Our family recently enjoyed the downtown Christmas parade and Festival of Lights. As the parade was drawing to an end, hoards of children were waiting for the prized float with the man to come down the lane. When Santa turned the corner in all his white-bearded, red-suited glory, children everywhere started to squeal.
“There he is!”
“There’s Santa.”
I lifted 2-year-old Mary Elizabeth above the crowds of manic children, so she’d have a better shot of catching a glimpse of Santa. “Can you see?” I asked.
She nodded with a very serious expression upon her face. It seems her opinion of the jolly, old man is not quite as approving as the surrounding multitude.
My daughter warily eyed the waving and ho-ho-hoing Santa and said, “That guy makes me nervous.”
So they may be quite the handful at times, God gives you these great moments of insight out of the mouths of babes:)
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So cute! I love those moments of truth. Last year Ben and Sophie were both quite nervous when we encountered Santa at Home Depot. Any strange man talking to them gets the silent treatment, why should Santa be any different?
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My 2yo son shares ME’s appraisal of Santa. In fact, his nervousness extends even to Santa images in some of the Christmas books we have (last night, during the Polar Express – which he continually asks for because of the train – when we got to the page with Santa, he said “Mommy, turn page.” I’ve just ordered him some more books on the First Christmas (yay 2-day Amazon shipping) to fill in the holes in our Christmas book library now that I’ve removed all the Santa books.
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Oh, my! That’s priceless!
I hope I can see a real Santa but for sure, my kids will be more excited than me…
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