Taylor's Three Year Pictures

Taylor turns 3 in a week and a half (I know, crazy, right?) and since today was somewhat warm, I decided it would be good to try and get some pictures done.  We went over to the arboretum because I didn't want to go to a place that had a park and therefore make it less likely Taylor would cooperate.  Somehow I don't think it would have mattered where we were; she wasn't going to cooperate regardless.  By the way, I only speak ill of my subjects when they are my own children ;).  Now I could have gotten a lot more pictures- in fact I did.  But I made a total rookie mistake.  I forgot to check my camera settings when I turned it on.  Well, that's not entirely true.  I did check my shutter speed and my focus, I just completely ignored my ISO.  I think it's because I rarely change it.  But apparently last time I used my camera I did change it (oh yes, we were at an indoor party) to 500.  So high ISO, flash with diffuser= totally blown out pictures.  I'm seriously kicking myself (over and over and over) because I really did get some adorable shots of Taylor running towards me with this big grin and I don't think there's anything I can do to save them.  Boo.  But lesson learned.  Always check ISO first (and you know this isn't the first time I've done this; you'd think I'd remember by now!).  Actually I just turned on my camera to make sure it was set back at 200 ISO just in case I don't remember to check next time.
Anyway, we tried taking a few more pictures at home once we realized Taylor wasn't interested in napping.  Those weren't so great either.  Nothing wrong technically; just Taylor didn't want to cooperate of course!  I'm very curious what other photographers do to get a strong-willed child to sit down for a nanosecond.  Putting cute little critters around my lens doesn't work.  Obviously making silly sounds doesn't work as she's not a baby.  Even bribing her with fruit snacks didn't work.  I guess we did manage to get a few and a few is better than nothing.  Maybe we'll get blessed with another warm (hopefully not so windy!!) day and I can try again.

I don't know why she kept putting her hand in her mouth

I am three- hear me ROAR!