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30 Perfectly Imperfect Holiday Card Outtakes

30 Perfectly Imperfect Holiday Card Outtakes
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Managing Editor, HuffPost Voices

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Sending out holiday cards is a tradition that dates back to the Stone Age, when the cavemen painted "Ho Ho Ho, Bro" onto their cave walls (probably). Since then, the custom has taken many forms -- now, some families even send their wishes via YouTube parodies -- but there's one thing most people can count on: kids won't completely cooperate as planned. Just ask this dad, whose son kicked him in the balls during their holiday card shoot and then ran "maniacally" away, according to mom:

We asked the HuffPost Parents Facebook community to share photos of their funniest holiday card outtakes, and the submissions act as proof that putting a baby or toddler in front of a "JOY" sign does not prevent tantrums. Oh, the irony.

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Joy
Jennifer Pontes Johnson/Facebook
2
!@#! This
Tricia Maze/Facebook
3
Get This Baby Off Me
Holly Korpics Nemath/Facebook
4
Stop Crying Santa
Erin Wood/Facebook
5
Schadenfreude
Lisa Newman Crosley/Facebook
6
What Camera?
Jen Breen Regan/Facebook
7
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Sabrina Krone/Facebook
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No More Photos
Jordyn Donnellon/Facebook
9
Over It
Mandy Bredeson Reckward/Facebook
10
I Need To Free
Carrie Kizuka/Facebook
11
Let Me Just Get My Booger
Alison Chrun/Facebook
12
I Want To Play
Robyn Mccord-Dominguez/Facebook
13
NO MORE
Breanna Rush/Facebook
14
Photobomb
Sarah Hug/Facebook
15
I Win
Beryth Hammell/Facebook
16
Why Are We Holding These Giant Letters
Jana Garbutt Roy/Facebook
17
This Book Is Terrible
Elizabeth Allen-Crane/Facebook
18
It's Too Late
Kristen Hillger/Facebook
19
I'm A Dog
Tammie Stoker Shoemaker/Facebook
20
Hooray
Allison Baldoni/Facebook
21
I Hate This Sweater
Catharine Milner/Facebook
22
Christmas Ruined
Athena Abood Brown/Facebook
23
YES!
Angelica Suarez/Facebook
24
Must Climb
Holly Hackbarth/Facebook
25
😙
Jake Heather Wilson Meyer/Facebook
26
😂
Ketacha Maragh/Facebook
27
👶 👶
Pam Morton Brannick/Facebook
28
OMG
Sarah Shugarts/Facebook

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Book Bomb(24 of24)
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Without the baby, this is a pretty boring picture. (credit:<a href="http://i.imgur.com/JjvNs.jpg" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Reddit" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9e71f9e4b03a1dcc97d0c4" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://i.imgur.com/JjvNs.jpg" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0" data-vars-position-in-unit="6">Reddit</a>)

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