I am not sure whose big idea it was to try to get a Santa photo on the Saturday before Christmas, but it was a.bad.idea.
We left the house at 9:45 and headed to Northpark Mall hoping we would kill 2 birds with 1 stone--trains and Santa pic. Who knew the Northpark Santa took APPOINTMENTS!!! His first available was 6 pm so at 10:30, that sounded a tad too long to wait. We did listen to him tell some stories though.
He does look like the real deal...ours was wearing pajamas that showed under his suit and he tried to kiss the lady in front of us after giving her a very uncomfortable looking hug...he was not worried about keeping it PG rated--ewwwww...but that pic will come later. Here is Mr Liam so excited listening to Santa's stories.
Rowan was not too excited about it...ha!
So then we headed to the trains. Rowan was wide awake so she hung out in the Bjorn with mommy and Liam and daddy checked all of the trains out. We had lots of fun.
Then it was time for diaper changes and mommy fed Rowan. 45 minutes later once that was complete, we headed to the Galleria to see the big tree and catch a Santa photo there...only when we got in line Santa went on his lunch break til 2pm. :/ ugh.....so we looked at the tree had some lunch and yet again did diapers and gave Rowan some lunch.
Daddy left to get in line and there was already over an hour wait...the problem was mommy had NO IDEA WHERE DADDY WENT when we came out of the nursing room...he had called my phone which was with him in the stroller. Oh my! With NOTHING I carried Rowan around Nordstrom looking for Liam and daddy, then to the play area, and back to Nordstrom thinking I missed them...nope finally went to check the line after 20 minutes of searching and there they were. Liam was eating goldfish off of the floor and he had already had it but we still had an hour to go. He threw a few temper tantrums, ran around the line with daddy a few times, threw some snacks all over and by the time we got up there he almost passed out on Santa's lap because he was so tired. Rowan fell asleep 2 minutes before we got up to santa...of course! But we did get a pic...with the most interesting Santa I have ever met. Think he may have been hitting the bottle on his lunch break.
A MESS
And a sleeping baby but....
We got a pic!! MERRY CHRISTMAS 2011 Love, the Blakes
and ps...here is a good pic on Rowan's cute outfit...she was a little too big for it and busting out of the crotch, but looked soooooo cute!
a crayon made it in the pic too ;) HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
No comments:
Post a Comment