[topsy_retweet_small]You know, you just can’t get anything by her. Reagan was so excited to receive her personal video message from Santa Claus, made possible by the awesome creators of PortableNorthPole.tv, that we watched it four times last night. It was on the second viewing, that she noticed the photo she had taken with Santa this past weekend, sitting on the desk beside us. She picked it up and looked at it, then looked at the computer screen, then the photo, then the screen, the photo, the screen, the photo, the screen… the little wheels in her head visibly spinning.
“Mommy, why is he different?”
“What do you mean?” I answered, pretending I didn’t notice that one thing did not look like the other.
“Santa! He’s different!” she insisted, thrusting the photo up against the computer screen to compare the two.
“They’re not different, they’re both Santa,” I really had no idea what to say and was just hoping this answer would appease her. But, she was too smart to let the obvious go unchallenged.
“No, they’re not! He has more stuff here,” she said, pointing to the store Santa’s chin area.
“Well, he shaved. He cut his beard short before he came to see you. That’s all,” good thinking, Mommy! Except your answer only works with a sharp bend in the space-time continuum, since the message came AFTER we saw Santa at Outdoor World.
“But, why?”
“Because. He likes his hair short. Just like you just got your hair cut short.”
She pondered this for a minute. From the look on her face, I couldn’t be sure she was buying it, but luckily for me, decided to go back to enjoying her message from Santa.
I’m afraid my web is about to become even more tangled when next week, Santa will be visiting Reagan’s preschool. I remember my own Mom explaining that these were just Santa’s helpers, but I never liked that answer and I’m sure my little Nancy Drew won’t either. Why would they say they’re Santa if they’re really just Santa’s helpers, hmmmmmm?
Christmas. It’s complicated.
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