Dear Santa

It’s that time of year again!!! We thought we’d take Noah to see Santa, even though we didn’t think he would really like it this year, but figured it was worth the memory!!! Santa was going to be at the gym Rick goes to and it’s only a few miles down the road.

We were actually a little early – yeah, early, can you believe that?!?! Rick thought it started at 9:00 and we got there about 9:20 to find out that it started at 9:30. (So technically, we were early by mistake!) We were pretty lucky that we were number 7 in line!! They also had breakfast there, so we got to have some pancakes and sausages to eat too. Noah devoured his pancake, and we even fed him breakfast before we left! It was a nice distraction while we waited for our number.

I was holding Noah so we could watch Santa before his turn, hoping that he would be okay to sit on his lap. I thought he might actually do pretty good because as we are standing in line, I asked him were Santa was and he got all excited and pointed to him. Then it was our turn…no such luck! As soon as I sat him on Santa’s lap, he looked up at him and started crying. We tried to get him to smile, but that just wasn’t going to work. The helper asked if I wanted to be in the picture and I told her nope – we wanted to capture the memory that Noah didn’t like it! Is that mean???

On Noah’s defense, he does have a pretty bad cold, so he hasn’t really been himself the last couple of days. So that could be part of it too. Before the picture, he didn’t look the best anyway…runny nose, coughing, red eyes. Maybe we shouldn’t have even tried the Santa thing, but if we didn’t do it now, we wouldn’t have gotten it done. I don’t think we are ever going to wait in the line at the mall for a picture with Santa. That might have all of us crying by the time we see Santa!!!