Ok, so it's not my kid. It's my boyfriend's little brother's kid. She's getting big really fast and is running around and talking now, so I did some more baby pictures for them.

I wouldn't normally try to shoot a 16-month-old with a 4x5, but she was such a ham I couldn't resist. It didn't hurt to have 5 family members standing behind me making funny faces, waving toys and promising happy food-things like "baba" and "peetah" and "nanah" if she would just stand still long enough for me to focus.

I did some backup shots with the little plastic Diana knockoff just in case.

She is really really cute though. (She's holding the Polaroids there, refusing to hand them back to me until I let her click the shutter release on the Crown Graphic again. It makes a big click. When asked, she correctly identified the baby in the pictures as "The Baby". I think I'm in love.) Even her drool is cute. A consummate model, she happily accepted payment for her services in the form of Lego Duplo bricks instead of cash and promptly passed out. What a sport.