Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Santa Baby

All I Want For Christmas is... a Dry Diaper!

Rather than wait in lengthy lines filled with screaming kids in an overcrowded mall courtyard, we had Benjamin pay his first visit to Santa while we were at our annual ward Christmas party.

Luckily, we were one of the first families in line, which gave Benjamin little to no time to get fussy before the big visit. We sat him on Santa's lap and I guess he was a little tired, because he didn't even notice the guy in the big red suit.

After babbling and gazing around a bit, he caught sight of the red-suited elf. As quickly as Ralphy from The Christmas Story, he told Santa that he wanted a real crib (because he was rapidly outgrowing his little bassinet), more reliable diapers (because, dude, the ones mom & dad have been using are not keeping up with one healthy appetite), another cool hat (because we have one stylish little guy) and a soft toy (because The Boy needs something to suck away the pain of teeth that are trying to emerge).

Fortunately, Santa granted all of his wishes and it was truly a very Merry First Christmas for one happy baby!