I promise, pictures are forthcoming.

I left the camera out in the living room and will post pics tomorrow night, but I just wanted to write this down while I'm here.

Today (well, yesterday at this point) was a fun day. Andrew got Christmas today. Up until today, he had no idea what was going on, nor did he really care. We put up a Christmas tree and decorated it a couple weeks ago; after that he didn't care about it. We've been putting a few presents underneath it every so often; after the first couple he never noticed. He's been talking about Santa, but had no idea what he did.

This morning he woke up and relocated his bedroom into ours like normal (every morning that he wakes up on his own, he comes into our room with Hoppy, a pillow, a pillow case, two blankets, and whatever else might be on his bed and plops on ours). After he got into our bed I asked him if Santa left him anything in his. He looked at me quizzically and I pressed further. I told him that I thought Santa had left a Curious George doll in bed with him.

"George?" he asked me.

I convinced him to check it out. Thump, thump, thump, thump went little footy-pajamas down the hallway.

Mere seconds passed.

Thump, thump, thump, thump came little footy-pajamas down the hallway and he came back into our room holding George like a little baby.

"Santa gave George!" he squeaked over and over again until we left to open presents in the living room.

Even then, he didn't realize that the boxes under the tree were for him. We worked for a few seconds to convince him to tear into the first present and from that point on, he was hooked.

He'd open one, play with it for a little bit (or hand it to Mom or Dad to dismantle the packaging) and bring out the next one, asking, "Tear off?"

Whenever he'd open a toy, he'd proclaim, "Santa gave toys!"

So, now I'm sure he knows Santa as well as the materialism and commercialism of Christmas. We just need to get him to understand Christ as well as the humanity and empathy of the season.

This should make next year fun.

skot
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