Santa

It's finally here.  We've finally hit the "Santa" phase.  There is no mistaken who the jolly old man with white whiskers is.  This Christmas is for sure the most fun with Vanessa and I can't even imagine next year.  Between preschool and books, Vanessa is fully aware of this fat man in a red suit and what he signifies.  More importantly...what he brings come Christmas morning.  I hadn't even really realized just how Santa-fied she has become until she started making comments about leaving him cookies at night, how he rides in a sleigh and of course if he will bring her ALL the things on her wish list. 
Today her preschool had their holiday party and of course there was a special visitor at the end!  It was the first time Vanessa has seen Santa (other than in books and of course a Dora episode).  Shy?  Our girl?  Nope...she pretty much charged him as he was walking to his chair and immediately started saying she was a good girl and she wanted him to bring her a Dora dollhouse.  The poor guy could barely get to his seat.  I think today may have been her favorite school day yet.

A funny side note to her 'conversation' with Santa is that the night before she had received an email from Santa.  The email was a video, personalized just for her.  It was cute and what was funny was that she didn't understand that it was just a video.  Since we Skype with out of town family quite often she naturally assumed she was Skyping with Santa.  Every time he said her name and talked to her....she tried to answer and tell him something.  First it was that she wanted a dollhouse, then that she wears big girl panties. LOL.  At preschool she kept saying "remember I wanted the dollhouse Santa", it took me a minute to realize that "remember" meant that she was reminding him of their Skype call.  So funny.

Counting down the days until Christmas morning...Ho, Ho, Ho

This video is of most of the email from Santa (http://www.portablenorthpole.com/ if any parents are interested).