It's hard to see...but Max is wearing the new IJ Beanie hat. As you can see...he's not all that thrilled about it! :)
I think it's natural for EVERY mama to think their child is about the cutest baby they've ever seen! Naturally I am one of those modest mamas. :) Anyway, it's very flattering when someone approaches you to say they also think your baby is adorable and needs to be modeling!
Well, this very thing happened to us! Max's pictures are all over our store and a photographer from Lifetouch came in and saw them and Brad just happened to be there. She told him she'd love to shoot him so she gave him her contact information. We thought this was pretty neat...but didn't think much of it. Anyway, I contacted her and she had me send a few photos of Max to her so she could show her marketing department and they loved Max. Lifetouch is well known for doing school pictures and yearbooks, but they also have a division that shoots local advertising campaigns for businesses. Soooooo...Max and I went in Tuesday for a photo shoot for either a Target or JCPenney's Easter campaign that will be launching this April. I got lucky because Maxwell warmed up to her pretty quickly and she was able to capture some sweet smiles from him before he got too comfortable and started investigating everything. Then it was impossible to get him to sit still!
The photographer said it's very hard to find cute kids of color in this market for some reason. She said she can get blonde hair blue eyed babies all day long...but to get a child of diversity is very difficult so she was so excited to see his pictures at the store. She said if Target or JCP's marketing dept like him enough...they might call to get permission to run it nationally (otherwise it's just for local use in their photo studios) and that she was also going to send proofs to the other departments...so we may be getting more phone calls. By the time we left she was already talking about the next campaign we could shoot and she said to make sure I call once Miles arrives so she can shoot all of us! :)
Anyway, I came home and told Brad..."Well, your son just made his first $20!". His modeling payment is $20/hr or pictures...however if we choose the prints...we have to wait until April when the campaign launches.
Watch out male models...you've got some competition coming your way! ;)
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