The big man in red

To see Christmas through your children's eyes is truly magical... maybe more magical than Disney. This year the kids were SO into Christmas. They truly "get" the meaning of Christmas, but they most certainly get the concept of Santa and what he can do for them :) They wrote their lists out for Santa - by themselves, with no help from us. It was great - we were so proud of our parenting skills - getting our 5 year old and 6 year old to sound out words on their own, figure it out on their own, and we were still able to pick it up and decipher what it was supposed to say without them telling us.

We picked them up from school on Friday and headed straight to the mall, lists in hand. They were so excited. We only had 2 other families in line before us, so the wait was short, to us anyway! I really wish I'd kept the lists, or at least taken a picture of the lists just as a memory, but the kids were so excited to hand-deliver their list to Santa!  You can even see in the picture, Kate was literally jumping off the ground with excitement!

Jumping with excitement!

Showing Santa their lists