Jaylee's Favorite Guy this Season...

We finally went to see Santa the other day. Jaylee has been asking to go see him for awhile but with crazy work schedules we just hadn't both had time off to go take her. We finally did and she was SOOOO EXCITED!!!

He is her new favorite guy this season, I'm sure it will go back to Daddy after she gets her presents!!!

In the Car ready to go, she was super happy!!

Going into the mall

And checking him out from a distance.
So this is how it went down. All the way over to the mall she is so excited. She sees him and is trying to cut in front of the other little kids already waiting in line. Then it's our time to go in and she tells the elf person, "Not yet!" Finally she goes in just looking at him from a distance still checking him out. She sits in the little chair kind of next to Santa but she's not talking to him and she's not about to get close to him. They're taking her pictures saying it's so cute etc. but Brady and I are saying that's not what we want. Then Daddy has the brilliant plan to just put her in his lap. Freak Out happens and she is fighting to get away from him. All the Elf's thought it was so cute of a picture, but I'm saying no way. She has been so excited to see him, she'll sit on his lap. So we have a little chat with Jaylee alone and remind her that she had told us a couple of things that she wants for Christmas and that she should ask Santa for them. So she runs back to Santa and puts her arms up like Hold Me and starts telling Santa, "I need my presents!" He tried asking her what she wanted but all she kept telling him was "please bring my presents, I need them!" You see we paper-coordinate in our family since Jaylee knows what her name looks like in writing, so she won't know which presents are hers. When she's gotten a little curious about them, I'll tell her it's for this person or that person, and then tell her that Santa will bring her presents. I know it's mean but it's kept her out of the presents so far. Not one has been opened this year that wasn't given permission to open. I guess my theory works for now. I'm sure next year I'll have to think of another lie to tell her!! But in the end she didn't want to leave Santa and she tried to go back after we had left. Good thing this trip is only once a year!!!