My tender hearted girlie;)

Travis and I decided to take the girls to see Santa at the mall. Jordyn has been sick for the last three weeks so this was the first chance we had to go. It's Monday morning so I'm thinking that it shouldn't be too busy. Everyone should still be at work, right? Um, not!! First of all, as we were walking in, there were a bunch of pigeons walking around and Makenna was worried that they weren't getting out of the way of the cars. Travis said they were walking fast so they would get out of the way. We get into the mall and there is a line that is three deep. I go....ok.....it will take a little while and so we walk to get to the end of the line. We walked and walked and soon realized that the line was not only three deep but wrapped around to the back of Santa. We looked at each other and said..."heck no!!!" So meeting Santa consisted of us watching him from the side for a couple of minutes and saying, "Phew...it's a good thing we got your letter in to him early! Let's go look at the doggies in the pet store!" It worked and as we were walking back to our car, one of the little pigeons didn't make it across the road and was splattered all over the street. Makenna freaked out and started crying and saying, "He died!!" over and over. We kept trying to tell her that he was in heaven now and that he wasn't hurt anymore. But it didn't help. She just kept crying, "No, the cars aren't supposed to hit the birdies. He died! He died!!!" She had a full blown fit. As we drove away, she said we needed to go back to make sure he gets out of the street and flies away!! Tears were streaming down her face and all I could do was hold her hand. It hurt my heart to hear the hurt in her voice.....for a pigeon!! Finally, (since we were in the neighborhood of Winchells) we decided to get doughnuts and that helped her mood a little. We got lunch and had a doughnut for dessert and tried to keep birds out of the discussion;p