To think this is so odd??!

[curiousgeorgie]

My PIL have mentioned several times over te past 8 weeks since their 2nd grandchild was born that they would love to have a canvas of the two children (my DD and new DN) to put on the wall.

With christmas coming thought this would be a great gift so sent a message to BIL and his fiancée to ask if we could get the kids together to do this for them. DH has a brilliant camera and is quite into photography so wouldn't cost them anything and wouldn't take long.

BIL sent a message straight back saying great idea, they'll love that, lets set it up.

3 hours later and she sends me a message saying 'Im going to have to say no to the picture'.

Weird???! Please tell me this is completely off because I'm not really sure what on earth I'm supposed to respond to that!

I was thinking along the same lines vix. I can't help but think no matter how it's done the op's dd will be the main person with cuteness and smiles whereas 8 week old babies can't do much.

Narked so what? Only the pic of my DD has been covered! It's not deliberate. Sometimes I dust and then can't be bothered replacing things.

I honestly can't believe people THINK like that MrsKieth* "The main person"

WTF???

They're children...it's a photo...not the bloody Oscars!

Mrs Keith Richards, did you read what we were planning to do? If anything the baby would be the focus of the photo.

I never dust but I always stick things around and forget to move them!

Oh dear it's a minefield it seems.

This is getting a bit crazy.

Just to clarify, I'm not vying for my DD to have top billing on my PIL's wall

On my photo of ds and dn they were the sane size and ds looked very cute

It's one we all love.

i asked but was ignored so i'll ask again.

is it possible SIL doesn't think your DH is that good with a camera and doesn't want a badly taken photo of her baby blown up and hung on a wall of a house she visit's regularly?

I just can't help thinking that pose is nice for siblings but cousins?

And that it would be nice to wait and get them together when there's smiles etc from the baby, you know? A wee bit personality! Maybe sil has already got newborn photos which are lovely in their own right, to give as presents? Her bounty photos or something?

I am so glad out of me dsis and dbro and my 6 cousins I am the only one with children. It sounds like a minefield having top dc and main people.

Oh bollocks. It's incredibly precious of SIL. It's real PFB behaviour. OP...tell PILS why you're not doing it. Silly moo she sounds.

To clarify, my use of 'main person' refers to the photo, the actual set up and how it may look.

Your motivation was sound anyway, thinking of a cost free present for them to give at a time when they're saving for a wedding.

I guess that could be possible but they asked us to bring DH's camera to the christening and take photos ( difficult as DH was godfather and I was holding DD, so didn't take a lot)

And also, BIL jumped at the chance to have DH take photos of DN when it's been brought up before, (in a non canvas way). My DH is actually a graphic designer but works a lot with pictures and does a lot with them on the computer afterwards etc.

He's my husband so obviously I'm biased but we've given friends pictures of their children he's done before and they've always loved them. Put them on walls, asked for a copy to give to family, made Facebook profile etc.

inneed my nana has over 40 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. her walls are covered in photos!

MrsKeith does it matter!? Of course it doesn't matter...unless the older child sits on the baby and obscures it totally!

ah well , then my guess is she has arranged something alreday photowise of just her baby and doesn't want to say.maybe she is going to give the photo to you aswell as a gift and doesn't want to spoil it.

She'd need super sized walls for 40 canvases!

Does it matter? Well maybe to sil who might like newborn pictures of her baby alone before group shots start! Who knows?

boo they're not covered by other photos though are they?

tbh if my sister had a baby I would feel slightly jealous as mine are almost to old to be cute now whereas a newborn to 3 yr old is cute.

Oh bollocks. It's incredibly precious of SIL. It's real PFB behaviour. OP...tell PILS why you're not doing it. Silly moo she sounds. s

o true, but your allowed to be pfb if its a teeny baby apparently, . not in my books

no, they all just about have their own space.

i'd love it if my sister had a baby (my dcs are the only gcs so far), it would take that 'if they were my kids' look right off her face

Could she not just have already sorted a present for them though? Just because her DP doesn't know/she hadn't told him yet/ he has forgotten about it doesn't mean she's rejecting your idea, just that she has other plans.

Wow, so much over thinking on one thread!

Some really crazy responses to a simple OP.

curiousgeorgie What ever the reason your SIL doesn't want to do the canvas, I don't think it should stop you making one of your DD and giving it to the PILs.

I was wondering if the baby has milk spots or something atm, and SIL doesn't want the baby forever looking spotty on the wall of someone else house?

However, we may never know.

Oh my sister has that look to, that oh I would get down and play imaginary games all day with them instead og MNing all day look LOL.