photo opportunity

This morning, I got the girls dressed in their new winter outfits courtesey of Grandmom. E's is a cute printed t-shirt and skating skirt, with sparkly-farkly snowflakes, with matching tights...A's is a dress with coordinating tights. As soon as they put them on, they started twirling around the room singing their Princess song. I lovingly styled A's unruly mop hair into two piggles, and put E's bedhead into one piggle, with matching elastics. They looked picture perfect, which was the point as today was the day I was taking the Christmas Card picture.

Dun-dun-dun!

Round 1 ended after taking one picture of E making a weird smirky face, and A screaming "Pancake! Pancake! I want PAAAAAANCAAAAAAKE!"

Round 2, after breakfast, ended abruptly with A yelling "I go poop in the potty!"

Round 3 (it was a successful potty trip) ended with E, after I explained that I was trying to take their picture to send to all of our friends, asking

"Why don't you just color some pictures and send that instead?"

So, I might try again this afternoon. But after a day of school the kids definitly look a little ragged. Luckily I have an ace in the hole if I'm unsuccessful.

To cheer myself up, I Elfed the Slacker fam. They have all sorts of new dances available this year...and I actually giggled out loud at the Disco one. I think it's because pretty much every move shown in the video is in my dancing repitoire. Enjoy!

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