He’s making a list….and checking it twice

“MOMMY! I WANT THAT ONE!”  Constantly.  It’s getting hard to take.

I used to think it was kinda cute.  It’s a little much now.  So, I started telling him that he should, “add it to your Christmas list!”  To which I got the usual response, “Huh? What’s that you say?”  So I got out a piece of paper, wrote Dear Santa on it, and had him show me a couple of things in his toy magazine (those ones that come with every toy on the planet) that he liked.  I then told him that if he was a good boy, Santa would bring him a nice toy for Christmas. (OK-who are we kidding, TOYS-plural)

Well, this idea he liked!  Only problem, every time the phone rang he would ask, “Mom? That Santa?” Or every morning when he woke up, “Santa here now?”  Then I got really smart and told him that Santa wouldn’t come until we got snow. Wouldn’t you know? The next morning there was snow on the ground.  In October.  I thought I had more time for him to forget about this!  I’m still trying to explain this one to him.

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