So annually the fire department does a Santa's Ship toy drive. (Santa is escorted around various parts of town on various days, and sees all the little kids while collecting new toys for the unfortunate) I usually try to take Rilee, and this year the hype for Santa was fairly large! So my husband and I were excited to take her to see him this year. This is the child that was anxious to see Santa:
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| Mommy and Rilee |
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| Daddy and Rilee |
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| So excited the camera cant even keep up with her jumping! |
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Starting off on a good note right? Well she did fine with mommy sitting with her...and she did ok with sitting by herself...
And then we asked her what she thought of Santa to which my 2 year old responded, "I wanna go home" and that prompted me to snap this wonderful photo...
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| No mom, I don't want to see the jolly fat man again. |
Utter failure of a night? Heck no. We settled for the fact that she didn't scream while being with a big strange man surrounded by flashing emergency vehicle lights on a street corner shes never seen before in a sled that shoots out bubble like snow from a "friendly" snow man unexpectedly. We also took her here:
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| Wagner Winter Wonderland |
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Which allowed her to be more like the smiley Rilee we know:
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| So much better |
And ended our successful "Get in the Holiday Spirit" Evening!
