lybbfam: Breakfast With Santa

Friday, December 30, 2011

Breakfast With Santa

Every year we get up close and personal with Santa and Mrs. Claus at the zoo! We LOVE this fun tradition we have been doing since Lindsie was a baby. It is a small group so the kids get to spend as much time as they would like talking with Santa and Mrs. Claus.

The monkeys are our favorite -- we could watch them all day long

We kind of miss the days that our kids would cry and scream bloody murder when we would put them on Santa's lap. ha ha ha

Now, Santa is their buddy they see every year and he remembers them from year to year. He even asks about Eddie the Elf, who Santa sends to our house every year on Dec 1st to watch over and report what he sees. Yup, Santa tells the kids that Eddie has been reporting if they have been naughty or nice

Mallory and Mrs. Claus have always had a special bond since Mallory was about 2 years old. She was way more excited to spend time with Mrs. Claus than Santa!

1 comments:

Lisa Erskine said...: What a fun family tradition! I wouldn't be watching those monkeys for too long...the kids might learn a thing or two from them! :); December 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM

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Funny things my kids say .....

-- Mallory was watching T.V. when a preview came on for an upcoming movie called Coraline. She came and asked me to please come turn on Coraline for her to watch in the theater. I told her that I was sorry, but I don't have that movie and I can't turn it on for her. She continued to beg and cry for me to turn it on, she even took me by the hand into the theater. I was getting frustrated with her and explained, "Mallory, I cannot turn it on for you, I don't have the movie. We have to go see it at a theater." She said, "Mom, the T.V. said it is now playing in theaters everywhere!" Poor little girl ... this life is so confusing for a 3 year old. Shouldn't it play in our home theater too!
-- Mallory was having one of those days where she was being very defiant. I was putting her in her bed and I said, "Mallory, do you think that tomorrow you could wake up and be a good girl and choose the right." She said, "okay mom, I'll choose the right, not the left."
-- Lindsie was busy doing her homework tonight and was talking about warm blooded vs. cold blooded. She was telling Troy that humans are considered mammals because "we have hair." Troy immediately said, "So Uncle Jeremy isn't a mammal" (Uncle Jeremy shaves his head bald) I was laughing so hard I was crying. Sorry, Jeremy, your not a mammal like the rest of us!
-- We were getting ready for the Halloween party. The basement was all decked out with spooky sounds and decorations. Mallory said, "mom, I'm so scared." I said, "It's okay Mallory, its just pretend, it's just Halloween." She said, "but mom, I'm only a child."
---Today I was making lunch for Mallory. I got out the bread and started spreading peanut butter all over it. Mallory started to cry and said in a very upset tone, "no, mom I don't want peanut butter on my bread!" So I said, "well what do you want on it?" Mallory said "I just want my bread to be naked."
---Mallory's preschool teacher emailed me and told me this funny story about Mallory. They were doing science centers and talking about what sinks and what floats. After they were finished she heard Mallory calling to her from the bathroom, "teacher, teacher, come see ... my poop is floating! She said Mallory was so excited about this new discovery.