Santa Terror

So this year, we decided to attempt to take Alyse to see Santa. Last year she was fine, (although she was only 10 months old), so we thought she would be ok. Well, we were definitely wrong. She was TERRIFIED of Santa. So we went to the mall, got a ticket for a time to go see Santa, went back and waited in line, and were finally about to see Santa. 


Unfortunately, the child in front of us screamed bloody murder when he sat on Santa's lap. Nonna and Aunt Kathleen were with us, so we all tried to play it off by saying the child was laughing with Santa, but Alyse obviously didn't believe us. 


Once it was Alyse's turn to see Santa, everything seemed fine, until we tried to place Alyse on Santa's lap. She completely flipped out! She wanted NOTHING to do with him. She threw a tantrum and flung her body whenever we tried to put her next to him. Since apparently this happens a lot to Santa, the "elves" brought out a bench for us to sit on with Alyse in front of Santa. That didn't work either, because Alyse kept looking behind her to see if he was still there, and as soon as she saw him, she freaked out once more, crying and reaching for someone to take her away from how close she was to Santa. So we left Santa without even a picture. But before we got to Santa we got a few pictures of Alyse in a good mood, before the "incident."

Alyse and Nonna. She got the balloon from one of the elves who was making them free for the kids waiting in line. She loved her pink dog.

Alyse attempting to eat the balloon.  :)

Fixing Alyse's hair before the picture that never happened.