Matthew has been obsessed with gifts this year. He has been tearing pages out of catalogs and showing us what he wants for Christmas now for several weeks. He will show us the pages and ask us what we like best on the page, and then proceed to tell us all about the things that he wants. This happens multiple times a day. It's gotten so bad that we had to hide the torn-out catalog pages from him this weekend! He has changed his mind 6 times already about what he wants Santa to bring him. First it was a train, then an aircraft carrier, then a track for his cars, then the aircraft carrier again, then the train, and so on...
So, we went to see Santa yesterday at the mall. Matthew and Kayla were excited to tell Santa what they want for Christmas. I was excited that Matthew was finally going to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas. In the car we realized that Matthew had brought along one of his catalog pages to show Santa. Yikes! I'm thinking that it probably is not cool to show Santa a catalog page, but figured that other kids had probably done worse, and Matthew wouldn't be the rudest kid to ever sit on Santa's lap with his silly catalog page. But Andrew was not going to have any part of it. "No showing catalog pages to Santa!" Matthew threw a small fit, saying that Santa would bring him the wrong thing if he didn't show him the catalog page. I told Matthew that Santa would know what to bring him, but that didn't seem to calm him down. Andrew told Matthew he was acting like a little brat and Santa would bring him a lump of coal. That didn't help. Finally, we reminded him that Santa was watching him right now, and he finally decided that he should stop. We all got out of the car and headed into the mall...
The actual visit with Santa went off without a hitch. Last year, when Kayla caught a glimpse of Santa, she climbed up Andrew like a monkey escaping a lion attack. This year she actually sat on Santa's lap and told him that she wanted a "tricycle, a pink tricycle." Matthew told Santa he wanted a "diesel train." Santa told the kids to look up at the mall skylights to see if they could see the reindeer, and there were actually antlers up there! Very cute. The pictures were not great, though...the kids had that fake, uncomfortable smile on their faces. Oh well, we didn't want that $40 picture package of wallets and a key chain anyway!
When we got back to the car ready to head home, Matthew says, "if Santa brings me a Thomas train instead of a diesel train set, I'm going to be very upset." This of course prompted a stern lecture from both parents about being thankful for getting anything, and how some kids don't get toys at Christmas, and some kids are starving in Africa. My lectures always seem to come back to the starving children. Oh well, you've gotta love kids and Christmas!
2 comments:
Your house sounds like my house! I love that Andrew laid down the law with bringing the catalogue pictures to Santa. That is hilarious. We do the "starving children" talk too - but my kids just don't get it. We aren't even taking our kids to see Santa this year:)
Matthew is just very particular about his trains, jeeesh! I had to laugh that you paid $40 for a keychain and pics you will throw in a drawer....but at least you are a good mommy and daddy!
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