Santa's Jingle Bells

So the idea was to go and mail Madison's letter to Santa today, but she got there at the mall and you know something?  Why not just hand it to him there?!?  You can see here above as Santa reads through the list of Brave items, one by one - he asked if she'd been good this year, and of course she said yes.  Mommy and Daddy did too.  Madison was pretty star-struck, or suddenly shy - but she really wanted to go and meet Santa today.  We posed for official pictures and there was nobody else around, so that meant more one-on-one time for Madison and Santa.  It was a perfect little outing.

Later, we went to the Disney Store to pick up a few items, and talk about favor:  Madison got a special little gift from one of the employees there, a wristband with bells on it.  Jingle-ling!  We had met this employee earlier last month when we were looking for Brave items, coincidentally the same ones that Madison was asking for in her letter!  She was very helpful back then, and we told her about our daughter from China.  Long story short, we brought her back to meet this employee, who was very nice of course.

For the rest of the night, we knew exactly where Madison was in the mall.  Jingle bells, jingle bells!  She was jingling wherever she went!  We shopped about at a few different stores, using gift cards and just looking at all the decorations.  After that, we had a small meal at PF Chang's.  Madison ate two egg rolls and a few bowls full of soup!  The food was good, but it was getting late - tomorrow's a school day.  So we got back into the car and listened to Christmas music on the way to the house.

When we got home later on, Madison's official Santa 2012 picture was put in a special Christmas frame we've had since last year.  Wouldn't you know it?  The entire frame is made up of jingle bells!