In my ideal or imagined experience of Olivia's first Christmas we would take her to get her photo taken with Santa. Santa would be seated in a comfortable chair with a wonderful background. Olivia would have taken her nap earlier in the day. She wouldn't be cold or hungry. Her hair would be brushed and she would be wearing her red Christmas dress that I ordered in October.
She would smile at the camera and we could capture this grin and reprint it for all holiday photos.
Here is the reality:
I didn't plan a day and time to take her to meet Santa.
We went to Tinsel Town on the Air Force base the first weekend in December because I was feeling like the Grinch and needed a pinch of holiday spirit.
We listened to the Christmas music, watched the older children play and ate a funnel cake.
Santa was set up in a red shack and the line was 20 children long. But we had our camera with us, so we could stand in the line and do it. Olivia was wearing brown pants with purple and green hearts on them and pink shirt with brown hearts on it. I washed her face and we waited for our turn.
When it was our turn, we pulled off her hat. Benny placed her next to Santa and stepped to the side. At first she was fine. She was looking at Dad.
Then she thought if Dad was making funny faces in one corner and Mom had a camera directly in front of her, who was holding her?
Benny stepped into the picture to save a screaming Olivia (and Santa!) just as I was snapping the typical crying baby photo.
We thought that this would be a test run.
Christmas is a few days away.
So that's Olivia's picture of her first Christmas with Santa.
I'll print it and placed it in her baby book.
3 comments:
Awwww thats Awesome!
Since the picture doesn't have sound, it really doesn't seem like she is screaming in the picture...if that makes you feel any better. It almost looks like she is petting his beard, like she likes him. Cool story, either way :)
cute. at least she's not screaming - that will be next year's photo :)
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