Christmas Eve!

My Christmas gift this year was a new flash, to replace the one that was destroyed by a leaky battery. I went out and bought it early so you could all see a few pics of the kids enjoying Christmas!

Here we have Zoe and Mommy being silly together. I think Zoe was pretending to try to escape at that point, but I'm not quite sure. Just so it's clear: That's just hair whipping around. She's not actually a freakishly deformed super-child or anything.

Next up: Joel, Tommy, and Zoe sitting quietly together on the couch. Tommy felt the need to show off his Optimus Prime toy. It was originally blocking his entire face, but Joel managed to get it pushed a little way out of the road.

And here's Zoe running around like a crazy girl! The best part is that she actually was doing this on command - I asked her to go running back and forth and she obliged me! Getting her to hold still for a picture is almost impossible so I decided to try deliberately having her running around instead. It seems to have worked!

Sometime later this week I'll post pictures from today. I managed to catch decent pictures of both of the kids this morning, and we're about to head over to visit my parents and I'm hoping I'll get a few more there. No promises though.