Billy plugged his camera phone into the charger using the outlet at the top of the stairs. Then he checked to make sure it was really charging.
"What are you doing, Billy?" Pippa asked as she reached the top step.
"I'm charging my camera phone," Billy replied. "We need to take a new group photo, now that you're here."
"I get to be in the photo?" Pippa asked when she reached where Billy was working.
"Of course," Billy agreed. "You're one of us now. We're going to take a group photo with everyone, so we can have it framed and give it to The Writer for a present."
"What do I have to do?" Pippa asked.
"All you have to do, Pippa," Billy said, "is just put on your nicest clothes and brush your hair."
"Goodie!" Pippa exclaimed. "I've been wanting to wear my one-and-only dress and my fancy shoes!"
Pippa skipped from the room to change.
"It will be a while," Billy called after her. "The camera phone still has to charge."
While the camera phone was charging, the dolls changed into their nice clothes.
The girls helped each other with their hair, because it's easier to fix someone else's hair than to do your own when you have long hair. They checked to see how they looked in the mirror in the big bathroom.
The boys were in the other bathroom, getting ready. They helped each other, too.
It took a long time for all the dolls to get ready to have their photo taken together. When they were all ready, they sat down on the stairs. They decided that the dolls in the back row should stand. They left a place for Billy in the front row.
Then Pippa decided to sit in Charlotte's lap.
Billy set the timer on the camera phone. He would have to run and get in the photo before the timer ran down and the camera went off.
It's harder to get a good photo with so many dolls. Billy didn't have to worry that they would blink, because none of them have eyes that close, but sometimes one would do something, like have to scratch an itchy nose or turn to see what the dogs were doing. Billy got this one.
"Pippa, you moved!" Billy exclaimed.
"I just noticed the big light over the front door," Pippa said.
Then Billy took this one.
Then the dolls decided they needed their pets in the photo. When the dolls were getting their pets, Pippa ran and got her bear, even though he's just a teddy bear and not a pet. In her imagination, he's real.
Veronika put Cleo's aquarium in her lap. Mandy held Marmalade, but he didn't need an aquarium, because he is a cat. Charlotte and Billy held Pierre and Freckles, and Brownie stood in front, because she didn't fit on the stairs with the dolls. The camera went off and took this photo.
Then they all tried to be silly, just for fun. Mandy tried to look queenly.
Mariah pointed and said, "Look! A bird!"
Jolena held up two fingers up behind Emil's head.
Emil pretended to pull Billy's wig off.
Charlotte said, "Ta-da!" as if she had just done something great.
Pippa chewed on her hair.
Veronika waved her fingers in front of her face.
Billy didn't have time to do anything silly before the camera took the photo.
Billy was excited to view the photos on the computer right away. Veronika came in while he was working. She was quiet for a while, just looking at the screen as Billy cropped a photo. He removed the edges of the photo so the dolls were more centered in the picture. Sometimes he cropped a photo to remove something he didn't want to show, but he had set this up very carefully, and the people and real dogs were not around to get in the photo by accident.
"You know," Veronika said after watching for a while, "That would be great as the main photo on our Facebook page."
Billy looked at the computer screen. He tipped his head to one side as if he were thinking about it. "We do need a new photo," he said finally after seeing the current photo in his mind.
"Emil and Pippa aren't in our current photo, and some of our heads are cut off. If I crop this photo like this...."
He took a little off the top and the bottom of the photo so it was wide from side to side but not very tall. Then he checked to see what the dimensions (dih-MEN-shuns) of the photo were, so he would know how wide it was and how tall. It looked like this.
"We aren't doing anything," Billy said finally. "It's just our faces. I have a better idea, but we will need to change our clothes again."
What do you think Billy's idea was?
Veronika: Götz Classic Kidz Vroni
Mandy: Götz Happy Kidz Katie 2015
Jolena: Götz Happy Kidz Lena in Aspen
Charlotte: Götz Happy Kidz Anna in Paris
Mariah: Götz Happy Kidz Mariah, "Chosen" from My Doll Best Friend
Billy: Götz Happy Kidz Lily at London
Emil: Götz Happy Kidz Emilia
Marmalade: Purrrfect Cats from KTL
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