This was the first year ever that both our kids would sit on Santa's lap. Last year Emily wouldn't do it and the year before that, Brian wouldn't even enter the room where the Jolly Old Elf sat.
I take Emily to storytime at the base library on tuesday mornings and Santa visited storytime one day. Emily was so excited and was practicing her "Merry Christmas" and various gift list requests. When her turn came, she climbed up and froze. Just absolute Santa-speechlessness. She was overcome. In all her little life, she has never been so choked up. This is our child who has never met a stranger and who can manipulate a smile out of the most grumpy person with one blue-eyed glance, a bounce of her curls, and a soft spoken "ciao, ciao!" Santa is Emily's vocal kryptonite, who knew?!
A few days later we attended the Ops Group Kids Christmas Party, also know as "Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, Come and Get Your Sugar!" Santa arrived in his Humvee (to navigate the numerous sugar land mines for sure) and our kids were first in line for Santa hugs (or maybe they were just checking his pockets for more sugar). We waited our turn in line and finally got our 15 seconds with the big guy....
And of course the only picture with both kids looking and smiling is also the only blurry picture I took, oh well!
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