The Christmas Picture

For the past two years, asian husband and his cousins got together for a "Cousins Christmas". Now all the cousins are married with kids of their own and we are all around the same age. Therefore we have kids that range from about 4 months old to 7 years old. Last year we tried taking the first annual 2nd generation cousins picture to commemorate the first annual cousins christmas. And like with all pictures that involve more than one child, it was basically impossible to have all the children, sitting, smiling, and looking in the same direction.

Here is what went down last year:

*Note that little asian baby is not in any of the photos, not because she wasn't there, but because she barely had neck control and definitely could not sit up on her own. She basically would have had to lay down somewhere on the couch and risk getting trampled by her cousins*

So this is how we STARTED out....

"OK EVERYONE WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THE PICTURE!"

Now notice the baby on the very far left, Malakai,  is out of the picture. It was probably because he got off the couch. 

OK, Malakai is back, but now Harvey, whose brother was climbing over him is gone.

Now both Malakai and Harvey are out of the picture, and looks like baby Paxton (baby on the left) is just about done with the picture taking scenario too.

NOW THIS YEAR!!!

TA DA!!!

All looking in (relatively looking in) the same direction, no one is crying, no one is climbing on a sibling, and we even got someone to hold baby Zoey who can't sit up on her own yet. 

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES!!

Now I'm not saying that this picture was easy to get by any means. It wasn't like "OK KIDS PICTURE TIME SAY CHEESE!" In actuality, asian husband took about 20 photos to get this ONE. 

Most of the pictures were like this:

What are the 3 on the right looking at? And why is Paxton LICKING the banister?

and like this...

Little Asian Baby is about to go into meltdown mode...

and even like this...

and there we go into meltdown mode~

But as long as we can prove that we had one good photo, that's all the kids will see and remember and only the parents will know the true story behind the "perfect" photo. 

Maybe it'll be easier next year....

-little asian girl