Santa Fun

We have had a fun time so far this holiday season. We are getting the concept about Santa and his reindeer's, learning about Baby Jesus at Sunday school and with our Little People Nativity scene, enjoyed driving around at night looking at all the lights and learning not to touch the ornaments on the tree or the presents under it.  That last one took a few days and a few broken ornaments. Once they got the hang of leaving the tree alone I put all the presents under it to really test their curiosity.  It only took one morning to get them to understand that we just look at the presents.  I can't wait until Christmas morning when I tell them they can finally open them.  They will be surprised and maybe a little confused.

We have had a few encounters with Santa so far.  Neither one went great, but the second went a little better than the first.  First, we had a breakfast with Santa with our Mother's of Multiples group.  We had a blast playing everyone's new toys and there was a ton of good food, but we didn't not enjoy Santa to much.  Actually not a single picture was taken in Santa's lap, that's how bad it was. 

Yummy breakfast

Carter's new car from Santa



This is about as close as they got to him



Coloring a pretty picture to take to Santa

So we decided to give it another shot and they did a little better.  We went to explore Santa's winterland at the Bass Pro Shop.  They have a wonderful little area set up for kiddos to play, color and write a letter to Santa, and get a free photo with Santa himself.  Luke was excited about it all day.  We talked about Santa and that we were going to sit in his lap and that he says 'ho ho ho'.  Carter didn't seem as interested.  Well the picture shows for it.  Neither one was very thrilled to sit in the strange man's lap, but Luke tolerated it for the photo unlike Carter. 

 

Our 2010 Santa photo




Luke checking out his gift he asked Santa for :)

On the reindeer carousel