Such a cutie

Every year since he was born, I've done a "photo shoot" with Gabriel for Susan's Christmas card picture. The first year was easy - he was two months old, he had about 2 1/2 facial expressions and the neurons in his legs were not yet myelinated. We put a Christmas blanket on his bouncy chair, put him in the chair, put the chair by the tree, and voila. Not much he could do about it.

The next year, he was mobile and it was a whole other thing. I basically chased him around the living room for an hour and half (sometimes with puppets) and a few rolls of film later, we both collapsed, exhausted. Actually, I don't think he so much collapsed as tripped over his pants for the final time. The next two years, when he could communicate fairly well and understood what we were doing, it was pretty easy. This year was too (despite digressing into a little "I'm the Ghost of Christmas Past!" episode with a blanket) - one hour later, we were done. Here are a few of my favorites - I especially love the lighting on the 2nd one down. Critique if you like: