The little guy is 3 and this Christmas is going to be so much fun. He is not really enjoying Santa Clause, but he is enjoying everything else.
Here is the beginning of Christmas stories:
* Our small town has a town wide celebration to celebrate everyone together. Santa was there, hay rides, horse and carriage (Clydesdales). All the kids were given the opportunity to ride the carriage with the Clydesdale, however, my little guy says those horses are bigger than the trees and just wanted to watch them closely. He eyeballed the horses and wanted to see the kids that got on made it off. The suspiciousness of the horses was quite distinct and he was concerned about the gigantic horses eating them. What do gigantic horses eat? He later informed us that gigantic horses need bigger dishes to eat their food. Then he proceeded to ask the gentleman that was holding the reins if horses poo bigger than dogs. The horse was a lot bigger than his dog and he would not want that poo in his yard.
* The first time he saw Santa was at a gathering with other homeschoolers. Santa was handing out candy canes. He really wanted a candy cane. He gently walked up to him and said may I please have a candy. Santa asked him if he wanted to sit on his lap. He immediately said no thank you. Santa asked him if he was afraid. No I'm not afraid I just want the candy. Santa went to pick him up on his lap. He quickly went behind me and said mom, no! Santa needs a bath. He smells. Santa stood back up quickly and groaned. I quickly said excuse me and went to walk away. Timothy says to me in his serious (loud) voice. "He needs extra soap mom. Lots of extra soap." He has not been interested in any Santa since.
*The little guy was offered a hotdog at an event we attended. He quickly said "no thank you. Do you know what is in a hot dog? I can tell you there are bug parts" The man offering started to laugh. Timothy quickly said" this is not a laughing manner. Bug parts are not for eating." The man turns to me and said I thought he was going to refer to scraps they use. I have never heard of bug parts.
* Christmas lights are adorning the houses in the community. As it gets darker earlier it takes longer to do anything as if we pass a lighted house he insists that we slow down because we need to appreciate the lights. To run to the store we drive down the alley to avoid any happenings (as he refers to it). When we pull up to our home I hear why don't we have anything happening at our home. We don't have lights outside, but the inside it over the top decorated. Everywhere we go it is ..... there is nothing happening at our home.