Halloween was absolutely the indicator that this Christmas season was going to be a fun one for us. W is so into learning about everything from Advent to Santa to twinkle lights to hanging the stockings by the chimney with care. He is now delighting in being asked by strangers what he wants for Christmas. At first he would give people a blank stare, but after a day of preschool where the kids dictated a list to Santa he understood better. Now he has no hesitation when asked. “I wanna FIRETUCK!”
Oh yes the magical siren song of vehicles with sirens. He hunts for emergency vehicles on every drive we take and should we encounter an ambulance or police car he will shout it out with glee, “Do you see it?? AMBULANCE MAMA! See it?? SEE IT????”
The only correct response to this inquiry is, “yes. I see it.” Any deviation and it really pisses him off.
This last weekend our small borough’s emergency vehicles drove through the neighborhood so that Santa could see where all the boys and girls live. Santa rode around on top of a screaming firetruck. Even though he was in the thick of sick there was no way I could have kept W from seeing such a sight.
I can’t wait for Christmas morning this year.
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That is wonderful that the fire department drives Santa around. I love how excited W is for Christmas.
awww it is such a delight to bask in tiny tots thought and joys at Christmas or anytime of the year, for that matter. Enjoy it! They soon grow up and some of them move way far away .. like … Alaska! Can you tell I am missing my youngest son this Christmas?
My daughter never cared much when I missed what she saw – mild frustration was about it. But if I pointed out something and she didn’t see it? Oh, there were tears and much distress. In fact, she’s 5, and yesterday a hugely fat squirrel ran in front of the car and up a fence and she was too busy crying about something else to notice it…so that led to more tears because she wanted to see the squirrel.
Christmas will be fun for sure with W…
My neighborhood does this too!! They start next week when the kids are on Christmas break.
My youngest loves trucks of all shapes and sizes. My mom got him the Smokey Fire truck. Have you seen it? SUPER cute.
And is Santa buying lots of fire trucks?
We are also in a fire truck phase. They drove santa around in a fire truck for us, too. Only they did it right about the time we were trying to get Little Guy to sleep. So we let him stay up a little later. Little Guy loved seeing the fire truck on our street! He could not believe it! In fact, he is still talking about it.
I suspect we have a fire truck or two on our shopping list…
This is such a sweet age our boys are at, and I just love seeing the images of W marveling at Santa on the fire engine (my brother was once that Santa atop a fire engine, and I followed the truck around while they made the rounds around their little town–I love it when fire depts. do this!). My son is also thoroughly enjoying learning everything there is to learn about Christmas this year, and it’s the best. I adore the enthusiasm he has for all the little things. He *adores* Christmas lights on houses, and he begs us to show him more and more and more.
And he too learned about asking Santa for something. He’s decided, after seeing his Grandpa cut our Christmas tree down with a chainsaw that he would like “a little chainsaw.” We will wake up Christmas morning at his grandparents’ house, where I’ve been told Santa is delivering a little chainsaw. I can’t wait.
fire trucks! we entered this phase when The Who was about 1.5 and we are still solidly in the thick of it. He knows more about fire trucks than any adult I know.
That is what Smooch is asking for, too. Although he actually already has a few. He is getting a fire station with a truck so he will be pretty excited. You are just entering the stage where they kind of get this whole Holiday thing. It is really cool!