Today we stopped by The Country Place, a small gift shop in Howell, and Santa was there! We took Emma into the store where he was, and she immediately climbed onto his lap, asked him for a hug (or more accurately, just said "Hug" and put her arms around him), and then sat perfectly still for photos and carried on a 10-minute conversation with him about presents, Rudolph, the snowmen on the wall of the store, and the candy cane ("it has stripes on it!") that he gave to her.
The girls who were in charge of taking photos said they hadn't seen a child do what Emma had done... most of them were either shy or scared, and definitely didn't ask Santa for a hug or carry on a long conversation with him. Emma just took it all in stride, as if she had known Santa for years.
Then, we left and she opened her candy cane. She ate a little bit of it in the car as we were leaving... but then she fell asleep with it still gripped in her hand, and slept all the way home. I bet she had dreams about Santa and snowmen and Rudolph.
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