HO HO......I Don't Think SO!!!!

I know you always hear that there is an age that most children hate sitting on Santa's lap at Christmas! The hilarious stories of children crying, screaming and running away from Santa because they are scared to death of this big huge man with lots of facial hair! Well, I found this to be true with Christian last weekend. My church was having a breakfast with Santa last Saturday and I thought this would be fun to do with Christian. Brian was off on a skiing adventure with friends, so my mother and sister went with us! It started off great because they had balloons, which are Christian's absolute favorite! There was music, kids dressed as elves and donuts and juice for them to eat and drink! All the children running around and the hustle and bustle of music and people was very entertaining for Christian. He was mesmerized by everything and was having a blast until.......the arrival of Santa! I have never laughed so hard in my life, I am lucky I did not have to go to the bathroom because I would of wet my pants! Santa comes walking in the door and Christian is looking and watching him very closely! As Santa approaches us, we were standing in the aisle, Christian went crazy. Crazy in a funny way! He is truly a monkey because he climbed up my leg so fast I almost fell over! He freaked out! He was crying and screaming and holding on to me for dear life! I just laughed and apologized to Santa! I was not expecting him to react this way. If anyone knows our child then they know that he is not that scared of anything. Well, Santa made his way down the aisle and Christian calmed down and ate his donut and played. He did not know that he would have to sit on that scary man's lap in about thirty minutes. I thought to myself....this is going to be interesting and mommy might be sitting on Santa's lap too! When are number was called we made our way up to Santa. My mother had taken Christian up to watch other children sit on Santa's lap. She thought maybe this would lessen the anxiety of what was about to happen. Christian was all smiles until we stepped up to Santa! He literally tried to climb over my shoulder and run as far away as possible! Who was this crazy man with the white beard my mother is trying to give me too??? He again freaked out crying and screaming! Santa with his quick thinking pulled me on his lap and let the guy take our picture! Christian would not stop screaming and every time he looked at Santa the screaming just got louder! They tried bribery with a candy cane, but that lasted maybe a second. Every time he looked back and saw Santa he would loose it! After much laughter from me and crying from him I told them to just take the damn picture! It would be a great momento for his second Christmas and his frightening experience with Santa! It took him awhile to calm down after that, but he eventually was back to normal and had forgotten about the big man with lots of facial hair! We stayed and played a little longer and he ran around happy as could be....unless he ran into Santa!!! He ran into Santa a few more times and screamed and ran to me, but all and all we had a fun time! Hopefully, next year he will feel a little different about Santa! I have some great photos, so I will never forget and I will never let him forget about his experience with Santa!