Model?

Bored at home on Sunday with snow coming down outside I started taking pictures of Matty. I decided I should work on his picture taking skills. How awesome would it be if he would just automatically give me a cute smile whenever he saw the camera? I figured this would not be a hard skill to teach, let's see how it went...

First I explained that everytime I point the camera at him he has to smile. So lets try it, give me a smile.

Apparently his smile consists of showing his bottom teeth. So we worked on smiling. I showed him how to smile, by ridiculously smiling at him and telling him to "smile like Mommy."
Then I said, "Let's try to take another picture with a nice smile. Smile for me, buddy, come on, give me a good smile!"

Okay so then his smile turned in to sticking his tongue out. Great! Let's try this again. Give me a good smile!!

Again with the tongue!!! What the heck is with this kid? He will not smile for me!!

After many pictures of Matthew with his tongue sticking out, I told him to show off for the camera. And this is what he did...

He wanted to show me his hand?? hmmmm, interesting....

Then I discovered something. He loves showing things to the camera. He gets the whole camera concept, but doesn't quite understand why I would want a picture of him. But he does think that I should want a picture of his food or his toys. Let me show you what I mean...

Maybe he could become one of those models on The Price is Right? You know those girls who show off the stuff that the contestants can win. I think Matthew would be really good at that. Or maybe we need to work on his modeling skills a little bit more. I'll let you know how that goes :)