Our neighborhood has a long tradition of doing Christmas Eve luminaries. The boys enjoyed helping out this year, both by putting the candles in and lighting them. (Auntie Nora and I questioned the wisdom of letting three year olds play with fire, but it ended up fine.)Daniel was extremely excited yesterday to get a video email from Santa. Santa even knew that Daniel would be at Grandma and Grandpa's for Christmas!
James and Matthew are still figuring out the whole Santa thing, although James is a big Santa fan. We saw Santa at the mall before we left, and James dashed over to him and gave him a big hug. It was so cute! (Santa asked if he'd been a good boy, and Mattie came up and solemnly said, "Yes, we have.")
We told the boys that they needed to hang up their stockings tonight. Daniel went right to it. (James said, "Santa Claus is coming to town?" I told him yes, and at first he tried to hang his stocking on the tree -- that didn't quite work!) Mattie was having too much fun running around with Uncle Adrian to hang up his stocking, so James did it for him.
As they were going to bed, I told Mattie that Santa would come in the middle of the night when he was sleeping, and leave presents in their stockings since they've been good boys. Mattie then told James, "Jamesie! Santa is bringing presents for our stockings. Jamesie! If you don't eat, Santa won't bring you any presents!" (Poor James!)
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