Who is taking pictures with Santa?

kelley72

Or have you already?  I cannot wait.. I am trying to convince my older boys to go too and all dress in same colored shirts.  This is a topic my dh and I discuss whenever holidays roll around and I bring out all the pictures of the boys when they were young.  He cannot get over them all having on the same shirt/outfit.  I love it!

fish8412

Already did it! We went last week to avoid the crowds.

tsmith312

Done !

Sanibel21

We are going to. I still need to figure out her Christmas wardrobe though, haha.

WisconsinCheese12

Haven't decided yet

myfriendscallmemeg

My H'a family has a Christmas party & Santa comes & reads them The Polar Express, gives them all a bell & then presents. So yes, she will be having her picture taken with him.

linzerd

We probably are, and I'm sure she'll freak out and cry

mfarmer0811

We are!! We are going to try and do it the first weekend in December!

jrw526

We are. We'll see how it goes. DS was 8 months for his first Christmas and freaked out with Santa. He refused to sit with him the past 2 years. Now at 3 he seems into, but I'm betting he'll chicken out once we are actually there. At least DD can't run away if she cries

babylimas

We will! I do it with my daughter every year and can't wait to get Will in on them. 

babylimas

Also, last year the newspaper chose my daughter picture as their front page. So I can't let her adoring fans down!

lazyreader

WE ARE!

My mom started the tradition with matching outfits. Every year since I've been born, I go and get a picture with santa (until I have a child - then I am not in the photo and the cycle starts again).

Over the years it starts with just me... Then me and my bro. then me, bro + sis. Then mom got married and there's two more siblings.... Time goes on. Divorce (siblings were still included for a couple years, but they stopped). When you are 18 you can take your own photo and start your own book. So mine starts with me and hubs... then us + the dogs. ones of me by myself because he was in Iraq. and one of me pregnant. Now that we have J, I'll no longer be in the photo and this will be the start of her growing up.

i'm stupid excited about it. already have her outfit picked out.

fish8412

younglove316 said:

I plan too! I am trying to convince my husband that we need to be in the picture too but we will see if that ends up happening.

My husband and I were in the picture. I held LO. She was a little scared of Santa and I don't blame her.

SurpriseAt39

Nope.
We did a photo of DS1 with a plate of 'half eaten' cookies for his first Christmas 2 years ago, and if we could find the damned plate we plan to do the same (different pose) with LO.
Thinking back to DD, she screamed every year with Santa. I was in every picture with her until at least age 5.

Really, who wants to sit on a creepy stranger's lap that has smelly breath??

(Santa only holds babies around here, any child over a year or two sits beside him. I've been to many malls and events that are the same way. It's kind of sad actually, but good at the same time. )

HKline922

We will! Trying to guess how Sage will handle Santa. She's pretty sociable and lets anyone hold her. However, Santa certainly doesn't look like anyone who's held her before lol

kaking78

We will be! There's a long tradition in my family of pictures of a child screaming bloody murder on Santa's lap. I'd hate to be the first to break it.

kelley72

kaking78 said:

We will be! There's a long tradition in my family of pictures of a child screaming bloody murder on Santa's lap. I'd hate to be the first to break it.

Yes, it is always a treasured photo to look back and see yourself, siblings, cousins crying/having a melt down.  The worst is typically ages 2-3.  It is a tradition that will not be broken by me!

kimberpoo

ooo I hadn't even thought about it! I'm sure the pics would be adorable. IDK if I will or not. I'm still in that 'omg don't touch my baby!!!!' mindset around strangers. it sure would be cute though.

laurenann89

Us! LO has a cousin that is 13 days older than him, so they'll be getting their pics with Santa together.

angelsnight

We'll be going one of these weekends with my best friend and her boys.  It will be just LO in the pic...unless she wants one of all of our kiddos together.  But we just did two sets of family pictures this fall (our family of three, and another with my side of the family) so there is no way I can convince MH to be in the pic with her.

amybug13

Sanibel21 said:

We are going to. I still need to figure out her Christmas wardrobe though, haha.

Haha, this.

laurstarx

We did the Santa at the church christmas bazaar and she just wanted to play with his beard

We are gonna do a good picture soon in a dressy outfit

laurenann89

It doesn't look like Santa was either @laura8838‌ lol adorable though!

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