Izzie B's Sailor Suit Portraits (15 Months) & Summer Portraits 2014

Izzie turned 15 months on June 2, so it was time to take her for the traditional sailor suit portraits.  Fortunately, it also coincided with summer portraits, so we combined the two sets of outfits into one session.  She's be slightly skittish with the cameras since she was about 9 months old, so we never know if they're going to pull a smile out of her.  She's also been mobile since 5 months old, so keeping her in place long enough to get any portraits is also a game.  She did about as well as we could've expected, although we didn't get many smiles.

She wore my dress and I was shocked when she stood up and saw how short it was.  Guess it was a sign of the times (mid-80s) lol.

 Here's me in the sailor dress at the same age (15 months) in 1987.

All of the boys in our family (Tramposch side) in their sailor suits.  Brady on the left (2011) and on the right from the top down, my dad (1957), my brother Alex (1989), and my brother Chris (1993).

My mom couldn't pass up matching me to my brother, Alex, when he had his sailor suit portraits done.  Can't say I'm much different when it comes to matching the kids ;) 

It didn't stop there, with the traditional 1 year sailor suits.  This is me and Alex in 1991 and I'm again in a sailor suit.  I have the same impulse to buy my kids anything nautical, so I get it. 

And again in 1992, this time with Chris involved.

I tend to buy clothes on clearance at the end of seasons for the following year, and when I saw this shirt for Brady, I knew it would go perfectly with Izzie's dress (and it was nautical, so I really couldn't resist).

I had this one made into a 16x20 canvas print to hang in my house. 

Brady's turn solo.

Outfit change!  Another great deal from last summer's collections.  I knew it would look amazing on her.

Trying to pull the headband off.  Luckily we got one good one with it on.  I think we're done with headbands for a while.

Hollywood Walk of Fame

We had gone to the San Diego Zoo on our last day in California and had a flight out of Los Angeles at midnight.  The zoo closed at 5PM, and we were done by 4PM.  It's a two hour drive between the two cities, so we had plenty of time to spare.  After our fun experience trying to contain the kids while sitting on the runway on the flight out, we weren't in any hurry to be at the airport many hours early.  We had thrown around a few ideas of things to kill the time and I suggested we head to Hollywood.  I had been there 20 years ago and knew Andy might enjoy it.

One of the fun parts about the walk of fame is checking out all the hand/footprints made my famous people.  I was there last in 1994, so many of the ones we saw weren't there during my last trip and a lot of the people were unknown back then. 

 They have all kinds of characters out on the walk.  Andy figures that's where all the actors trying to make it hang out lol.

We had dinner at Hard Rock and by the time we were done, the sun had gone down.  Here is TCL Chinese Theatre lit up at night. 

The Roosevelt Hotel.  This concludes our California trip.  We had a great time and look forward to visiting again!