happy st. nick's day

well in honor of St. Nick's Day, I thought I'd post a picture of Alicia and good ole Santa. We went to see Santa this year at the Walmart where Grandma and Aunt Mary works. This is my plug for the day if you haven't taken the kiddos out to see Santa yet, try your local Walmart this weekend. I thought I saw online that he's there this weekend still. It sure does beat the long Santa lines in the big malls, plus, you get a free picture from Santa for visiting! Such a great deal!

Ok, so back to Alicia and the dude in red... At first, Alicia and I walked up to him and she pretty much held on to me not wanting to get very close. Sure we've been talking about Santa and have seen a few picture book with him in it, but I still think she's at the "holy crap, who is this" stage of understanding Santa. She did say "ho-ho-ho" to him, so that's good recognition, I guess. So after the first denial of sitting on Santa's lap, mommy called reinforcements in, and had Grandma come over (since she knows this Santa well) and it seemed to help a little bit. Alicia atleast then would sit with Grandma next to Santa for a quick picture. Hopefully Alicia emailed Santa her list this year because I don't think she waited enough to tell Santa in person what her list was. She got her candy cane and was like that's enough.