Santa

Ella had made a major break through with this whole Santa thing. last year she was still terrified of him. This year she is like a whole knew person!! We went to Dallas a few weeks ago for a wedding, and we saw him at the Frisco mall...she insisted she wanted to sit on his lap and talk to him. We actually had to talk her out of it. I told her Creighton wasn't there to be in the picture with her, and she didn't care. She still wanted to see him. The only thing that worked was that she still needed to write her letter to him and she needed to have it when she saw him. whew! They were HIGH! It was like $25 for one photo! I would have paid it if we had Creighton too, but not that picture in addition to another one with both of them.

I was thinking that the mall in Wichita Falls had a drop box for the North Pole so Ella and I waited to send her letter till we were home recently. Of course when we went to the mall, we couldn't find anything like that. We went to Santa's station but there was no mail box and Santa was on a break. Ella wasn't happy but dealt with it. As we were walking to leave the mall, we looked up and saw SANTA walking out of a store (temporary tattoo store, lol). We walked over to him and she hugged him and gave him her letter. She actually smiled for a photo too. Shocking!!!






Monday I was planning to take the kids to finally see Santa at our mall. She had gymnastic that morning and Santa was due to make an appearance there as well. I was a little worried because I keep thinking she is going to catch onto this whole scheme. There are just too many Santas everywhere to make this real. I could tell she was excited when she saw Mr. Clause (a 20yr old male with brown hair, glasses, stick skinny, and an "emo" like voice and vocabulary)...she ran up to him and got a candy cane from him. She starred him down and then took a big group picture with him and the other kids. The moment we got in the car she said "Mom, that's not the Santa who delivers the presents, is it?". lol, I knew she noticed something. I explained that Santa sends "Santa Helpers" out to make appearances because he can't be everywhere at once. When we went to the mall later, she saw him walk by and said "MOM! That's the real Santa, right?". haha she could tell him "looked" like a Santa.




Man, I like the idea of Santa, but having to make up lies isn't fun?

Here is the official Santa 2010 picture. I blame the photography lady for not getting a good picture. I had them both smiling for what seemed like forever. She took 2 pictures the entire time ( like at least 5 min ). Creighton just wanted to pull Santas beard. He wasn't scared of him at all. Just wanted that beard!!! Santa was hurting I think.. he kept saying "YUP, it's real!". haha!