Visit With Santa

Tonight was Daddy's company Christmas party with OG&E. It was held at the Civic Center in Muskogee. It was a really nice party. They catered a meal from Jasper's, which was really good. Then after the meal Santa showed up. This is what we had been waiting for for a couple weeks. We had been telling Kade that he would get to see Santa tonight, and he was all excited. I wasn't so sure though. As soon as Santa walked in the room, Kade started whining "Mommy, Mommy." Then he crawled up in my lap and started crying. Santa walked to the other side of the room, and then Kade got happy real quick. He started saying "Bye Santa." Then when Santa came back he got scared again. Santa went up and sat in his sleigh to hand out gifts to the kids. So each kid was supposed to come up, get their gift, and get their picture taken on Santa's lap. Kade was deathly afraid of sitting on his lap. I asked him if Mommy could sit on Santa's lap, and Kade could sit on Mommy's lap. He gave a definite no! So when they called his name, I took him up to get his gift while he screamed the whole time and was covering his ears, something he does when he's scared. The photographer offered to just take a picture of Kade and me together, but I couldn't even get him calmed down enough for that. Oh well, there's always next year!

Kade opening his first present of the season from Santa at Jake's company party.

He worked real hard on opening that gift.

Here was Kade playing with his new toy, a Batman car that you shake to make it go. We couldn't ever get Kade to cooperate so we could get a picture of the car. It was even lucky we got these few pictures, with the whole Santa incident!

Mommy & Kade at Daddy's company Christmas party. I couldn't get Kade to sit on Daddy's lap for a picture. After Santa made his appearance, Kade wouldn't leave my side.