Visiting Santa Claus

It's a tradition that we go to the Americana every year and visit with Santa Claus. We have not visited him anywhere else and I like it there because the Santa is good and its the same one every year, but also I can purchase all the images on a flash drive to take home. I never pay for photography, so for once in a year occasions, like this, I will pay the money to get the images for forever. Its worth that $30 I have to pay.

I wasn't sure how Santa was going to go this year. Erik I knew was going to do fantastic and he was very excited to visit Santa. We read "Santa Bear" all the time in the Berenstein Bears collection so he was excited to make a very short list for Santa and not be overly greedy. His only request was Star Wars "stuff" which means he has no idea what is out there but wants to learn about Star Wars toys. Santa asked for clarification, but Erik didn't know.

Elliot was a wild card this year. I knew he was afraid of Santa in school this year, but then gave him a hug at the end of class. It was interesting with him. We tried to do the picture first with the boys and Elliot wouldn't do it even on the trike backed up to Santa, he was too smart for that trick this year. Then we took the family picture and the boys got to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas.

  

   

Elliot started to warm up at this point and tell Santa what he wanted. Santa's camera people kept snapping pictures because we weren't sure if Elliot would get on his lap at this point.

  

Then Elliot told him what he wanted, "wolfman" which we don't even understand ourselves. Santa's face was funny when he heard Elliot's request. I think it might be the very first time a little boy asked for wolfman for Christmas. I'll tell you the story behind wolfman.

We read this book, "The Biggest, Baddest Wolf" which is just a story about being nice to people because you never know when you will need their help in the future. Well from that book Elliot started pretending to be a wolf and during Halloween he learned about "wolfman" and this game is one of his favorites. So that is why he is asking for wolfman for Christmas... Makes sense in a two year old's brain.

Well after telling Santa what he wanted and giving him hugs he was comfortable enough to sit on his lap so we got our official Santa picture this year with no tears. This is one of the reasons why I love the Americana Santa. He was very patient with my two year old and knew exactly when he was warmed up enough to take a picture. A very smooth operation.