Best Santa picture EVER!

I know Christmas is long gone by now, but I finally got around to scanning Riley's picture from her visit with Santa. I was hoping she would do ok this past Christmas. You always see young kids screaming & probably thinking "Who is this strange hairy man and why does his breath smell like whisky & tuna?" I know you are probably thinking to yourself "Why does a 2 year old know what whisky smells like?" Whatever. Just stay with me on this one. After the kid starts screaming you always see the parents dancing around like idiots trying to get the poor kid to smile. All that really ends up happening is the parents end up giving eachother the silent treatment the rest of the day because neither did a good job at properly entertaining the crying child. Happy Holidays right? So I went to the santa picture booth with an open mind & had very low expectations of Riley. She seemed great before we got up there, saying "HO HO HO!" while waiting for her turn. As soon as I placed her on Santa's lap, she freaked. Instead of the usual crazy parent dance I decided to sit with her. They snapped 3 pics of her crying & that was that. 

We waited for the prints to come up & got to choose between 3 poses. The last one was actually not that bad. She wasn't smiling like she just saw a chocolate bar in her hands, but she didn't look all that upset. Then I saw it. The PERFECT picture. No, it wasn't a beautiful, angelic portrait with Jolly Ol' Saint Nick, but it was perfect to me. She had the most god-awful scowl on her face....like someone had pooped in her cheerios that morning. I loved it. It was my punkin! So enjoy this late holiday picture.....Merry Belated Christmas :)