and while it’s natural for little ones to cry when forced to interact with a costumed character, i would bawl AT MY PRESENT AGE if i had to interact with some of these!
Yeah, I never had Easter pics with the bunny taken of my kids...Santa was enough. I did take selfies of our family on Easter and the kids thought one extra minute dressed in church clothes was torture.
One of these days I will write about our visits to a Catholic church in CA while we were out there during my mother’s passing. It was inspiring.