Visit With Santa

Yesterday after the kids got out of school, I decided to take them to the mall to visit Santa. They had been asking me all week to go, so were pretty excited when I told them. He was set up in the Food Court, and since that's the entrance we usually use, A. saw him as soon as we walked through the doors. She started jumping up and down and squealing, so it was nice to be able to take care of that right away. The line was short, thank goodness.

They were so funny when they got up there to talk to him. I'm sure they each had quite a long list of things memorized that they planned to ask him for. Well, he told them to tell him two things each they wanted him to bring them. I guess they had trouble deciding which two were most important.

After we visited Santa, we went to ride the Christmas train and hear the Bear Choir. They each got a cute little bear with a little candy cane after riding the train, so they were tickled about that. We visited the Hallmark store and got Daddy birthday cards since his birthday is next week, so we got a new George Strait Christmas CD to listen to in the car. The kids enjoyed that because they looked at all the ornaments and other Christmas decorations they had out. When they were telling their dad about it they talked about the "Christmas store." Before we left they got to ride the Carousel. That's a ritual pretty much every time we go. We had a nice time. Here's a picture: