You are currently browsing the monthly archive for December 2007.
We finally were able to get our yearly visit with Santa. Whew! Right now I only have 4 years of Santa pictures on my flickr site, but I hope to update with all 9 of them.
I think there are 9, I know we had one year that Buddy was NOT interested in seeing Santa. Nope, nu-uh… until 2pm on Christmas Eve. We got to the mall and counted the number of families in line, did the “well each person takes about 3 min’s” calculation and realized we’d get to the front of the line JUST as Santa took his hour break. And by then we’d be late for Christmas dinner at my family’s. He was able to get his attention and wave to him, but no picture.
In 2003 or 2004 Sweetie had no interest in seeing him and started crying just as we got to Santa. We tried to get her to sit with him, but no dice. So Santa (we’ve had the same Santa for at least 5 years) told her “oh, no I have something I forgot to do here in the back” and walked behind the stage while we put her and Buddy in the huge chair. Then once she had calmed down, he snuck back in for the picture. It may be my favorite one! Although they are all awesome!
After much apathy, whining, and dragging of the feet (excuse the pun), Sweetie – my darling little left-hander in a family full of right-handers – finally learned to tie her shoes!
Woo!
I was told this would make a good topic to blog about (by Sweetie herself, of course), so I got the camera out and documented the process over the Thanksgiving weekend. Already just a week later, she’s gotten much better and will be a pro in no time.
