I was being perverse...he must have grown suddenly, or they sat him on a stack of cushions; how did he get so much taller?
His image has been superimposed - to make it look as if he’s sitting next to his ‘mother’
Yes, I understand he’s “taller” in that other one but just thought he was sitting on his knees. However, he has a different pose than in both - different head angle, different smile, different shirt wrinkles, and Ann’s eyebrow is higher. That’s a lot of manipulation for what purpose?
In the “shorter” one, his knees have marks on them. Could be from normal kid stuff or from kneeling on that bench from the other pose. Why? Who knows.
The necklace is hanging from the collar differently. That’s two separate poses.