Cookies with Santa

I have been trying (unsuccessfully) for four years to get a smiling picture of Loralie on Santa's lap. I will be trying again next year! We went to "Cookies with Santa" sponsored by my MOPs group tonight. It was a great event! You signed up for a time and then when you got there there were activities for the kids to keep them occupied until your name was called. Loralie ate a cookie, made "reindeer food" (which she keeps calling "donkey food") and colored a picture while we waited. Then when it was time to meet the big guy she played it shy. She wouldn't sit in his lap, and answered all his questions in mostly baby talk. When he asked her what she wanted for Christmas she looked at an ornament in the tree next to him and said "a butterfly decoration". Really??? When we practiced in the car earlier she said she wanted a doll house and a baby doll that could eat real food and bottles. Ah well. Santa just does stockings at our house anyways so she might just get a butterfly ornament in hers. Hey, you get what you ask for! Maybe that will teach her to aim higher next year!
As for Roman, he sat on Santa's lap and did what any young boy does- pulled his whiskers. These, as it turned out, were legit.