July 4th is America’s birthday. Yes, that’s true. But it’s also one of those Instagram-friendly days made for photo ops. A day with a hashtag. You know all your friends are going to be posting perfectly posed pics of their brood in red, white and blue and GODDAMNIT, you want an impossibly perfect pic too.
There’s only 35 potential problems standing between you and your perfect picture. What are they?
1) Your kid hates America
2) Your kid hates flags
3) Your kid hates sparklers
4) Your kid thinks he’s going to a funeral
5) Your kids don’t know what the hell to do with their faces in a photo
6) Your little one won’t stop crying
7) The fireworks are too goddamn loud
photo: @ashleeeferguson
8) The sun is in everybody’s eyes
9) Your baby won’t stop flashing people
10) Your toddler doesn’t know how to use a slide
photo: @hellomyloveblog
11) Your son really doesn’t want to come with you to the barbeque
photo: @asthestrollerturns
12) Your daughter’s pants won’t stay up
photo: @juliereberg
13) there’s a fly buzzing in your baby’s ear
14) Your daughter got a rock in her shoe
15) Your husband doesn’t know how to “act natural”
16) Your baby just wants you to HOLD HER
17) Your son won’t go anywhere without his Elmo pillow
18) Your kids hate the clothes you bought them on Etsy
19) Your kids are embarrassed by their matching headbands
20) Your son hates the lake
21) Your baby got tangled in your holiday decor
22) Your baby is giving you the finger
23) Your kids have no interest in the fireworks
24) Your kid hates his beverage
25) Your daughter won’t keep her tongue in her mouth
26) Your kid won’t take his hand off the baby’s face
27) Your kid does not appreciate what you did to his bike
28) Your kid does not want to be held
29) Your kids do not want to pose together
30) Your kid wants you to touch her worm
31) Your kid does not want to drop his bottle
32) Your kid does not want to turn around
33) Your kid just wants to get on with his life
34) Your kid just wants to find her happy place in the car
35) Your best chance for a perfect shot was interrupted by the fireworks starting
But if all the stars align, the kids are perfectly behaved and nobody dripped cherry popsicle on their shirt, you might just get a photo that looks like this:
Nah. Those kids can’t be real.
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These are so funny!! I hope you had a great 4th of July weekend (hopefully without too many photo-nightmares!) 🙂
Lauren
http://en.emoi-emoi.com/blog/
After spending the last 2 days in sweltering heat when our AC went out at promptly 10 pm, I want to thank you for helping me hysterically laugh at something! I have tears running down my cheeks. And that last photo….that would be my sister’s kids. Photo ops on que????
Haha…love all of these…my kids are the last ones. It took me five min to get them next to eachother. Finally get in position and BOOM. My youngests face…pure excitement!!
These photo ops had me giggling from the start! Thank you for sharing!
Another one your kid doesn’t appreciate the fireworks…….insert pic of a two year boy with one of his ears pinned to mom’s shoulder and his hand holding mom’s hand to his other ear…… that pic does not exist but has happen for two year running.