Steven and Chrystal Tandberg Family: Visiting Santa

January 15, 2009

Visiting Santa

We went to see Santa Claus in Colorado. Mariah was super excited to see him. We waited in a long line and she was super happy the whole time...

She pet the deer and she was still happy...

She got to the front of the line and started screaming!! She didn't want to go near Santa. Somehow Steven got her calmed down and sat her down by Santa. Lylah loved Santa She just sat there and gooed. Then the funny part is, on Christmas morning Mariah's cousins were anxious to open their presents so they wanted us to wake Mariah up. We woke her up and told that Santa had come and brought her presents - thinking she'd be excited and run downstairs because she had been so excited about Santa and Christmas. She started crying and wouldn't go downstairs. We couldn't figure out what was wrong. Finally after we told her that Santa wasn't there anymore, she was happy and went downstairs.

6 comments:

Aly said...: That is too funny! Jayci Freaked out about Santa too. She was shaking so hard for the rest of the night at our ward party and kept saying "bye, santa" like she liked him, but was scared to death. Little girls are so funny! Next year it will be Lylah's turn to freak out. We need to get together soon.; January 16, 2009 at 7:17 AM
Charise said...: That is such a funny story! And you tell it so well, with suspense, waiting and questioning, and then. . . . bam! The hilarious punchline!! You have the most gorgeous family in the world. Don't tell anyone I said that, it's just not fair to everyone else. :); January 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Randrea said...: Fun memories! Where did you guys go to do your santa pictures?; January 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Chelsey said...: too funny. at least you got a really cute picture of them with santa!; January 17, 2009 at 2:29 PM
julie Tandberg said...: This was so much fun. A nice memory. What sweet grandchildren!; January 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Jamie & Ryan said...: Ha ha! Poor girl... Why is it that little kids are always so afraid of Santa?; January 21, 2009 at 4:34 PM

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Mariah says the darndest things...

Mariah certainly has interesting designations for things. Today she asked me for clean milk. I was getting Lylah some of her rice milk and evidently Maraih didn't want it. She pointed to the regular 1% milk and said that was clean milk. I asked her why it was clean, she told me, "because I said it was!" I really don't know where she got that!

At dinner Mariah told me she wanted dry water. I asked her what dry water was (after I could stop chuckling behind my hands) and she said water that came from our glass pitcher was dry water. I never quite figured out why that was dry water, although we do usually put ice cubes in it when we use the pitcher. hmmm... dry water...

The other day Mariah asked me for kid beans. At first I thought she wanted green beans because she loves them and could eat a whole can by herself. But she didn't want those. I eventually found out that she wanted kidney beans. Lylah likes to eat kidney beans, straight from the can and Mariah was jealous and wanted some.

We use sliced cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches, now Mariah calls that cheese "girl cheese."

One of my favorite things Mariah said was about a year ago. She came to me with a very concerned look on her face, "Mommy why doesn't the table have clothes on?" I had taken the tablecloth off and hadn't put another one on yet and she was worried about it.

When Lylah was a couple months old she got a hold of Mariah's hand and tried to put it in her mouth. Mariah laughed and said, "Mommy, Lylah is trying to eat the elbows on my hand!" Now if that is not a good way to descibe knuckles, I don't know what is!

Steven was trying to help Mariah learn how to catch the ball. He would throw the ball and she would look at him and miss it. He told her to keep her eye on the ball. She gave Steven a funny look and literally put her eye on the ball. Needless to say, we both started laughing.

We went hiking last week on Steven's day off. We were just getting going up a hill into the trees when Mariah turned to Steven and said, "Daddy I want the car." I didn't realize we were raising such a city girl. Looks like we need to get back out west soon!