But promise me that the next time I haul out the camera and attempt to take your photo you won't do this...
Or this...
And, you'll especially avoid this...
I don't understand what it is about the trifecta of me, my kids, and my Canon that produce the most hideous, most unbecoming, amateurish, I-can't-believe-you-put-that-crap-on-a-card photographs of all time.
I don't have a problem making other people's kids look nice together.
But, when it comes to my own I get a crap load of wandering eyes and poop tongue faces that quickly ruin an otherwise perfect family portrait.
The past two years I had to send the cards out with individual shots of each of the kids in their own little box because I got sick of posing and reposing their uncooperative little selves while sweating up a storm and threatening their lives. It wasn't good for any of us.
So maybe I'll go with that idea again and I'll feature them each in their own element.
#1 reading...
#2 being silly...
and, #3 doing one of the two things he does best, eating...
or getting into mischief (could he look any more guilty?!)...
Or, maybe just to prove my point I'll use this one...
Then one year, when the really-amazing-every-one's-looking-and-no-one-is-effing-it-up-with-their-dumb-expression shot finally makes it onto the card people will actually appreciate it.
I'll let you know when I capture it.
Until then we're probably just gonna go with this...
