Pictures with Santa

We took Sam to the local mall to get her picture taken with Santa. While we did get a nice picture out of it, what a cash cow! At least I would have felt better if they would have pretended that a portion of the $25 we paid for a CD with one picture on it was going to charity. Nope, our Santa was sponsored by Gymboree. Oh well, Merry Christmas right?

Here's us waiting in line:
Another pic while waiting:
And a close-up:

And, finally, with Santa:
It's tough to get a great picture when there's no real way to ensure that the baby will even look at the camera, much less smile! The teenage girl taking the picture kept calling her name over and over and over again - I told her that Samantha didn't respond to her name yet but that advice went ignored. We tried everything we could just to get her to look at the camera, we failed utterly at our attempts to get her to smile. She wasn't in a bad mood - she was just chilling with Santa. She liked his vibe...