage'. She started crying and suddenly didn't seem to like the picture lady. Fortunately, the photographer was VERY patient, and it was obvious that the photographer loved children. She let me take Sasha to the back room to nurse her and calm her down. It took Sasha a half hour to warm up to the photographer and the store. She warmed up enough to be friendly with the photographer but would still get angry and cry if we tried to put her on the photo stage. I ended up calling Jon to come to the store to help out. The moment she had her Daddy with her, Sasha immediately became her normal cheerful self.
The first two pictures were with the flag background. That background was the main reason I chose to return to Kiddie Kandids this time around. We lured Sasha to the column with the blocks. She would not let us take them away from her once she actually stood at that column so the blocks ended up in the picture. Oh well, small price to pay for such a cute picture. Sasha continued to cooperate for the two garden backdrop pictures, and her close up portraits.
I love her dress and the bow in her hair. And those cute little baby teeth in the close up portrait.
In our living room, we have a picture of Jon when he was 9 months. The resemblance between Sasha's 9 month portraits and Jon's is amazing. I find it funny because at first glance, people seem to think she looks like me. I think it's because she has my cheeks or maybe because she's a girl. But honestly, Sasha has almost all of Jon's features and looks identical to his baby pictures. Put a dress on him in his baby pictures and you have a baby Sasha, hehe!