Ho Ho Man

Waiting in line to see Santa... could barely take his eyes off of Santa for a second while I clicked this pic.
No smile, but a pic none the less...

We went to see Santa Clause today at Bud's work. We really had no idea how Samuel would react. He has been really clingy lately, but he loved seeing Truman the Tiger in his costume (we thought Santa might appear similar to a 1 year old). So, it could have gone either way. Well, he loved him, at first. Santa stuck his head in the door where we were waiting and Samuel wanted to follow him out. He laughed at him and kept pointing at him. Then, it was almost his turn and we had to physically hold him back from inturupting the boy in front of us. But, once he got up there, he sat on Santa's lap and jumped right back down, more interested in the "ba" on the Christmas tree, than the jolly old man. He sat there long enough for me to get this one smileless picture. I was impressed with the system they had at the WM home office. They had the parents fill out a sheet about the child's interests before hand, so "Santa" already knew who was coming and a little about their interests. The little boy in front of us was a little hesitant about sitting on Santa's lap, but as soon as Santa started talking about Thomas the Train with him, he didn't want to leave! :)