Blink
December 04, 2006
Last year, we spent about 40 minutes in line trying to keep a small bald turtle child awake just long enough to see Santa, and arguing over why BLUE SHOES ARE NEITHER CHRISTMASY NOR MATCHY, JASON STORCH:
This year, we spent 15 minutes in line (the 15 longest damn minutes of my entire life, and that's about how long my c-section took) trying to keep Noah from throwing yet another temper tantrum over GOD KNOWS WHAT (seriously, what? what do you want? what are you pointing at? why are you flailing? how do you DO that, when your whole body turns to ungrippable goo?) and jumping out of line to get a stupid balloon from the mall concierge because Trader Joe's has created a Balloon-Loving Monster, but hey! At least Santa looked slightly less lit this year:
Plus, I picked out his outfit. Although yes, it's totally bugging me that you can see his diaper even after I straightened his clothes out a dozen times, but he's about .2475 seconds away from throwing his arms up and body-gooifying his way off of Santa's lap here, so whatever.
Another magical childhood moment, all for only $17.99 plus tax.
I still cannot believe that hair. It's sprouting overnight, I swear.
The boy looks a-friggin-dorable even with his diaper showing (I wouldn't have noticed)!
Gosh Amy...he's so darn cute!!!!
Look how much he's grown!
but he's not only not crying but has a big smile - which is more than half the battle right there from what I hear.
Great picture.
That Santa is cross-eyed. And OMG it's the same one from last year! How cool!
my 3 year old flatly refuses any idea of Santa but I have a magical picture of her and an Abraham Lincoln reinactor that she ADORED because Lincoln, for some reason, she LOVES.
Noah=totally cutieliciousness!!
Noah has gotten so big!! Time really does fly, doesn't it?
I love that it is the same Santa... makes it even easier to see what a huge difference a year makes!
Aren't you just awestruck by how much they change in just one year!? It never ceases to amaze me. This one is just precious because its the same santa, same chair, same xmas cheeze, but instead of an indifferent sackobaby, there's a crazy energized KID! mon dieu...
Oh my god, where did your baby go? There's a little BOY there now. (Which I'm sure you've noticed, but, damn, they sure do grow a lot in a year.)
Yes, this must have been Santa: Pre-mid-afternoon booze break.
He is adorable. And not! crying. My favorite picture of all-time is one of my sister and I on Santa's lap. I'm grinning like the big guy just promised me Barbie's Dreamhouse, and! the van, and skipper's little dog, too, and my sister is right next to me, screaming and crying. Awesome.
yeah you can't be too upset about the little diaper peeking out when he's laughing and not crying.
That is great. I can't believe you got the same Santa 2 years in a row. They change constantly here.
Noah looks ecstatic- like he's seeing reindeer Right. Over. There! Hoorah.
Did you know Ben & Jerry's is having free Santa pictures on the weekends with the purchase of anything? At least ours is!
You absolutely cannot look at that new picture of Noah with Santa, and not grin like a fool. Unless, of course, your heart is full of unwashed socks.
Do I spy dimples on those adorable, edible little cheeks? The cuteness is killing me, just like everyone else.
So sweet. And OMG, Jason, the blue shoes DO NOT GO with the rest of it. But he is still cute none-the-less. The cuteness outweights the mismatchedness.
What? I'm just sayin'.
Awwww. Too cute. Definately a Monday-funk breaker picture.
Thank God my kid isn't the only freak who throws his arms up in the air and suddenly becomes uncontrollable by any human being.
Cute pic, though.
That Santa appears to, if I am not mistaken, have a REAL beard, which makes all the difference, as far as Santa-realness factors go. As did the one at the mall where I took my boys to when they were that age. I loved that Santa.
My second son was a Thanksgiving baby, and that Christmas when he was 1-year old was lots more more fun than the first, as yours will be. (That kid just turned 15 last week, and is now 4" taller than me. Oy.)
Ohhhhhh, look at the wee-tiny bald Noah! What in the hell happened? He is a giant, upright human-person now. (Still adorable, of course! I'm just saying. HUGE.) Where did that little smoooshy bebe go? Wah.
That is an excellent Santa. I am very picky about Santas, and this one has the real beard and the nice glimmer in his eye (lit or not, still a Santa-like glimmer). I hate those young Santas with long, stringy fake beards. It just ain't right.
Kudos on the sneaks this year!
oh my goodness the cuteness makes my ovaries hurt! Look at his smile! Totally worth the 15 minutes and $17.99!
With a smile like that all is forgiven, no?
I have to endure the 15 minutes of kicking and fitting so i can get a damned picture. I have to have something to show his therapist in 20 years when he's whinin' about how he had an unhappy childhood and thats why he drinks.
Because, uh, you know, it wouldnt be genes or anything that made him like, uh, that........
B*E*A*utiful!!!! He is so damn cute! At least your Santa had teeth!! Mine had one....
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Love ya'll as always!!!
How awesome. My guy went for the first time, but he's three. Got an awesome shot, too.
Very cute.
Oh my LORD does he look like you in the 2nd one! Too cute!
As someone who had santa photos taken till she turned 21 (kicking and screaming but it made my mother happy) . . .Noah looks so adorable.
And your santa looks non-pervy! Also a plus.
When I was 12 a mall Santa asked if I was 18. . .umm skeevy!
Body-Gooifying is a special trick that I am convinced they teach other secretly, either through coded messages in their high-pitched dolphin hoots, or by surreptitious demonstration in public spaces ("Dude! The moms aren't looking! Watch this - go limp, drop your head and flail backwards. STAY LIMP. Hold position. They can't grip this jelly!") WonderBaby rocks the Goo move with a patented leg bend that sees her end up on the floor in a bizarre baby limbo pose.
And, hey! Are those red baby Chucks? NICE.
Just be glad you're not sitting in Santa's lap, too. Can't tell you how long I had to do that with girl1 and girl2.
Has Santa been sitting there since last year? He looks EXACTLY the same.
Noah's a cutie - that child doesn't have tantrums, surely?!
OMG, I miss the turtle/squirrel faces. So big! So damn cute!!!!
Awww!! He's just so friggin CUTE! And the shoes? Definitely go for the matchy-matchy :) Good call.
I think your son is the first child in the history of the WORLD that appears to enjoy sitting on Santa's lap! Most kids are crying like crazy, all snotty-nosed and puffy-eyed in their pictures with Santa.
He's just damn adorable!
Noah, that is. Not Santa. Because really, Santa is kinda creepy if you think about it.
oh Amy, that is just too cute.
My 21 month old threw a temper tantrum over a hat today, that was not even on his head. He already took it off, and was still complaining about it. Where do these kids come from.
Dude, I just looked at those pictures again, and are you sure tiny little baldy there was just taken last year?
Noah looks so big this year! So big and boyish and ... Big Boyish.
Oh, Amy. Don't cry.
gorgeous.
What I wanna is how the HELL did you get those Chuck Taylors on his feet? I gave up at the freakin' SHOE STORE and bought Ked's instead. Lazy me.
I had no idea Santa had a lazy eye... Perhaps he could get one of his elves to make a wooden one!
Adorable! And Noah looks delightfully happy this year (even if it's joy over the prison break he's about to make), as opposed to last year's, "Dude, I am way too cool for Santa" expression.
You're a braver woman than I.
I'm taking a picture of Hailey and super-imposing it over Santa's Lap.
Billy Bob Thorton's Bad Santa in fact. I mean if I'm going to go to all that trouble I might as well get someone famous in the picture, right?
$17.99? Damn! That's cheap! It's friggin THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS here...here...where houses cost less than that damned Santa picture!
(Please note that my son's grandpa volunteers as Santa at libraries where I grew up so the costume came at Thanksgiving...our tree went up...boy on Grandpa's lap -- FREE PICTURE! Take that you soulless mall Santa charging 35 damn dollars! *ahem*)
*ovaries burst*
just be thankful it's a diaper and not a c-section scar like a certain ms. spears...
Well, Jes, it's like when you graduate and put the tassle from one side to the other during the ceremony? This time, he's showing how he successfully graduated from being lit to non-lit.
Does it bother anyone else that this year his holly or poinsettia or bell (or whatever that is on his hat) is on the opposite side of his head from last year?
No? Just me?
That figures.
Heh - I looked at the first photo without realising it was last year, and I was like "Boy, he looks so tiny!" Then I saw the second one. Duh me.
Santa looks the same! Your boy is ADORABLE!
You are so much braver than I. I refuse to even take my boy to the mall, let alone test the wrath of a 3 year old by putting him on Santa's lap.