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Our grocery store displays a 5 foot tall, mechanical singing and moving Santa. (The meager Christmas decorations that are seen here do not exactly fall into the “classy” category).

A couple of weeks ago, Grace saw it for the first time and started screaming in absolute terror. Thankfully, we were leaving the store when she saw it and we got her out of there quick!

Earlier this week, Grace and I went shopping again. We walked in the store, she saw the Santa about 30 feet away, and she screamed and started running out of the store. So I picked her up and kept assuring her, “We’ll stay away from the Santa. But the Santa’s not scary.”

As we walked through the store, she kept looking over her shoulder for the Santa, and kept assuring herself, “Santa not scary….Santa not scary.” We passed by it quickly as we left and I told her that we were going “bye bye” from the Santa and that everything was okay now.

I still think the whole experience was fairly traumatic for her because for the past two days, she has been telling me out of the blue, “Santa not scary….bye bye Santa.”

Not sure how she’ll react when she sees Santas everywhere in the States! Hopefully they at least won’t be mechanical.

…and that means a new photo shoot for Grace! Who needs Sears when you have Gil Medina?

It was very hard to pick my favorites…but here they are:

Grace Christa Medina, age 22 months

Through a wonderful act of Providence, we are now in communication with a Dutch couple who was at Light in Africa orphanage on the very day Grace was brought in. For the first time, we have newborn pictures of our precious little girl! I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to get these pictures…the earliest pictures we had were of Grace at 5 months old. I love these pictures, but I know that they will mean even more to Grace when she is older.

January 17, 2006

…and almost two years later!