“Mommy! Mommy! Come take our picture!” said Iris. What a great idea! I ran in with my camera.

I was going for John & Yoko. The first 53 photos were great in terms of composition— Hugs! Laughter! Eye contact!— But the lighting was off, and I couldn’t figure out how to position the kids on the bed to fix that. Photo #54 was a grand improvement. I put them upside down on the bed and switched their sides, relative to each other. Then the light hit them just perfect. But the bed is tilted to help with Akiva’s reflux, and he’d been such a sweet patient giggly boy for so long, that with him being both up-side-down and over-tired, things deteriorated quickly. I’ll have to try again later.