Friday, December 11, 2009

Date with Santa

Twas the night before meeting Santa and Calyn was afraid. She wanted to impress him but was told the naughty list she had made.... OK so let me explain.... the night before last I was reading to Calyn and right before snuggle time I asked her if she was excited to see Santa. She sat there all quiet and said "I am but I don't want him to know I am on the naughty list" I said who told you that you were on the naughty list? and she said "Drewski did" I said have you been mean to Max? "No" Have you been mean to Corry? "No" Have you been mean to Drewski (long pause) "No" I said then why would you be on the naughty list? She just sort of shrugged her shoulders. I said the one that decides if you are on the naughty or nice list is Santa and no one else. She seemed satisfied with that and soon fell asleep.
Fast forward to the next day, Mom and Merrick took the kids to the mall and after work I met them there. To my surprise, they told me that Calyn had been crying and did NOT want to see Santa. The whole time she was saying "I don't want to sit on his lap" and was on the verge of tears. Max on the other hand was cutting in line and very eager to meet the white bearded man. Once we got up there, Santa was talking to the kids and Calyn was talking to him but still did not want to sit on his lap so she stood in front of him while Max sat on his lap with this expressionless look on his face (you'll see) For the last picture Santa finally got Calyn to sit on his lap but of course for that one neither of the kids were looking at the camera so I didn't choose that one.
After the pictures were taken I was selecting the best one and Santa set the kids down. Calyn immediately ran over to me and Max turned around and just stared at "The Man" the look on his face said it all "HE DOES EXIST"!!! It was priceless. I just wish they could have gotten a picture of that!
So here it is the picture of the kids with SANTA!!!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Poor Calyn...I bet she was a nervous wreck...thinking that Santa was going to ask that horrible question...naughty or nice...???of course she's been nice...and Max was all calm...cute pictures...Hugs, Grandma