Say “Cheese!”
24 Dec
My husband’s family has a well-loved Christmas Eve tradition: a visit from Santa Claus, complete with gifts and photo opportunities.
One thing I find myself dreading as the kids get older is our first year without a Santa Claus. A bonus of having children as spread-out in age as ours are is that this sad event is delayed for a while. I’ve still got one “believer” in the house, and the Big Kids remember how fun the Santa tradition is for the kids. None of them want to ruin that for the little ones.
The joke in the family is that there’s always a baby at Christmas Eve, and the baby always cries when it’s time to sit on Santa’s lap. Santa and the baby must suffer through no fewer than 23 digital cameras on Delayed Flash To Reduce Red-Eye before Mommy or Grandma can rescue both of them. As soon as everyone arrives at the party, speculation will begin. Will it be the 6-month-old this year, or his toddler cousin who loses it at the very sight of Santa?
Fortunately, the terrified stage doesn’t last longer than a year or two. That’s when the little kids figure out that Santa is not scary–and he brings some pretty cool presents, too!
If you’ve got one of those “screaming with Santa” photos of your baby, you’ll need a great photo album so you can keep it forever. This personalized Teddy Bear Album holds up to 200 photo pages, and it’s super cute as well.
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