Visiting Santa

DJ is off work this week so, we headed to the mall to visit Santa. This was the 3rd visit to Santa for the kiddos this year and I was very please with this visit! Yes, me & DJ had to be in the photo to help the girls, who did a great job- standing that close to Santa is super. Austen did a super, super great job by walking up & sitting on Santa's lap! I was in shock! All morning Austen kept saying he was going to sit on Santa's lap. I didn't really believe him seeing this would be the 3rd visit to the man in the big red suit & both other times he would barely get close to him without crying, but then once we were home he'd say "I sat on Santa's lap" when he surely didn't.

The kiddos don't quite understand to tell Santa what they want for Christmas. When we ask them what they'd like Santa to bring they say "Presents". When we ask what they'd like the presents to be, they say "Toys". Sometimes Austen will say "Lightning McQueen" or they will all start asking for "chewies", that is what we call fruit snacks. So, I hope Santa can handle that this year, pretty easy requests.

Our other visits to Santa didn't go so well....

The first was at DJ's work Christmas party for kids. They were all excited to see Santa, saying they were going to sit on his lap, telling us what they wanted Santa to bring and all excited..... but the line was horribly, horribly long. I think we were in line for over an hour!! That was too long for me, much less when you are 2 1/2! We stood in line singing Christmas songs, eating cookies and anything else I could think of to distract them! Once we were inside the room where they could see Santa, they got even more excited, but when it was actually our turn.... different story! We had 3 crying, screaming 2 year olds on our hands!The 2nd trip to see Santa was at the MAMOM (Marion area mother's of multiples) Christmas party which was at the Playstation (the kids had a blast there!) Santa & Mrs. Claus were both there, but the kids wouldn't get close enough for a picture. They barely got close enough to grab a candy cane from Mrs. Claus. This was a fun visit though because we had more time in the room with the Claus' and we chatted with them for a few minutes from about 3 feet away.