Day Eight: Cheeeeese!

I have a suggestion if you would like a good work out: attempt, without the aid of photographer, to take a family photo, but make sure there is a wriggly, energetic one year old joining in. Exhausting!

This was our activity last night and it was good fun. We knew that we needed the evening free for something else, so we chose to do something before we put Reuben to bed. We've got nice photos of Reuben, but we've not got any decent photos of the three of us together and so we thought it would be a fun and worthwhile activity to do. Little did we realise how hard such a simple thing could be! How naive we were...

We have a decent camera - a Canon something or other - and it has a rapid-fire timer function that is quite handy for things like, um, taking a family portrait. The plan was to set up the camera on the coffee table, point it at the sofa, and hey presto. I can remember doing a similar thing as a child; all getting donned in our Sunday best (or it might have been taken on a Sunday in which case we would already have been in Sunday best, because we actually did have Sunday best), hair brushed to within an inch of its life, and sitting and posing smartly. So that was the plan. Ish.

But in reality.....Reuben was exceptionally wriggly, determined to escape and climb up the stairs instead, and then mesmerised/stunned/in awe/baffled by the flashing and clicking of the camera, exaggerated by its rapid firing. So the majority of the photos are me and Tom with goofy smiles, struggling with Reuben who is contorted into a weird position trying to escape while simultaneously staring wide eyed at the camera with a dazed and confused look on his face. All good fun!

So what with the energetic exertions of trying to contain a boisterous one year old on the sofa, and jumping up and down every few seconds to check and reset the camera, then like I said - a good work out. I was exhausted afterwards, but we did, at least, finally get one or two decent photos. I won't be posting the photos on here, and instead was going to find some comedy ones off the internet to share with you, but I've just had a look and they're all just creepy and weird, so I'm not going to. You can have a look if you want! You have been warned!

**Spoiler alert: Watch this space for a future activity on our list - a themed family photo!! And I promise to post the finished result of that on here**