Santa!

Well in Luke’s 3 years he has never met Santa.  This year Santa came to Luke’s school for their “Family Fun Day”, which took place right before their Christmas Break.  I took Luke and his baby sister in and thankfully the staff helped me out with my baby girl so that I could focus on Luke.

We went to a trough and got some “Magic Reindeer Food”, which we put out on Christmas Eve for Santa’s reindeer. After all the reindeer have a lot of ground to cover on Christmas Eve, they need to keep their energy up. After that we decorated a sugar cookie together, and as much as Luke wanted to eat it…mommy had to do it instead.  It was such a hard task, eating such a sweet tasting treat.

 Then it was time to finally see Santa.  One of Luke’s new classmates saved us a spot in line, since it was so long.  I’ve learned that when I take Luke anywhere in his walker you can only get him to stay still for a few minutes at a time.  So while Luke’s friend kept his place in line and Luke and I did laps with his walker until it was his turn to see Santa.  When there were only two kids in front of Luke, we claimed our spot in the line.

Keeping Luke still for even two kids was pretty hard.  He kept nodding his head and rocking his body, like he was saying “come on….let’s go”.  We need to work on his patience.

I was afraid Luke might be scared of Santa, but sure enough he was happier than ever.  Santa even showed him pictures of his reindeer and Luke looked and smiled like he knew what Santa was saying.  At the end of that time Luke had met a new friend.

Now after taking a picture with just Luke and Santa, we had to take one with baby sister as well.  She wasn’t so sure about this white haired guy with the funny red suit.  She stuck her bottom lip out and looked at him, like she was afraid to turn her back because who knew what he would do to her.