Living in a developing country has many perks (all the help, please) but it also has drawbacks. One drawback is that our Santa pictures are always with a Marine who kindly volunteers to dress up in the 10 year old Santa suit that the community liaison’s office has. So, as you can imagine I was pretty excited to take the kids to a real Santa! And apparently the U.S. has gotten fancy. You can now make an appointment to see Santa and not have to wait on line for hours and hours, thanks Uncle Shawn for waiting on line to make an appointment!
We got to the mall, had some dinner and headed off to meet the big guy himself. Malcolm told me all day he was scared and didn’t want to see Santa. I told him he didn’t have to talk to him if he didn’t want to. Adam was prepared. He has been asking for a roboraptor that he saw on our trip to Kohls and Malcolm wanted a robodinosaur also spotted in Kohls. Thank you Kohls, one trip to find winter mittens and Christmas list sorted.
After a short wait it was our turn! Malcolm all of a sudden wasn’t scared and went right up to Santa and with some help from Adam told him what he wanted. Adam was ready and went right up and sat down on Santa’s lap. He was so sweet and helped Malcolm remember what to ask Santa for. I loved looking at these pictures later and seeing Malcolm feeling Santa’s beard. Malcolm loves soft things and loved rubbing the beard. Santa may not have been so pleased, but luckily he was a patient Santa.
I wanted to get a picture of Miral with Santa and she nailed it. She’s too young to have stranger danger so had no qualms being held by Santa. I was a little nervous she would slide off his big lap but I’m guessing Santa has a lot of practice holding babies.
And then I even got a picture with all three kids and no one is crying! Miral is trying to eat Santa’s fuzzy sleeve but I’ll take it!
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