On Monday I told you that I finally was able to get Ryan to sit near Santa.  The one thing I failed to mention is that I was totally unprepared for the experience.  Jenn will be the first to tell you that I don’t always think things through and even if I have the best of intentions, I don’t always generate the best of results.  I’d say, unequivocally, this is one of those times. 

For those of you who’re wondering what I’m talking about, perhaps you’ll indulge me with a little test.  Can you point out three things wrong with this otherwise cute picture of Santa and Ry-guy?

I’ll wait… take a good look!

Ready?

Now, for all the men who’re looking at this picture.  Do you know that Army Green and NY Giants Red doesn’t match?  I always thought Green and Red were Christmas colors! 

#2.  Did you notice the spaghetti left all over Ryan’s face?  I swear I wiped his mouth clean so I have no idea where he got that… perhaps he was storing some food like a chipmunk.

#3.  This is much harder but take a look at the lower right hand corner of the picture.  Apparently the chipmunk spaghetti fell onto the shirt.

There’s more.  Things like the fact that he’s in a t-shirt, or that he drooled all over his shirt.  How about the fact that I was distracting him in such a way that he would take his eyes off the camera and look at me. 

All in all, this was a failure. The one thing I can say about this particular failure though was I had a lot of fun while I was failing….