Christmas Eve - 2010

Wow, what a difference a year makes! Last year, Owen was a little over one year old and had absolutely no idea nor care about Santa. He liked taking a picture with the old man, but that was about it. Opening presents was ok – but he really just wanted us to open them and give them to him.

This year, Santa is THE MAN WITH THE CANDY. My previous post about advent calendars explained how Santa has been a regular visitor at night to the Santoki house. Each night, he has brought a piece of candy for Owen (3 Musketeers for breakfast anyone? Yes, please!) When Owen went to visit Santa to take his picture, Santa gave him a candy cane. When Owen went to visit Santa #2 at the fire station, Santa gave him 3 candy canes. So basically, Santa rocks.

So Christmas Eve started out with a trip down to Nana’s house and a visit with Aunt Debi and her family including some special guests – Noriko and her son, Takemi from Japan and Matt’s new girlfriend, Molly from Oklahoma. Owen had a blast playing with Grace and Takemi while the grownups got to enjoy some delicious brunch courtesy of Nana.



After we got home and Owen took a nap, Nana joined us for dinner and Christmas preparations. We watched the obligatory “Elmo’s Christmas Countdown” and got into our special Thomas The Train Christmas pajamas. Then we took a few pictures to document the evening. Before bed, we set out some cookies for Santa. Owen was thoughtful enough to try a bite out of each one just to make sure Santa would like them. Then, he was so quick to go to sleep knowing that the Big Guy was coming yet again to bring him “chocolate and presents.”

Steve, Nana and I celebrated Christmas Eve by eating fondue and cookies and then staying up fairly late to assemble and set out presents. Then we all went to bed to wait for Santa. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post to see if he came…