Let's take a step back to one year ago...Jax with Santa. Clearly not having a great time, but not scared of the man that treats him so well this time of year
Now fast forward to one year later. Jax had his first Santa visit a week and 3 days ago to be exact. Santa was nice enough to visit Jaxon's daycare. I had my camera all ready for our test run prior to our Saturday visit with Santa. As you will notice, no pictures will appear on this blog from that day. Why, you ask? Because Jax clung to me and his teacher Miss Dee and would not even go near Santa...not even for a candy cane. I was prepared for the next visit. We headed over to Bloomington before lunch and Jax slept about half of the way. At Meatheads, he enjoyed his french fries. He was in a great mood and we were ready to head over to mommy's work. Here we are getting ready for our visit...everything looks good. We even walked very close to Santa and Jax couldn't take his eyes off him!
Then it was our turn. Ryan told me to get ready and he would hand Jax over once I was in place. I was ready. I thought, maybe this time will be different...I was wrong. I will say it looks much worse than it was. We were not torturing this poor child regardless of how it seems...
We even tried marshmallows...no luck
We made it a quick visit and got Jax off of Santa's lap quickly. Jax seemed to recover quickly as he got his new toy...blocks. Then we headed over to some other cute photo ops...
A cute family photo under the fireplace
Enjoying Santa's sleigh
On the way home, Jax guarded his toy...no one threatened to take it away so maybe he was just so excited
We made it through! Post Santa visit, Jax now recognizes Santa in books and on TV and gets excited to see him. He can even quote him "Ho, Ho, Ho." I wish he would act like that in person! Maybe next year...
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