Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Santa Visit Take One

We head down to Phipps Plaza each year for our visit with Santa. We started this tradition when Grayson was a baby and love making the trip. I check Grayson out of school to head downtown, and he tells me that his belly is hurting. I went through the normal mommy questions . . . are you hungry? Do you need to go to the bathroom? etc. Well I should've know something wasn't right when I look back in the truck and see this . . .
Poor guy! I then just think maybe his belly was hurting because he was tired and needed to catch up on some sleep. Well he wakes up right as we are at the mall and gets sick in the truck. Poor thing. I was ready to come home but he tells us that he feels fine and wants to see Santa. Then I'm thinking maybe it was something he ate that didn't sit well. We continued on and he seemed totally fine . . . UNTIL, he gets up on the big mans lap . . . he starts to take deep breaths and then begins gagging. I immediately ran to where he could see me and waved him off of Santa's lap. Grayson gets to Tieg who has a bag and he gets sick again. Oh, it was awful!! I felt HORRIBLE. I went to check on Grayson after Kinsley got off of Santa's lap and the first thing he said was, "Did you give him my list?" Poor baby. We left and when we got home, I made a phone call and apologized and the staff was so sweet to allow us to come again to visit Santa when everyone was better. After all, we had made the appointment back in October, so I was so afraid that there wasn't going to be an appointment available, but they were so nice to work with us. Just another reason I LOVE the BIGSHOT Santa at Phipps!! The staff is so nice, Santa is Beautiful and he always shares about Jesus with the kids!
Grayson writing out his wishlist. Time for a picture.

Then he began to look a little green. . . Sweet time with Santa for Sissy. So I have the whole thing on video. We made our second trip yesterday and they added that visit onto the same video as our first visit. It will definitely be a trip to Santa that we will always remember.

1 comment:

Everything Beautiful Shay said...

A beautiful couple of kids with a beautiful Santa! So sorry Grayson got sick but glad you were able to get those photos!!! So sweet!!!
Blessings and merry Christmas to you all. Oh and we got your card yesterday... know what the big girls said??? That is the most beautiful family card we have gotten!!! It was SO lovely!!! You paid me too much! Love to you all!