Santa Visit

Tonight, December 10th, we went to see Santa at the mall. Hudson was so excited about it! While we waited in line, he ran around, watched the water jumping (the fountain) and threw coins in. We bought a fast pass, but still had to wait for quite a while; I honestly don't think it was much faster than the regular line (faster for them because they didn't have to process our payment or wait for us to decide on a package, but they took more people from the regular line than ours so our wait was about the same. Anyways, my point is, that since we had to wait my timing with Luc wasn't as perfect as I wanted. He was fed, happy and content when we arrived. Then he started his crazy drooling so I had to attempt to save his outfit while standing outside in the cold and just before it was our turn, he pooped! Thankfully it didn't leak, that would have been a nightmare, but we didn't have time to change it so Santa got to hold a stinky little boy on his lap. Luc was pretty calm about the whole thing and just stared off at the lights. We squeeked toys at him and called his name, but we couldn't get him to look at the camera. Oh well. Then we added Hudson into the mix. Hudson did his usual stare face, but after we asked him to smile, he at least gave us a half smile. (We are making progress!). I wish we could have taken video of Hud and Santa our at least a few of our own photos. (When you have purchased the package already, what is the fear in us taking our own pics?) Hud was so cute. He told Santa he wanted toys for Christmas. I have asked him a few times previously what he will ask Santa for. One time he answered Buzz and Woody and another time he said a skateboard? Today he has been saying toys pretty consistently, but who knows what he will want tomorrow. Lastly, Santa gave each of the boys a candy cane and sent us on our way. Hudson loved the candy cane! He was so excited about the whole 5 second encounter, haha. 

On our way home, we stopped at the very impressive street in our neighborhood to look at the lights. Hudson is obsessed with Christmas lights so he of course loved it! In fact, he is obsessed with all things Christmas (he really is my child!). He loves our tree, the lights, the ornaments, jingle bell, our elf, the fireplace, the lights on the houses, everything! I didn't know it was possible to love Christmas more, but every day enjoying it with him, even little things like changing the number on our countdown to Christmas calendar, has been so special!