Hallie and the Greatest Family Christmas Photo Ever

Here we are at the Lodge on Christmas Eve - we just got back from church and were all dressed nicely and being extra good to assure that Santa would come, so we decided to very quickly get a few pictures before changing into pajamas. I personally was not very optimistic that this would work out that well - I've explained in the past how difficult it is to get both children to both look at the camera and make some kind of smiley face, and they were extra antsy following the long church service and drive home plus the Santa excitement. As you can see, our first try was close, but didn't quite have all the members looking at the camera. WILL! LOOK AT THE CAMERA!

This next picture was a little better - Will was smiling and both kids were actually looking at the camera, but whoever had the "make goofy faces and sounds to make Hallie smile" job was not succeeding. She's usually so quick to smile, I wonder why she has such a confused/concentrated look on her face?

It's because she was, at that very moment, unleashing a bladderful of pee to her already heavily saturated diaper (we hadn't changed her since coming home from church since it involves taking off her cute tights). In the time between the previous picture and the next (which was only mere seconds later), Hallie's pee seeped out her diaper, soaking her tights and skirt, and was then absorbed by Erin's Christmas dress clothes to the point where at this very instant:

...it dawns on Erin exactly what that warm, wet sensation means. The four of us might go the rest of our lives without a more classic candid shot than this one right here. I seem to be the only one who's oblivious to the situation, or I am just a Zen master in spite of the chaos of this scene - Erin has clearly just been pleasantly surprised, Hallie is concentrating on finishing her task, and Will is unable to maintain focus on the camera and is investigating the commotion.