Breakfast with Santa

We had breakfast with Alice’s family and Santa again this year.

The girls exchanged Christmas gifts  - they each gave a picture of the two of them. Ally peeled a hard boiled egg to eat. Tom commented that he had never seen her eat so much, an egg white, some fruit, a corn muffin, a glass of orange juice!

Santa was running late so I took the girls for a walk around the hotel. That is us up high in a balcony looking down to see if Santa had arrived. Then the girls sat in his chair for a photo op.

Finally he arrived! 

Santa came right over to our table. Alice fled to Ally and I for protection as Santa hugged her mom Cheryl. I thought Alice was going to crawl right up and over me! Ally loved it – she was enthralled, but her usual hesitant self.

Alice soon got over her fear and was filing Santa singing songs and then danced with him!

Ally was happy to wait for him to come back to the table. One of the funniest things was the hotel staff all had their camera phones out taking pictures of Santa’s show.

After his song and dance it was time to sit on his lap. Ally has said for a few weeks that she was not sure what to ask for. She told him that and he said ok. She has told us she just had her birthday and got what she asked for then, and all kinds of neat games that there is not anything in particular she needs or wants.

Gosh I love her.

After Ally’s visit with Santa we took family pictures.

It was a very busy day for us.

We left breakfast and went straight to church. After church it was Ally’s last swimming lesson for a while. Then home where we had family movie time. We watched Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone. Ally really enjoyed it. But half way thru the movie she said she was hot, and she was – with a fever. So she stayed home from school the next day.