Well, our first visit to see Santa went as expected - a child scared of Santa and thus screaming in the picture! :)
The photographer doing Makenna's "watch me grow" pictures here in town had a free Christmas session and I chose to do the one with Santa. It was kind of nice because you had an extra few minutes trying to get a good picture with the man in the red suit, but Makenna wouldn't have it - at least not with her usual smile!
He did get out of the chair and went to the dark part of the room. We then had Makenna stand (because she wouldn't sit) in the chair and he went up behind her and almost had his face up against her's (she had no idea) - I hope there are some good ones of this. We tried in the lap again and it didn't work. She got a little close to him when he offered his candy pail, but the tears came again! We tried playing peek-a-boo and in the lap and the crying again. Hopefully she got a couple of good ones and of course we'll have to put a screaming one in her book. I would say the outing was a success - even though she is scared of Santa!
As a side note - we had gone to Chick.fil.A for dinner before. They had a cow as Santa tonight. She wouldn't have much to do with him either! And, she poked a hole in her cup and dumped water all over her dress just before picture time.
Maybe we'll have a happy Santa picture next year!
