{"id":2025,"date":"2009-12-18T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T14:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2009-12-18T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T14:01:15","slug":"bravery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=2025","title":{"rendered":"Bravery…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Year one:<\/p>\n

Jaia was 11 months old and sat pleasantly on Santa’s knee for one great shot before she realized she’d been handed over to \u00a0scary stranger with a long shaggy beard, who was dressed in pajamas. \u00a0She was quickly in tears until she was safely back in Mama’s arms.<\/p>\n

Year two:<\/p>\n

Jaia wanted no part of a visit with Santa. \u00a0Dan and I sprung it on her and she was terrified and super apprehensive, despite all the other well-behaved girls and boys who sat on Santa’s lap and survived unscathed. \u00a0Even the promises on a candy and a scraggly Elmo doll being waved widly to distract her did nothing to calm her fears. \u00a0There was no way this was going to happen.<\/p>\n

As a final attempt, the camera guy suggested I sit next to Sant but slightly out of the shot so Jaia would feel more comfortable. It worked, but only to a point. \u00a0She leaned so far away from Santa and so much towards me that they are barely together in the shot at all. \u00a0And her face is hilarious. \u00a0Not a fan of Ol’ St. Nick at all. \u00a0Just doing ot for the candy at that point.<\/p>\n

Year three:<\/p>\n

After a bit of preparation of what she was going to ask Santa for, Jaia was a total pro. \u00a0She sat pleasantly on his lap. \u00a0Smiled for the camera and then proceeded to give Santa her looooong list, promising that she’d been a good girl all year long. \u00a0I stood there, proud as can be, and felt a little like a pageant mom as I smiled from the background like I was coaching her. \u00a0All that was missing was the tiara and the spray tan. (On her, not me). \u00a0It was awesome.<\/p>\n

\"Jaia<\/p>\n

To add to the excitement, Jaia met Santa AGAIN with Daddy when they went out a few days later. \u00a0And this time Mrs. Claus was there too. \u00a0She apparently sat right back down with him and gave him her list again, just to make sure he didn’t forget anything.<\/p>\n

\"Jaia<\/p>\n

I wonder if she noticed that he looked nothing like the Santa from the mall. \u00a0Or that Mrs. Claus looked a little like a man…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Year one: Jaia was 11 months old and sat pleasantly on Santa’s knee for one great shot before she realized she’d been handed over to \u00a0scary stranger with a long shaggy beard, who was dressed in pajamas. \u00a0She was quickly in tears until she was safely back in Mama’s arms. Year two: Jaia wanted no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}