Santa Claus

For the past two years Skylar has been pretty scared of the big ole guy in the red suit that comes around Christmas. Jonathan, Skylar and I decided to go to the mall and do some shopping and let Sky play on the playground and ride the carousel and jump on the trampoline and all of that fun stuff. She has a boo boo on her face that is right by her lip so Jonathan and I were not going to do Santa pictures until this went away. We get to the mall and she does the spider jump first, of course. Then we eat lunch and get some ornaments made and she notices Santa. She gets all excited and says, "I want to go see SANTA!" I said, "Okay baby, you want to sit in his lap and take a picture with him?", She is so excited and says, "YEAH!". Jonathan and I kind of look at each other like well, we should not really pass this up since she is so excited to see him. We walk straight up to the lady, no one else was in line, Jonathan and I are talking to her while Skylar just goes right over to Santa and hops up in his lap and they are just talking. She takes the absolute cutest pictures and then her and Santa are talking about what she wants for Christmas and they give each other a big hug and she waves bye and says, "Bye Santa, I love you!". I mean it was just so priceless and such a big deal because she is always terrified. Let me back track to last year real quick...... Sky was 2 so Jonathan and I took her to see Santa in Millington and there was a long line, it was cold, after she waited patiently in line, we are starting to get closer to her turn. I kept making a big deal about it and telling her he is so nice and has candy, yadda yadda. She is pretty excited, she kept saying, "I want to see Santa". So we are the last ones in line and it is her turn...Santa calls her name and she just starts screaming crying. So pitiful. I went up there with her and she did not want any part of him. She did quit crying and sat on my lap while Santa attempted to talk to her. Our picture turned out okay. I was sitting beside Santa and she was frowning in my lap. And the year before that, she was crying and I was sitting on Santa's lap. I'm sure he just loved that. So needless to say this was a HUGE deal that she sat by herself on his lap and she fell in love with him. She did not have on her perfect Christmas outfit and her boo boo was there but the whole experience of seeing Santa was so worth it that it did not even matter! We went up to pick up our ornaments on the second floor and we looked down to see Santa later on. Skylar yells out, "Santa!!", he did not hear us, she yells again, "SANTA CLAUS!!" He turns and waves so big at her and that just made her day!! It just made my day too. Good times at the mall. Meanwhile we get home and catch our little doggie eating our popcorn string off the Christmas Tree! MERRY CHRISTMAS!