seeing santa!!

ok so this year i've been trying to teach lex about santa. the more movies he saw and the more books he read he finally figured out that santa is a good guy. still wasn't sure what he did though. but our ward had it's christmas party like they do every year and i was hoping that last year's santa ordeal wasn't even in lex's memory (he screamed and cried when he saw santa). so this year all morning i told lex santa was coming and he needed to sit on his lap and tell him what he wanted for christmas. we went over and over what he was going to ask santa for. lex decided all he wanted for christmas was "num nums". which is candy. so when breakfast was over and santa came lex was very excited!!! elaina wasnt so sure... she was happy to see him but didn't want to get close to him. so we waited in line. and waited...and waited... til finally we were at the front of the line. so we went over again what he was going to ask santa for. "num nums". he's gotten it down this time. so we got up there.. elaina didn't want anything to do with santa. thank goodness she didn't scream and cry. :) now lex didn't want to sit on santa's lap. but finally gave in once he saw the candy cane he had for him. so santa asked the golden question..."what do you want for christmas?" and i waited for lex... finally....very softly and mumbling he said "num nums". Hurray!!!! he did it!! i was so excited he did it!! so we took a picture with elaina not wanting to have anything to do with him still and then santa gave out the num nums. well lex was excited because he got what he wanted and elaina warmed up to him right away and smiled at hima nd said goodbye as we left. it was a good first encounter with santa. they saw santa 2 more times after that. and of course i didn't have a camera. but it pretty much went the same way the 2nd time we saw him at holiday lights. i took the kids and my parents and went to willard to drive through to see some lights. the kids and i saw santa and santa's reindeer were there too. by that time lex really got the idea of santa and he loved seeing the reindeer. we also got to take a wagon ride pulled by horses. the kids LOVED that. it was a good night. the 3rd time we saw santa lex was sick of seeing him. he wasn't interested anymore. but he still got some num nums. it was more like..sit..."num nums"...walk away. didn't even wait for santa to say anything. lol so anyways here's the picture we took at the breakfast.