all under the tree

Most often what occurs prior to the picture taken is far more accurate in capturing the life and times of those in the staged photograph. If you could have seen the occurences before this one you'd have seen.....E forgetting to turn on the camera prior to the snap, Henry wailing and not wanting to take a picture while Ben picked up and plopped him down in spite of Henry's wishes, Samuel being sweetly smug about the fact it was Henry crying and not him, Dargan laughing and looking to climb towards Wizzy, Celia yelling about wanting to hold Dargan, Wizzy sitting calmly through the whole thing, Bennett wanting to break free and head back to the breakfast table, Dave laughing at imitating the chaos only making it worse and absolutely funnier and Mary ready to break out of the picture because it takes so much to get so many of us to smile at the same time and look in the same direction.....this is what it looked like in still frame...