Christmas Family Photos

"my twins"

I would just like to submit the following as proof that even taking advantage of digital cameras' ability to take millions of photos does not guarantee one good one.  I got several I liked of just Jeffrey and Arabelle, since they were willing to cooperate, but Charlotte was a different story.  She was mad because I made her wear a dress and did not want to get in the picture.

Here's John trying to insert Charlotte into the photo

We bribed Charlotte with holding the dog.

She's quite proud of herself.

Arabelle's Joy School Nativity Pageant at the Nursing Home.  She is a shepherd and she's picking at her cuticles.  Charlotte was unwilling to participate.  She was supposed to be a shepherd as well, but she was throwing a fit because she wanted Arabelle's candy cane shepherd's crook.  I had anticipated the problem of not having identical crooks for both girls and had looked around for an identical one for Charlotte but was unable to find one.  I purchased the closest thing I could find, but it was not good enough, so the best I could do was distract Charlotte from what was going on so she didn't ruin the whole play.