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It is our family tradition to take the kids to pick out toys for Toys for Tots and then eat dinner at the mall and visit Santa.  This year, when we got to the mall, Santa was out feeding his reindeer.    We opted to eat dinner first instead of be the first in line… we may have opted wrong.  When we returned to the Santa line, it was huge… and at the end of the line was a lady with two dogs.  (Emma is terrified of dogs.)  One of the dogs was a lab, and I think to myself that maybe she is training them to be service dogs and she is getting them used to lots of children.  Then I look up and realize there are as many dogs in line to see Santa as kids.  (Did I mention Emma is TERRIFIED of dogs?)  I guess it was beneficial in that Emma was much more scared of the dogs than she was of Santa.  We actually even got everyone to sit on his lap… although my picture isn't very good because they had a big sign that said if you weren't buying the ridiculously expensive Santa photos from them you could only take 2 pictures with your own camera and I had taken 3.  Sometimes I hate being such a rule-abider by nature and wish I would have just leisurely taken 8 pictures – really, would they have asked me to stop?  Maybe I'll get brave enough to find out next year, when Carter has gotten smarter and is screaming his head off.  Merry Christmas and happy pet night!