Taylor Family Values: Sittin' on Santa's Lap!

So this year, we decided to start preparing Colton for Santa nice and early, in hopes that he wouldn't get scared like he did last year. We talked about Santa endlessly and read lots and lots of Christmas books. After saturating Colton with Santa this and Santa that, he began to say that he would sit on Santa's lap! However, at Sienna's ballet performance, he ended up clinging to Daddy and eventually could only be coaxed into giving Santa a high five. So, for our official visit with Santa, I finally settled on good old-fashioned bribery. If Colton would sit on Santa's lap, then we would give him a candy cane. I'm sure in his mind he was thinking, "A candy cane you say....well in that case, I suppose I can sit on his lap for a short while." So, when our turn came up, he hunkered down and allowed us to sit him on Santa's lap. I'm not going to say he was happy about it, but he did it without crying or reaching out for us. He didn't exactly smile, but when Santa asked him if he wanted a choo choo train for Christmas, he said, "yes!" Of course, our big girl Sienna was an old pro at sitting on Santa's lap and she sweetly recited her Christmas wish list to him. This went on for about 10 minutes and Santa listened very intently to every word. I'm going to say both of these kiddos made the nice list this year!