Every mom dreams of the beautiful Santa pics she will have of her sweet and calm child sitting on Santa's lap. I knew Skylar wouldn't be able to say what she would like for Christmas....she has no idea what that means but in my heart I wanted her to say to Santa what she says to everything else....BUBBA??? !!
However, as every mom soons realizes....it doesn't quite go that way.
Let me just preface this with the fact that I was dreadfully sick with this everlasting cold of 2.5 weeks and so I wasn't looking my best or probably being the upbeat-get-child-excited-for-whats-to-come-mommy that I could've been but whatever. We get in line and I am slightly disappointed that the Santa and Mrs Claus that are usually at our site are replaced with one Santa with a gray beard (dude dye it!). Skylar starts to get very quiet and pensive and I slowly realize that this may not go as well as my dreams, however, she is just being quiet so I stay hopeful. But as I start to walk closer--the crying starts. Skylar becomes glued to me so that we are more one being than when she was in utero. Ryan of course has the camera and is so upset that Skylar is upset that he doesn't want to take a pic...because his baby girl is crying (how come that doesn't work for me!). Grey Santa tries his best to bribe my daughter with candy and toys but it is to no avail and I realize that we are ruining everyone's chances at smiling pics with Santa so we go. We got one pic you can barely see Sky's face in and I again have no makeup and look awful. Santa isn't even smiling. Merry Christmas to all!!!
Next year....makeup and a pre-lesson on taking the crying pic because it is at least a memory that we all laugh at later!
1 comments:
How funny! You have to have at least 1 crying Santa/Easter Bunny picture per child. I didn't even try Santa pictures this year figuring it would be close to your experience. Then again, Skylar is older and Ethan still doesn't have his "separation" thing fully set yet.
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