Keishaun Anderson felt this way when she got her son Arris ready for his photogenic moment. She envisioned sweet, smiling photos of Arris that she would cherish for years to come. But what she got instead left her and her friends in stitches!
When the photos arrived, Arris was captured with a rather pouty and annoyed expression instead of a smile. He also had his hood pulled up as he held his favorite Spiderman toy. She couldn’t believe it! “I was kind of speechless – I couldn’t believe he didn’t smile at all!” She said. “But it was super hilarious to me. My family and friends also laughed because they know how expressive Arris can be.”
When Keishaun Anderson received her 2-year-old son Arris’s preschool pictures, which he took at his school on Sept. 10, she was surprised to see him sitting with a pouty expression, hood up and holding his Spider-Man figure.
“I was kind of speechless — I couldn’t believe he didn’t smile at all!” Anderson tells PEOPLE exclusively. “But it was super hilarious to me. My family and friends also laughed because they know how expressive Arris can be.”
Anderson believes her son’s serious demeanor wasn’t due to nerves or camera shyness; he’s usually quite photogenic. “I think he just wanted to go play on the playground with his classmates,” she muses.
“He’s only 2, so he really didn’t say much, but when I showed him the photo, he just said, ‘Haha that’s me,’ and laughed,” she continues.
After receiving the photos of Arris, Anderson posted them on her Instagram, and soon the comment section was flooded with responses.
“imagine being excited for your sons first picture day and he bring these back home 😅,” she captioned the post.
“He will look back at these and crack up 😂😂😂,” one user replied. “This is so priceless 😍,” another said.
“Me every Monday at work. I feel ya, boy 😂,” someone else commented.
While the photos might not be what Anderson anticipated, she still plans to frame them and hang them on the walls of her home, as well as include copies in their family photo album.
“Next year I think I’ll just hope and pray for the best because I thought I gave him a good pep talk this year,” she says, “but that went south really fast. It just depends on the mood Arris is in.”
Even though it wasn’t what his mom had dreamed of for Arris’s first picture day, she plans to frame it and hang it on the family wall in her home. As the saying goes, sometimes the best picture-perfect moments are the ones you don’t expect.
Job 8:21 “He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.”
