I May Be 30 But I Can Still Do This:

Now We Are Six

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a good portraiture of a 6 year-old?

I do.

He's not really interested in smiling for the camera over and over again. He's right in the middle of that painful smile phase. He prefers to look silly, pouty, scary or mean over charming.

You know what did the trick for me, finally? Getting him to do really sweet, awesome, incredible tricks while I snapped away.

But like Grandma Rass says, "Use the best of what you got. And then what you got's the best you got."

There's real wisdom in that.

Here's the best of what I got:

Happy Birthday, Bud.