Last week, John’s company had a little family-friendly appearance from Santa. We decided that every child needs a picture with Santa so we brought Jack. We weren’t too worried about him crying because the week before, we’d brought Jack to see Santa with his identical cousin.
They both just stared at him trying to figure out what the heck was going on. Not a tear was shed…except by me…who was depressed that Jack’s first Santa was a 24 year old man with a fake beard. Come on people, the economy’s rough. There have got to be old men out there with legit beards that you can hire for a day. Just make sure that they aren’t on the child predator's list and we’re good to go…
So when we walked into John’s party and saw that this Santa was the real deal, I was stoked. Jack would LOVE Santa! I even put him in his little Orient Expressed Christmas outfit that I bought to fit in with all of the Alamo Heights kids at church. This was going to be spectacular!
Just like with the first Santa, Jack stared and tried to figure out what was going on.
Once he figured out that this dude was NOT his papa, the big bottom lip emerged.
And once he caught a glimpse of me just a few feet away, all hope for cute first Santa pictures was lost…
After Jack escaped from Santa, we went over to my mom’s to take some pictures of the boys in their Santa outfits. Heck, if Jack couldn’t be happy sitting on Santa’s lap, we’d have to settle for happy pictures of him dressed like Santa.
Overall, it was quite the productive afternoon. Quite educational, too. I took away some sweet tidbits of information:
1) Real Santa is freaking scary.
2) When you constantly dress your 9 month old son like an old man, it’s weird seeing him in traditional little boy clothes. Weird and a little girly.
3) If you don’t want your child’s first Christmas pictures to look creepy, it’s a good idea to kindly ask Santa to remove his hand from your son’s crotch.
4) Brady will probably be the more responsible of the two, “No Jack! Sit still! They are trying to take a picture of us!!!”
5) Who needs Santa when you’ve got this little man to remind you that God’s gifts are amazing?
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I love his little Santa outfit! He's even precious when he's about to cry!
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