Priceless portraits: Sleeping Santa, child win Christmas

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A little boy's visit to Santa was documented for the ages.

On a post to Donnie's Daddy Daycare's Facebook page, a father said that his little boy fell asleep while waiting to meet the big guy. Santa asked dad not to wake the sleeping child, but instead posed as if he, too, fell asleep while reading "The Night Before Christmas."

It looks like no creature was stirring, not even Santa, in these photos that have since gone viral: