Santa

We finally took Blakeley to see Santa for the FIRST TIME today. I know some of you are thinking, "But Blakeley is 18 months old....this is her second Christmas". And you would be right. This is her second Christmas, however, last year I never took her. I know, I know, Mother of the Year! But last year at Christmas break we all got a stomach bug one after another and so we never got around to it. Thankfully, I'm pretty sure that Blakeley will not be traumatized by not visiting Santa at 6 months old.

So back to visiting Santa today. We had high hopes! We went to Lenox knowing that we could use our own camera to take the pictures and not be hounded to buy anything (thanks for the tip Amy)! Everything started off great! She was happy to play in the North Pole "tunnel".

And we even made sure that she got to have a snack while she waited...


Sadly, we waited almsot 45 minutes, and it was getting close to nap time, and well you can put two and two together...someone went hysterical! Justin said he knew it was going to be bad when it was Blakeley's turn and she had a death grip on him.

She was literally only there by herself for 10 seconds...


Unfortunately, even when I tried to help out, Blakeley immediately hugged Hop Hop so tight and tried to get into my lap. She wanted NOTHING to do with Santa. Poor guy! And Poor Blakeley!

Doesn't she look traumatized and relieved all at the same time?

But she felt much better once we left the mall, and Daddy put her on his shoulders!
We also had high hopes for the wodnerful Atlanta tradition of riding The Pink Pig. However, the line for that was 10 times worse! There was no way! Maybe after Christmas we can make another city adventure!