Christmas - Hailey is getting it...

With Christmas just around the corner, obviously Santa Claus (Ho Ho) is being mentioned often. And it amazes me how much in a year things change for a child. Hailey actually gets Christmas this year, well kind of. She knows she needs to be a good girl or Santa Claus will not bring her any toys...and this one is SO nice to be able to use to get her to be a good girl.

All she ever wants to do is go sit on Santa's lap and tell him what she wants for Christmas. She is amazed by all the christmas lights and decorations. I'm not sure if it was a good thing but I pointed out to her all the ornaments on the tree that were her's. Kind of special seeing that this is now our 3rd Christmas together. However, when I was trying to get some work done, she later brought a chair up to the tree to try and see her ornaments up closer I'm guessing and yeah....she fell into the tree. Not a lot of damage done but boy was she scared! ha! Ahh the curiousity of it all...

I'm excited to start our traditions we will do as a family. I'm so excited to have so much time off around the holidays this year that I hope to get to spend a lot of time with her. I can't wait to see her reaction of when she sees all her presents under the christmas tree from Santa...that will probably be...no...most definitely it will be the best thing ever!

Last year she woke up at 5am with a fever and ended up doing Christmas right then but of course she didn't get it and didn't feel good so it wasn't exactly what I hoped for.

But this year...I know it is going to be great.

This past Friday (day after thanksgiving as though I wasn't already tired enough - up at 3:30am)....Hailey remembered that I said we might go see Santa and sit on this lap this weekend. Well not a minute passed after I got home from shopping did she want to go see Santa. Well...what was I supposed to do...so we got her all dressed up in her Christmas dress and her hair all pretty and we went off to find Santa. Meanwhile I'm praying that he is actually there...my luck would be that he isn't at the malls yet.

So we get there, obviously its insane with being the day after Thanksgiving and we get to the middle of the mall and through the crowd I see him...and guess what...there is NO LINE!!!!! We walked right up there...Hailey kind of freaked out at first but I went up to Santa with her. She gave him a five and told him right away...I want a baby Santa! haha this girl was on a mission and she knew what she needed to do! She sat on his lap after a while and we got a great picture! However, she would not give him a hug...no way no how! She sat on his lap, told him what she wanted and now she wanted the man to deliver! ha! She didnt' quite get that she had to wait until Christmas to get the baby she asked for. Hopefully she'll get it on Christmas Eve!