Christmas

We all had a great time at Christmas. For weeks leading up to Christmas, Jack was very consistent in requesting "the barn from Costco" from Santa. Costco gets that stuff in early and does not restock. But Santa must have received our email, because Jack did find a barn under the tree. The legos from Uncle Pate and garage from Grandma and Grandpa were also big hits. Jack "got" Santa in the sense that he figured he was a pretty cool thing. But for several mornings after Christmas, he wanted to check his stocking to see if Santa came, and sometimes when we would go out and arrive back home, he would say "maybe Santa came and filled my stocking." We kept telling him that Santa will not come back for a year. This is not really a time scale he understands (the future is "when its daytime" if it is currently night and "when it is nighttime" if it is day -- for example, this is when he plans to use the potty). But eventually he seemed to accept that Santa was not coming back for a while. He pretty quickly shifted to identifying things that he wants for his birthday.

I can't quite figure out where he got this from (certainly not his parents), but Jack suggested we send Santa a thank-you note! If we were better parents, we would have followed up on this impulse (and maybe even sent some to actual real people too), but alas...

More Christmas photos here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/reberdenckla/Christmas2010#