Want to challenge your true parenting ability? Attempt to get your three children (all under the age of 5) to lie next to one another in a bed to photograph their feet. The feet feat truly lies in working to suppress the natural tendencies of any of the following situations (I’ll put this into generic terms for n+1 children) :
- Getting any male child to ignore the ‘use this time to aggravate your sibling’ gene
- Convincing the child next to the baby that it’s not toxic or vicious – nor will it’s crying inflict bodily harm
- Keeping children in the middle of the “twizzler pack” from catching a case of the “wiggly worm”
- Having your children believe that just because they are lying under a blanket, this does not mean that they are magically in a cone of silence – you can still hear them and you know they can hear you
- While great fun, ‘poofing’ up the blanket during the shoot doesn’t actually enhance the photo
The kids had a pretty good time – Isabella was proud at her ability to follow directions. Jacob was proud that he managed to lie in bed and not actually have to touch Charlotte (and still constantly move his feet like he was Michael Jackson doing the moon walk without drawing a red card from Dad).
Mom was proud that the picture turned out. Dad was proud that it took less than 200 pictures to get one that made Mom proud.