Jason and I had never really planned on doing anything Santa, but just giving the children presents in celebration of Jesus' birthday on the 25th of the month. When we heard the whole story about this last year and I was confronted my a few other young moms that I wasn't going to allow my kids fantasy world to develop, well we decided to try this.
But this year, well are kids can't read a calendar and since the 5th was a Tuesday which is preschool day, we decided to wait until the 6th. Last night Jason sat all three kids down at the table and told them the story. He had Lexi go and select a shoe and they put that shoe by the door and placed a note that they all wrote together in the shoe. Then in the morning there were presents on the table (we don't have a tree up yet...didn't want the presents on the floor by the door, just in case one of the puppies thought they looked like a new chew toy...) I asked Lexi who the presents were for, she said Cousin Ben's birthday, well his birthday is next Friday. I said something to her about well why do they have your name on them. She had no idea. I then asked her if the letter was still in her shoe, I think she had forgotten about Daddy's story. She went and looked and then she looks at me with a big grin and asks if the presents are from Sinter Klaus. It was quite cute. I did still make them wait until Daddy stopped at home for lunch to open the presents.
Here they are all opening a package, inside is a bare essential....underwear. Lexi is very quickly outgrowing her 2T/3T ones, so she needed these. Dani is in the process of trying to potty train, so definitely good incentive.
Here they are opening their "big" present, together.
Lexi has been wanting this since she saw it in the Fisher Price catalog. It is a digital camera for little ones 3 and up (I think the twins will still be able to work it). It is great, it has a little (and I mean little) LCD screen and it is binocular instead of monocular. It is kid tough and kid friendly. We were going to have them wait until Christmas, but we think we will have our kids open presents from us, after we are home from Morrison, which will be sometime after Christmas. We wanted them to have the opportunity to capture moments on the camera out in Morrison...so, this works
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Thats a great idea. We don't do Santa at our house either. While we're not anti-Santa really, we have no plans to get into the whole Santa thing. So far we've gotten away with Santa being just another character like Mickey Mouse or whatever, but we'll see what happens in years to come.
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