The kids met at 4 PM to put together the little kids' goodie bags Santa will give them. Then Santa arrived about 6 PM. Usually families line up and the Youth Court kids are there to help keep some line-order going and to lift the spirits of the little people who "can't wait ANY more!"
I guess this year wasn't quite as busy as usual. I'm not sure why, but there just weren't as many kids there--maybe because it was technically Thanksgiving weekend still. But the Youth Court kids were bored, apparently.
I had texted The Boy and asked him to please have someone take a picture of him doing the Youth Court thing for Santa, as I never get picture of him with YC, as I'm not there with them like I was at school. He laughed back at my text but sent me no picture. I mockingly asked if I needed to come down there and do it myself. He responded back with a text that they weren't doing anything, so what was he supposed to get a picture of anyway.
Finally I told him, via a text, that he just needs to take a "selfie" with Santa and whatever kids were there in the background. Then he said he couldn't do that because his phone camera is only one-directional. The next thing I knew, he was home and the whole Santa thing was over.
I showed him that he could take a "selfie" even if his camera was not reversible. I even showed him how to do it.
I even tried to get a snapshot of him while he poured and tried to drink his post-Santa-helping-Egg Nog, but that was pretty much futile too:
Anyhoo, The Boy mocked me and protested the whole idea of selfie-photos and I just decided to drop it. I didn't want to cause contention--no photo is worth that--so I dropped it too.
But a little later, I heard him in the kitchen. At the time I wondered what is up, but then got distracted and didn't go see until later. This is what I found on MY phone's camera:
Do the words "Cheeky Monkey" comes to anyone else's mind here?
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