Lots of diffuse light, and removal of distracting bits and bobs.
The problem I find with kids is that they tend to pose, in many case it looks like they've got a broom stick stuck up them. I blame school photographers.
I used to take loads of dummy photos with the film camera. ie., I'd put a film in the camera but not actually have it connected to the winding mechanism, shoot lots of pictures so that they heard the shutter go and the flash fire, do a rewind and another dummy load, shoot again, until they were comfortable with camera to ignore it. Then the real shoot would take place. With a digital camera you sort of have to "show them the photo" every now and then so have a spare card.
Of course that might not be possible as your doing a makeover shoot, so it depends how quickly the "having my photo taken" thing wears off and she starts to behave naturally. I'd try to have someone else directing the makeover so that you aren't part of it but just there.
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