Strike a Pose

When you become new parents, it is a no brainer that you also become the baby paparazzi. The husband and I were no exception to this rule. In the beginning, we took picture after picture and got them all developed no matter what they looked like. Now, the Boy is 2 1/2 years old and we often for get the camera (like today when we are going to the Splash Park at the Zoo for the first time) and we hardly ever print the pictures we do take.

This week we realized we had over 100 pictures saved on our digital camera. It is now August and there are pictures from April on the camera. Feeling like we are doing a disservice to our child and our photo albums, we decide to get the photos developed. I download the photos at work and send them to Snapfish which will send them to be developed at your local drugstore. The drugstore processes the digital pics in a few hours.

Apparently some new regulations have been enforced regarding pictures since we last developed. The Husband went to pick up the pics as a surprise so I didn't have to pick them up later. I thought he had gone to fill up the lawnmower gas tank and began to worry when he was gone for nearly 30 minutes. He finally gets back home and he hands me the pictures. On the envelope is says, "11 pictures not developed, child naked." The Husband say, "Next time, you pick up the pictures." The Husband had to listen to the photo clerks explanation as to why they couldn't print the pictures and why he shouldn't send those kind of pictures to be developed.

Now, most parents think that bath pictures and silly naked pictures of their kids are cute, no real harm in that. The people at Walgreens don't think so. It is company policy not to develop pictures of kids without clothes. I understand the policy and think it is in place for a good reason. But now, the photo clerk at Walgreens has flagged my husband as a child pornographer. I think I might have to go back and explain, after all, I was really the one who sent the pictures.