There’s a reason
May 7, 2008 by Chicory
There’s a reason that even though Sassa’s beautiful and charismatic, we’re not living the high life off of her modeling and acting contracts…
it’s because the darned kid doesn’t perform on command.
Don’t get me wrong. The feminist within me is proud that my child doesn’t let herself be manipulated into performing simply for the benefit of others. But the stage mother within can get so frustrated that my little ham is only hammy at her convenience.
We were asked if Equality Utah could film Sassa saying either “I love my two mommies” or “I have the POWER!” for a promotional video to be shown during a big fundraising dinner. ”Can Sassa do that?” they asked. ”No problem.” I said. I was so wrong.
It was right after nap. She was sleepy. She was shy. She flat out wouldn’t say either of those two things. In fact, she wouldn’t say anything at all. At least in front of the camera she wouldn’t. She did whisper “I love my two mommies” but it was too faint to use, I think. She talked about her dogs for a few minutes off camera. Finally they asked me to hold her. So I did, and she tucked her face into my neck.
A star she was not. Cute as all heck, but…
Anyway. Alas.
She was a bit more talkative by the time we got home. So I whipped out the camera for this week’s video dose of Sassafras. And, of course, she stopped talking. But she did sing some. And yes, she’s still obsessed with octopi. So here you go.
Angi and I pulled up our chairs close to watch our favorite little tot. She didn’t fail to bring huge smiles to our faces. I LOVE her.
You have the most adorable daughter.
She’s adorable!!
We have the same issue of “shy kid”. However, you get her away from strangers and she won’t stop talking for a second!
We glad she’s selective with who she wants to share her cuteness with!
All these snakes to hide! All these snakes to hide!
Dancin to the beat! And I’m bouncin to the beat and I’m dancin to the beat!
I do love that song.
I heard very good things about your little star. And don’t fret, Yegs is 8 and he did about 1400 takes and 1/2 of them were tucked in my neck.
We were approached once my a mom at T’s school to be a flashback on some WB30 tv show. Like two lines or something. Our boy wasn’t quiet. He was the total opposite. He was so hyper that even though he looked the part, they were afraid it would be two hard to shoot it. It was a total nightmare.
So i still feel really really bad about our pirate christmas. damn the child’s memory!
Bouncing to the beat! She’s so adorable.
Cuuuuuuutie patootie.
Cake is at that same very-literal stage. When you said, “What are your doing?” and she replied, “I’m doing this.”
If I say, “Why did you do that?” He’ll reply, “Because I did that.”
I’m going to show Cakie the video.