Santa -- A Repeat Performance

Remember back to how well our visit with Santa went last year??

So, this year was pretty much a repeat performance. I took X to the Parents as Teachers holiday event again to see Santa and participate in some fun activities. He actually did pretty well with the activities, but HATED the Santa part. Walter was out of town for work so I was flyin solo for this one. It felt like there were a zillion people there so pardon some blurriness in a few of the pics. It's hard to be almost 37 weeks pregnant, keep up with a very busy toddler in a crowd full of little kids, AND get good pictures. Yes, I was there despite the fact that there are no pictures of me. I didn't think to ask someone to take a pic of me and X.

We started out in the pretend kitchen area where X made some cookies.






Our next stop was Santa. I thought that if we got this in right at the beginning maybe things would go well. Not so much. X stole some spatulas from the kitchen area and then proceeded to scream when I put him on Santa's lap. Santa even made the comment "oh, I see you let him bring a weapon." Oops!



The second he got off Santa's lap X was totally FINE. He even walked right over to this cute little chair and let me take a few pics (but wouldn't give up the spatulas!)



Then we went to shovel some snow. It was hard to pull him away from this.


And of course we hit up the stacking box station. They have this at almost every PAT event and it's always a hit.

Next stop was the obstacle course where you were given a gingerbread "cookie" (the piece of paper in his hand) and had to make it through all the stations to deliver the cookie to grandma's house. Very creative!

After the obstacle course we headed over to the craft stations. X made himself a Frosty the snowman face. He liked putting on the black stickers for the mouth (although he decided to create his own shape for the mouth) and LOVED playing with the glue stick. X didn't quite understand what it was, but he was very content to rub it all over the face...so I just let him!





Our final stop was the Gingerbread houses where you were supposed to decorate them with the Velcro candies. Instead X wanted to see if he could stand behind the houses and push them over.
But then he got the hang of it and did a little decorating.
And he even cleaned up the stray candies and put them back into the buckets.

We had fun. Well, except for the Santa part. But you can't have everything!