Visiting Santa and Fun on the Boardwalk

Since today was Dave's day off work, we decided to take Brody to see Santa for the first time this year. Bass Pro has a FANTASTIC Santa and set-up as we found out last year.

Brody before we left to see Santa...

At Santa's Wonderland!

Pretty content at first....he ALMOST even had a smile!

Then he's getting a little confused as to why Daddy was letting go of him.

Then he got pretty unsure of the whole thing.

Uh, MOM....why are you just standing there with a camera in your hand when this funny looking man is holding me???

And, he lost it!!!

Get me OUTTA HERE!!!

(Secretly, I think these kind of pictures are not only priceless, but hilarious!  While I wish he was happy as a lark, these are great for the memory books!)

Santa even felt uncomfortable holding him at this point, so he gave him back to Dave where Brody could be safe in his Daddy's arms! =)

Watching some kids play with the mega-racetrack.

Then, we headed to the large fish tank so Brody could see the big fish...he loved it!

 

After a little more time in Bass Pro, we walked around the rest of the Boardwalk since we had a little time before Brody's bedtime.  This is the Christmas tree that they have displayed by the main entrance to the Boardwalk, and it's HUGE!!!!!  You can't even see the whole width of the tree in this picture because it's so BIG!

The hat Brody is wearing is a size 2-4 year old hat!!!  He has a BIG HEAD!!! =)

Then we headed to the Nike store to look around.  We saw some very cute kicks for Brody for only TEN DOLLARS!! We bought them a size bigger than what he's in now, so it won't be long until he is able to wear them!  =)

  

Of course Brody headed to the big ball bin right away and wanted to know what every kind of ball was in the basket!  "Dat, dat, dat??" was what we heard as he pointed to every ball! I'm glad he's so curious!!

He wanted to play with all of them, too....of course!

He carried them around the store....

...and kicked at them.

He eventually got tired of the balls and wanted to explore the rest of the store on his own.

 

Checking out all the shoe boxes, and seeing if he can fit on the shelves, too!

I'm such a big boy!!  Look at me go!

He was interested in the greenery and ornaments hanging on the light poles along the sidewalks.

One of Dave's "artistic" photos.... =)  I love Brody's expression in this one!

Such an excitable little boy!

Watching the water shoot up in the fountain!

So much fun!