A Christmas Challenge

This Christmas season we, the parents of the Jones household, joined Moms and Dads everywhere in the age old ritual of attempting to get a reasonably good picture of our child in front of the Christmas tree.  This is, as you might expect, a deceptively difficult task.  And my guess is that as the child's age increases, so to increases the level of difficulty in capturing a successful photo-op.

With our picture for the year recently completed I thought I'd share the long and sometimes frustrating progression to get that one decent shot.  Here are all of Aiden's attempted Christmas pictures, along with the reason that each one didn't make the cut...

Waving:

Shouting:

Jumping:

Interpretive dancing:

Head too high:

Head too low:

Eyes too sad:

Eyes closed entirely:

Clearly desiring to bean the camera man with a Christmas ornament:

And finally, the winner:

Whew!