Photo shoot with my four year old

Scenario:  Mom gets a decent camera and thinks she can take on the annual birthday picture of her four year old.  Mom buys a new shirt for the pictures.  Mom picks out a fun location right down the street from her house but needs to wait until the lightening is right.  Mom is out-of-control busy and never gets around to it...until one day in December when she has a spare fifteen minutes and notices that the lighting looks good.  Mom bribes four year old (who has been four for five months now) to change his shirt and get in the car.  Good thing it's about fifty degrees.  What was I expecting???

 Not too excited to begin

 Plaster on smile & cheese it up 

 Did I mention he wasn't too excited to be doing this?

 Trying to look animated or stay warm?

 Honestly, this boy is just a goof-ball

 "I really don't want to do this, Mom"

 This kid looks at me from the top of his eyes JUST LIKE HIS DAD

 Imitating Vector from Despicable Me because of course I want to put that up on my wall

 Cold, cold hands -- are we done yet?

 Vain attempts to look happy for Mom when wanting to be done 

 Does a smirk count as a smile?

 Really, really done

"Please, Mom, can we be done?"

Poor kid!  But there were a couple shots that captured my wonderful little boy the way I was hoping for:

This kid is just so cute.  Remember, I only took the time to make him change his shirt and I wasn't paying attention to his pants or shoes...but look at that face!  Am I just the luckiest mom or what?