Ho Ho No!!!

Ah, the annual tradition of taking your young children to see the scariest man on the planet - how can a parent resist?

This was the best picture we got of both boys and the jolly old elf:


Not bad, considering this is what the experience really looked like:


In the past, when we've taken Zach to see Santa, he has never sat on the big guy's lap. We would just encourage him to walk up to Santa and say hello, and we'd take pictures of him standing close and talking to him. This year, Santa persuaded Zach to climb up and tell him what he wanted for Christmas, and it was cute to see how uncharacteristically shy Zach was!


The fact that Zach was on Santa's lap was why we tried just plopping Charlie down too, which obviously didn't work. If we attempt this again next year, I think we'll go back to our strategy of letting Charlie approach this stranger at his own pace.