and i broke that. just like i broke that santa's lap thing.
sort of.
this morning our church had a pancake breakfast. santa was the special guest and i thought it would be great for pratt to meet our "church" santa. you know, because we've all seen that horrible movie with that man from malvern...billy bob. where he is the alcoholic santa. and according to david sedaris, the santas in macy's are pretty freaky too. so i felt like we were safe with our church santa. and we were. he had a wonderful beard. and seemed really sweet.
as we were standing in line, i mentioned to clint. "gosh...i was really hoping some kid would cry. scream, maybe. be scared of santa."
clint said, and i quote, "well..hang on a minute. our child might do just that."
i said, "oh no. that starts at like 2 or 3. not 1. he will love him."
see for yourself.
here we are waiting in line. and yes, busted lip. i can't even talk about it. it hurts my heart everytime i see it. he fell and i think bit his lip. it's horrible.
still ok. not really thrilled about walking up there...but whatever.
still good. hasn't seen his face yet.
and now we're done.
i love it. he's reaching for clint, looking at me. and i absolutely love santa's face.
so, i got my wish. some kid did cry and scream. it was my kid.
and pratt, i promise to never make you do it again. next year, you can say yes or no. i don't blame you. he's not wearing a mask...but he's totally freaky.
still ok. not really thrilled about walking up there...but whatever.
still good. hasn't seen his face yet.
and now we're done.
i love it. he's reaching for clint, looking at me. and i absolutely love santa's face.
so, i got my wish. some kid did cry and scream. it was my kid.
and pratt, i promise to never make you do it again. next year, you can say yes or no. i don't blame you. he's not wearing a mask...but he's totally freaky.
5 comments:
that is the funniest santa picture ever!! i have never tried it myself, due to horrific memories from childhood. i liked santa, but not any of the mall or church santas. i only liked the "real" santa, and somehow i knew that these santas were total fakes and i was scared to death of any man weird enough to dress up like and pretend to be "the real thing". instead, the real santa would sneak around in our yard on christmas eve and run off to another house when he discovered that he was being watched through the window. that was thrilling enough for us! (plus, everyone knows that the real santa doesn't show up in photographs anyway!)
I love it!!! Yes....(in case I haven't written you back)....we will be in Bryant for several days at Christmas and I would LOVE to come over and play with Pratt! And I can only hope he will share his hugs and kisses with me! :) I'll text ya as the time gets closer to see when you guys might be available!!
that's a great picture - classic stuff ya got there, just classic
Santa doesn't even seem aware of what is going on. Seriously!
Bless Pratt's sweet heart. And yours. But I am laughing so hard. Out loud. That is seriously the best Santa picture ever.
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