Sunday, December 19, 2010

Letter to Santa

Nate decided he needed to write a letter to Santa this morning.

I may not have mentioned my ambivalence toward the whole "Santa thing." I grew up not believing in Santa - I just figured it out at an early age and my parents didn't try to convince me otherwise (Thank you, Mom and Dad! Really!). I have never felt comfortable talking to the boys about Santa - because it just feels silly. So I haven't pushed Santa on the boys - and I'm just letting it develop naturally (or however they pick it up from others.)

This year, Nate has really bought in to Santa. And I'm okay with it. Mostly. I keep wondering how my little boy who questions everything just accepts this as a blind truth. But I'm willing to let him have this part of childhood. I mean, I wanted to believe in unicorns when I was his age.

So, back to the Santa letter. I let him write it himself - he has made such strides in writing since starting kindergarten - this summer the only thing he would write was his name (and grudgingly).

So I got out a piece of paper, and let him get started. He picked the blue paper, so unfortunately it doesn't photograph well. :(

Lately he has been changing what he wants from Santa at least daily - it varies from a new Pillow Pet, to a new stuffed frog, to a new fuzzy animal (see a pattern here? He is obsessed with stuffed animals). For months he has been talking about wanting a big fuzzy snake, but hasn't mentioned it in reference to Santa. (We have a big fuzzy snake in the storage compartment of my car...) But I didn't prompt him at all when he wrote this letter.

Der Satu

I wud like a big snake

Nate

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