Santa

We went and saw all the Christmas decorations at the Gaylord the other day. As I sit here running a card rescue recovery program on my memory cards trying to figure out where my other Gaylord pics are, I will post these. I am so used to formatting my memory card for sessions that sometimes (this has happened 3 times now) I format out of habit and then later realize I deleted pictures that I wasn't done with yet. So I run a little free card rescue program and it finds all sorts of stuff and is such a pain, but at least I can recover them.

So this is Blake's first time with Santa.

She was a little nervous to get started, but was chatting away as soon as she got up there. He was so nice and not at all threatening for a sensitive child. However, the photographer was ridiculous. Of course I would be picky about children photographers, but she was banging this crazy loud hand clapper to get the kids to look at the camera and it just wasn't working too well, not a technique I would use. Babies were crying, kids were looking, but not with happy faces, just a bad plan. She did only have about half of her teeth and obviously wasn't trying to make a career out of it though, she was just trying to get a decent shot and hurry along.

Blake asked Santa for Xia-xias which is this toy she saw on a commercial a few weeks ago and has talked about over and over ever since. I know those commercials can be annoying, but they sure are helpful around Christmas time, I was able to make a huge list for Blake and Kylie by just watching their reactions and listening to them talk during commercial breaks. Kylie started stressing out and possibly regretting her decision to not sit on Santa's knee when she realized she was unable to tell him exactly what she wanted for Christmas. She had two things to tell him, a teddy bear and a present. A present? How generic. I'm sure we can pass on the message to St. Nick.