Keep up with the Breedorfs

This is a collage of outtakes from taking our holiday card photo this year. I set up a big mirror to one side of the camera thinking that Matt and I could make funny faces into it and thus get the kids to look in that direction and laugh/smile. Then we would also smile and quickly snap the shot. In my fantasy, we get a shot where we’re all looking in the same direction to one side of the camera and smiling sweetly. However, the remote on my camera has a bit of delay so we could never get the timing right with the goofy faces versus the smiling ones. Plus the camera would make a beeping noise to alert of the imminent shutter release and part of the time the kids would look at the camera instead. Or we would. Or none of us would be looking at either the camera or the mirror. Or some of us (I won’ t name names) would go running off, or put our shoes on our hands and bang on the window, or just be really damn squirmy.

We dragged our Christmas tree out of storage in the garage this past weekend. I had these lovely visions of Theo and me hanging ornaments on the tree together as Christmas music played softly in the background but he just wadded a bunch of tinsel and ornaments together, lobbed the resulting mass into the depths of the tree, then wandered off to play with his train table.

Oh, one more thing. We were eating grapes after dinner the other day and when Theo got down to his last two, he did something rather odd. He named them “Grandpa” and “Keiko.” (Then he ate them.)