As I previously mentioned, Allison loves visiting with Santa, or rather Allison loves getting candy canes from Santa. This season we made four visits with Santa. The first trip was to the Gardens and then we had an unplanned visit when I took the girls to a smaller mall in the area to see their train exhibit. Santa was on duty that night and it didn't take Amelia long to spot him. She told me she wanted to go visit him, however as we got closer she suddenly became shy and backed off. She told Allison to go first, which caused Allison to suddenly question whether she should be so willing to go up to him. So Allison replied back, "no, you go" and this "you go first" continued back and forth with each girl nudging each other a little closer until they both broke out into tears and hid behind my legs. I stood there dumbfounded as visiting Santa has never been an issue, other than when Allison was 18 months old. Luckily Santa was an old pro at this and quickly made them feel comfortable. Before we left the mall, we had to make a return visit (twice the amount of candy canes that way).
Our third trip was to the mall that we go to every year for the "professional" picture. Once again, the worker stood there watching the girls smile, all the while saying "Smile, smile" and then taking the picture when they didn't have their natural smiles. However, I'm a sucker and will continue to go back there year after year, so we can get our annual picture with Santa.
The girls were able to visit Santa one last time when he stopped off at their daycare party. This time, the girls hit the jackpot; in addition to receiving a candy cane, they also received a small bag with treats and a very nice holiday book.
2 comments:
I love your stories. I can see the girls arguing over who goes first.
hahaha! Love it.."no, you go first, no you!"
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