Santa fail

Last year, when Madeline screamed her head off when we placed her on Santa's lap, I said, "Oh, she'll be better next year".
Then, when I dressed her up to see the Easter bunny and she screamed, so then we had a picture of Me-mom, Mom, Madeline and me with the bunny.
This year, she LOVES talking about Santa Clause and saying, "ho, ho, ho!". So, we were so sure she would be thrilled to be placed on his lap, especially considering we told her there would be a lollipop reward after!!

Not so much. 

There's our $40 Santa picture package, including 2 5x7's, 6 wallets and 2 key chains. Santa fail!


We have been to the Herr's factory about 6 times since their light display was lit. She loves the lights so much, shouting out her colors as we ride by. They had an adorable tractor ride on Wednesday night through their display that Madeline was even more infatuated with than riding through in a car. Then, on Thursday night, it was cookies with Santa and Chipper. We even made reindeer food...which she wanted to eat because it was pretzels and glitter. She enjoyed Santa a lot more in that environment though, obviously because Chipper was protecting her.

Making reindeer food

Loving the decorations inside

Having a seat with Joshua while we wait in line for Santa.

Cutie pie

She loves Chipper!!

And tolerated Santa for the candy cane.

So, maybe next year? By then, we will have double the Santa chaos!