Wal-Mart Photo Shoot

Back in July I sent some pictures of Josie to a modeling agency recommended by a friend. They were very honest about how they don't get a lot of work for babies, but it only cost $10 to "enroll", so I did it. Josie loves getting her picture taken and I thought it would be fun if we ever got called.

A couple of weeks ago, we did get called! They asked us to send some more pictures of her. The "client", who ended up being Wal-Mart, liked the pictures and we set up an appointment to come in and get a few more pictures taken. They liked those too so yesterday we went to Arkansas for her formal shoot.

Before you get too excited there were MANY other babies chosen. They are doing several different diaper and wipe product packaging. They choose 4 or 5 babies for each one and I think they'll choose the final picture from those. So it's not like Josie is for sure going to be on anything.

Still, the experience was very cool. My mom and I drove down there yesterday. We left early to make sure we made it on time and went out to lunch in Springdale. When we got to the studio they called her back for hair and makeup. They had a make up artist named Shelly in from New York. Josie didn't love this part and kept trying to push her hands away. I still think she did pretty good because she didn't cry or fuss really. After a little powder and blush and a little work on her hair we went out and met with the next lady. We stripped her down and got into her diaper.

Then on to the next station. There was a white platform set up in front of a white back drop. Several photographers were waiting. There was also a "baby wrangler" in charge of getting Josie to smile. She had all kinds of props and toys. All of the images on the camera were filtered to a giant computer screen where three other women watched all the images that came in.

Josie did fantastic. She's quite a little ham and loved all of the attention. They were trying to get a shot of her crawling so I would pull her back and she'd crawl toward the toy that the baby wrangler had. Then they'd take some pictures and we'd start all over. I only got to see a few of the pictures because the screen was behind me, but I thought they looked great.

The whole process took about an hour and a half. I didn't take any pictures even though I had my camera. I was too afraid they would think I was a geek. I'm really curious to know what will happen next. Hopefully Josie out photographed all of the other babies. Maybe they'll notify us? Look for her cute face on Wal-Mart brand fragrance free wipes!