Santa!

Baby got her first Santa photo today!

We arranged with a friend from mothers group (whose daughter is actually related to the baby through both of their fathers being related) to head down to a local shopping Santa for a photo that we could take ourselves (so we didn't have to pay the crazy amount that some of the places were charging).

45 minutes later, and Santa still hadn't arrived.

Mrs Claus was there, and she was doing a fantastic job of trying to abate all of the other families, milling around the centre and looking for Santa. Whilst she explained that Santa wasn't there yet as he had been working late making all the toys for the girls and boys, she also confided that she believed he might have been up partying a bit late the night before.

So we headed off to another shopping centre to get proper photos done.

Of course, both babies were now tired and getting hungry.

And while the baby's friend was very well behaved and napped in the car and in the line, baby just wanted to check it all out. Until we were almost at the front of the line and she gave in to sleep.

So considering she was woken up, overtired, had her dummy taken off her and was dumped on to a crazy strangers lap, we managed to get an adorable photo of her, and a few copies of the adorable photo of her and her friend.

And you'd never know that it took almost 30 shots to get those pictures, and that she was sucking on Santa's coat and kept sitting with her legs sticking up so that her nappy was showing, and that the velcro on her harness pulled his beard half off as she left.