These Are The "Good" Ones

So I realized I have a depressingly short supply of pictures with both Tycho and Mara, just Tycho and Mara. If both of them are in the picture, so am I (it's just easier to get them both to sit still if I'm sitting there with them, in the picture). So I decided to sit them down in front of the Christmas tree a couple days ago and see if I could remedy this. I grossly underestimated the difficulty of getting a good picture of these two. But, after a painstakingly long couple minutes, this is what we ended up with:

sure, now she can smile, when it's all over...