Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Barrett - As Seen on TV

Barrett had himself a pretty big day today. He and mom prettied themselves up and went downtown to the Fox 4 studio to shoot a commercial! It's kind of silly, but we're feeling pretty excited about it.

My friend Krystle Gutierrez is a reporter for Fox 4 News (you can check her out on the morning show, and as a sometimes anchor on the midday show). So, Fox was doing a promo for the March of Dimes who has a race coming up in Dallas, and they needed a few babies with their mamas for the commercial. You'll get to see Krystle and her precious daughter, Katelyn, and also Barrett and I of course! The commercial should begin airing sometime next week, and will run up until the race, which is April 18th.

If you live in the Dallas area, you can be on the lookout for us - I am "candidly" playing with Barrett when I look up at the camera to say, "I'm marching for Barrett" (which I'm not - the only time I'll ever be on TV and of course I'm lying. Part of me actually feels the need to sign myself up for the race now). We had to do about a dozen takes, because our normally ebullient little man was totally dazed by the lights and cameras. He did a lot of blank staring and uncomfortable squirming. I, too, was pretty uncomfortable - I kept forgetting to deliver the line, so I was basically just sitting there on the floor in front of the cameraman playing with my son, occassionally looking up to awkwardly say the line. Hopefully he'll be a genius in the editing room, but if you see us and we look silly, you'll understand why. I'm rather famously awkward, you know.

After we filmed, Krystle gave us a tour of the studio and we got some great pictures

Barrett and I with Krystle and Katelyn at the news desk

Barrett the Anchorman

8 comments:

clg said...

okay so funny that they made you tell a lie :) those pictures are adorable! i'll tell my mom to look for your commercial and try to tape it for me!!

lisaburgess27 said...

So fun Angie...I'll be looking for ya'll. Barrett looks so cute in the anchorman chair :)

Ashleigh Carroll said...

That's awesome!!! I'll have to tell my mom to record some TV in Dallas to see if I can find you.

And if I were you, I would totally sign up for the race. Not just because then you would be telling the truth, but because you could play the famous commercial lady while you were there.

The Redman Family said...

How cool is that? I love that Barrett and you are on TV!!! How professional you look in those chairs! What a fun thing for a little guy to get to do at such a young age! We will look for you guys!

Amanda & Brian said...

How cool! Wish I would get to see the commercial.

John and Sarah said...

Thats awesome!....Im kind of thinking you need to walk now, but I wont judge you if you dont:)

Mary Ellen Wood said...

How cool is that!! I'm sure you were both great!

Little Lamb said...

I didn't know you did that...how fun!!! I will be on the look out to definitely dvr that one!!