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November 21, 2004
Get Santa
WildChild is finally old enough to start understanding Christmas....and he's quite excited about the whole Santa thing. On the drive back from his mom's Friday afternoon, he decided, after much discussion, that he wanted a Santa suit for himself and reindeer antlers for Sollie. (Yes, we've seen "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" several times.....'several' as in a kajillion.) It took some searching, but here's the result.
Last night we took him to the annual Christmas lighting ceremony & parade in downtown Fayetteville. He loved the parade, especially the last entry which is always Santa riding a firetruck. He was squealing "Santa WAVED at me! Santa WAVED at me!" the whole time as the firetruck slowly passed us. Then it was "Let's go Ma! Chase Santa! Catch him!"
We headed up to the downtown square to see all the decorations, so he got to see Santa pass several more times. But alas, Santa left when the parade ended, which resulted in WildChild (who was riding on my shoulders by then) starting to jump up & down, and yell "Ma! Get Santa! He went that way! Go get him! Get him!" over and over and over.
We finally managed to convince him that Santa had to go home & finish making all the toys before Christmas came. He wasn't very happy about it, but we managed to avoid nuclear toddler meltdown.
Santa, he said later, is his new best friend.
Posted by Rita at November 21, 2004 07:43 AM
Comments
OMG! How cute is that picture!
Posted by: yayaempress at November 22, 2004 01:02 PM
Wouldn't that make the cutest Christmas card? They were both so proud of their hats. It was cracking us up.
Posted by: rita at November 22, 2004 01:13 PM