This past weekend we had our ward Christmas Party. Eden sang "Shepherd's Carol" with the rest of the Primary and got to be one of the chime-ringers. If you look close, you can see her nose is all red. She's had a cold for about a week now, it hasn't slowed her down much, but she's gone through a whole forest of tissues, so her nose is pretty sore.
The kids were so excited to see Santa, Eden made sure she got close to the front of the crowd, so Andrew and I were separated from her, but we came back later to get a picture of the two of them with Santa. Eden has been asking tons of questions about Santa, so I finally explained to her that the Santa she was seeing tonight was one of the real Santa's special helpers since Santa is so busy this time of year that he can't come to all the Christmas parties and malls before Christmas. When she asked who Santa's special helper was at the party, I told her we don't know, but we call him Santa because that's his special job. Now she thinks that someday I will grow into Mrs. Claus and Scott will grow into Santa Claus. Maybe she's been watching "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" too much. When she asked about our lack of chimney, I told her it was magic. Eden decided that means that Santa makes a magic chimney at the houses that don't have chimneys. I hope I didn't give away too much too young, but I was running out of answers! Andrew only got close enough to tell Santa what he wanted and grab a candy-cane, he did think it was pretty terrific that he got a BIG candy cane.
2 comments:
I love your explanations about Santa's helpers. We have told Abi and Everett that some people believe in Santa. It's hard to explain to a 4 year old not to tell her friends that he's not real. We'll see how it goes!
Eden is too smart! Looks like the Christmas party was fun! Brenna still doesn't really understand what Santa does at Christmas time, I tried to threaten that Santa wouldn't come to our house if she was naughty, and she didn't really get it. Oh well, I'm sure next year that will be a much more terrible threat to her.
Well, we wish we could be with you guys on Christmas, you'll have to take lots of pictures!
Oh, and your tree looks great! Ours is basically dead, so many needles fall off if you just brush it. But it was fun while it lasted.
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