Noah’s first school photo

We got Noah’s pictures back from his pre-school this week, and they turned out really well. I didn’t realize they were going to be professional posed photos. I just thought they would be the traditional school photo head shot, so I have to say I was impressed. Then they told me how much they cost per sheet and I thought I was going to choke. I had to buy SOME since it is his FIRST school photo, and of course the photographer knows this. I bet the younger the child, the more dollar signs they see plastered across the parents’ foreheads as they walk in.

They gave a free gift with every photo purchase, which is nice, but I thought the choice of gift was kind of strange. It’s a t-shirt in Noah’s size with his picture on it. It seems weird to put him in a t-shirt with a picture of himself on it for several reasons:

1. If you want to see him, you can just look up at his face since it’s only about six inches higher than the picture on the shirt. This seems a bit redundant to me.

2. Doesn’t wearing a t-shirt with your own picture on it make you seem a little self-centered? He’s a two-year-old, so he’s pretty self-centered naturally. He doesn’t need any help with that right now thankyouverymuch.

3. Isn’t it a little dorky to wear a t-shirt with a photo of yourself on it? Isn’t that like going to a concert wearing a t-shirt with the band on it that you’re going to see? *Don’t be THAT guy! (Anyone get the PCU reference? The cheesy movie they run sometimes on Comedy Central? Jeremy Piven before he was Ari Gold? Anyone? Bueller?)

*I admit I did wear my 83 feet t-shirt to some of Christian’s shows, but that’s different. That was supportive. There’s an exception to the rule when you KNOW the band, especially when you wear the t-shirt to a battle of the bands. I also proudly wore my “I’m with the band” t-shirt.