Adventure with Santa

Today was our first lengthy trip out and about with Alex. We had to do some Christmas shopping and went to see Santa with his cousin, Drew. It is still amazing to me that we can be gone 7.5 hours and between all the Chicagoland traffic and holiday lines and feeding Alex every 2 hours, we were only able to go to Target, sit with Santa and go to dinner in that time...whew! A small price to pay for living in a city with so much to see and do.

The Santa visit really cracked me up. Drew is normally the happiest baby ever, but he wasn't so happy to meet Santa. He was all smiles for the entire hour we waited in line and as soon as he got on Santa's lap...meltdown! Alex was so squished in Santa's massive arm that I think he didn't have the opportunity to express any emotion. Here is the photo which commemorates Alex and Drew's first Santa visit which we will proudly display on the keychains we paid $30 bucks for...welcome to parenthood, not even Santa is free :)But it was worth the money and the wait for the laughs I got out of it!