Holidayish portraits

So I gave up on trying to get a nice photo of her near the tree because she moves around too much and I couldn't get the lighting right, so I sat her in a chair and got these. Thoughts? Apparently this documents her quickly and efficiently disassembling an ornament and then getting rid of the evidence. I didn't realize it until I looked through them on my computer

#3 and cropped.

I like the second the most, but the last 2 are cute too.

Kids are tough, posing is pretty much impossible...and keeping their attention isn't far behind that.

Your technique is really coming along...I definitely didn't pick things up this fast. It was (and still is) a much slower, painful process. Congrats!

This is a very nice set and I really like the lighting. You have soft shadows that add depth to the images. The only suggestion I would make is to not place her feet closer to the camera than the rest of her body. This distorts them and makes them appear larger than they actually are. You might want to consider cropping a few of your images to give you different looks. I took a stab at cropping the first image just to give you an idea (hope you don't mind). Keep shooting, you're doing great!