A visit from santa

My mom dug through her storage boxes in the basement a couple days before Christmas and found the old santa costume her grandparents used with her when she was a little kid. My grandparents used it with me and my brothers and now it was my mom and dad's turn to use it on our kids. After eating our Christmas morning breakfast my dad slipped outside and put on the santa costume. He rang the front doorbell and Allyson rushed to the door to answer it. Of course, like most toddlers she whined and ran to her daddy. We pulled down santas beard and told Ally that it was her Poppy under the clothes, but she still wouldn't sit on his lap. I sat on his lap to see if that would help her, but it didn't. We put Blake and Tyson on his lap to see if Allyson would follow in their bravery, but she still chickened out. We would have loved to of had Sydnie there with us also, but unfortunately she came down with an illness and was not able to join all of us for our family Christmas celebration this year. We missed her and her mom alot. It wasn't the same without both of them there. Maybe santas visit next year will be more eventful.