Santa Clause

I had the day off yesterday and Emily and I went to the mall. Matt was home sick and so we were trying let him get some rest. Santa has been at the mall for about a little over a week and Emily's been talking about him ever since we saw the display up for Christmas. We were walking by were Santa is at and he was waving to her. She kept telling me she wanted to go see him and I asked her if she would get a picture with Santa. I didn't think she would, but to my surprise she did and talked to him very quietly about her friends and her mommy and daddy. It was too cute.

At first Santa got down on his knees on the floor with Emily until she warmed up a little to him. We tried everything to get her to smile and all she does is say 'Cheese'. I think there was at least five or six different pictures of her with the same expression. After I finally picked a decent one Santa gave Emily a coloring book and she opened it up and started to read to him in some jibberish. I started cracking up. He was going along with it since there were no other kids in line. I wasn't expecting to see Santa this early, especially before Thanksgiving, but I figured we might as well since there was hardly a line to see him. Emily has already told me she wants lots of BIG presents from Santa. She better be a good girl the rest of the year. LOL