We have a giant Christmas tree in the middle of one of the streets downtown. When they re-did the street in fact they installed a tree stand right into the street! The friday after Thanksgiving there is carol singing and Santa comes to town and lights the tree. Last year my parents took Alex and he really enjoyed it - no interest in seeing Santa but liked the tree lighting. This year Alex and I went together. We figured Maya was still too little to like being out in the cold that long and just waiting for things.
I have to admit, it was pretty cool. Alex really got into the carol singing. He was singing along even when he didn't know the words and danced the whole time.
When Santa arrived up on stage the look on his face was pretty precious, I couldn't snap a picture because I was holding him up so he could see better. They had a great Santa - his hair and beard are real so it looks much less "costume-y".
Alex loved the count down to the tree lighting. And we got to do it twice - because the tree didn't light up the first time! Actually it didn't the second time either, Santa was trying to figure out what to say and do after the second countdown and the tree just randomly turned on finally.
This year Alex was determined that he wanted to stand in line and actually talk to Santa. He was very good and very determined......we stood in line for about an hour. It was kind of fun, there were some horse drawn carriages all decorated and lit up riding around downtown to watch. It was snowing lightly and not overly cold. I gave him several chances to change his mind and come back another day but he was determined.
Thankfully most people were feeling the Christmas spirit - the lady behind us offered to save our place in the Santa line when Alex announced about half way through that he had to go potty. Then the people in line at the nearest potty let us go ahead of them because it soon became aparent (due to all the dancing around and grabbing himself) that this was an emergency!
When it was finally our turn we went into Santa's house and Alex announced he did not want to sit on his lap, just stand next to him. Fine by me! And he announced he didn't want his picture taken...not so fine by me so I tried to sneak a few.
He told Santa he only wanted one thing for Christmas - Star Wars Legos of his very own.
So I guess I will be shopping for some Star Wars legos.
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