No Santa Pictures

Yesterday we were so excited to get Kyla all dressed up in her pretty little christmas dress to go get pictures with Santa. The moms group had recomended a good photographer in the area who was doing Santa pictures at a baby boutique. The Santa looked great and Kyla just stared at him and gave him smiles while we waited in line. Then, the second we walked up to him once it was her turn she screamed, cried and clinged to me. Both me and Jon tried to sit with her and Santa to cheer her up, but it did not help. We waited around for awhile hoping she would change her mind and want to sit with Santa after watching more kids get their pictures done, but that did not happen.

After leaving, we came home and read stories with Santa in them and showed her last years pictures of her with Santa and her Cousins Mason and Madeline with Santa. She was even giving Santa kisses in the pictures. They were doing pictures again today, so we were wanting to warm her up to the idea of wanting to sit on Santa's lap. We really want to have a Santa picture and know that my mom and Jon's mom both want a picture as well, so we were really hoping she would like Santa. Lately she has become a bit more shy about going up to new people, so we were prepared for her to not want anything to do with Santa this year.

So, today I got her all dressed up again and the second we walked into the store she got scared and started clinging to me and crying. We waited around for awhile for her to calm down and I even tried sitting with her for the picture, but she was very very upset and so we ended up leaving again with no photo. We might try again in a couple of weeks, just before Christmas, but we will give her a break for now so we don't traumatize her.