Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Two Children, Two Santas, 16 Years Apart

Dee Dee
This is Santa at Woodland Mall in Grand Rapids. This Santa and his helpers really earned their milk and cookies getting a smile out our little girl Dee Dee, despite a long line and lots of crying little ones. Thank you Santa and Woodland, you guys did a wonderful job.


c0 Dee Dee with Santa in Woodland Mall 2012


Charlie

This was also probably Woodland Mall, circa 1996. I don't recall that it was too difficult to coax a smile out of Charlie then. It's a little different now :-) This is a scan of a Polaroid. No digital cameras or cell phones then. This photo is on my desk year-round at home.

c0 Charlie with Santa in Woodland Mall 1996



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Next year I will be able to post pictures of Dee Dee and Mimi.

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Started: 2012-12-09

3 comments:

  1. Both the kids look great - I have to admit - They've done a better job with rendering Santa in recent years!

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  2. Re Santa: They sure have! Remember Santa with the red framed glasses? I still have that picture somewhere.The dear soul, maybe he couldn't go without glasses and decided they should be red rimmed ones to be Santa. :-) Possibly this was before the days of contacts or maybe these were simply the old gentleman's glasses.

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  3. Would love to see that picture if yo you know where it is, I do remember it!

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