Lilly had her first visit with Santa Claus today.  She loves saying “Hi, Santa!” to the decorative ones we have around the house and was very excited about the visit…until she saw her friend Amelia placed on his lap, at which point she clung to me for dear life.  I have claw marks to prove it.  I was leaning towards exiting the whole Santa spectacle but Mr. Claus himself urged me to put Lilly on his lap, so I did for long enough to get this photo.  I can honestly say that I have NEVER seen Lilly so upset in my entire life.  She was screaming ‘ALL DONE!  ALL DONE!  ALL DONE!  ALL DONE!’  from the moment she was out of my arms.  It took several minutes to calm her down afterwards, during which she was having an entire conversation with me about how upsetting the entire event was.  We had other Santa events in store for her this year but I guess they’ll have to wait until 2011!