Santa Came!!

About a week before Christmas, we decided to take the kids to the store and kind of investigate what they wanted in order to help them with their list for Santa. We went through every toy isle at Wal-Mart, and Jay wasn't impressed with ANYTHING! Well, he did like the $150 bike on display, but he wasn't interested in anything affordable. We'd gotten some ideas from Karah, and were wondering what to do for Jay's list when we walked passed the kid's bedding isle and a "Car's" character pillow caught his eye. He was adament that it was HIS pillow, he "needed" it, it was his "favorite". While we were trying to coax it away from him, he saw the Wall-E bedspread and went nuts. "OH WOW!! A Wall-E bed! Oh, this is awesome! Look, its Wall-E! This is MY bed..." and he kept going on and on and on! I asked him if he wanted to put that on his list for Santa, and he said "YES!" Unfortunately, he thought that meant we were buying that and the Car's pillow for him right then and there. We tried to explain that he needed to let Santa know first so that he could bring it for Christmas if he was able to, but Jay had a hard time understanding it. It took a lot to get him to calm down, and a very sweet couple were so wonderful in talking to him. The lady almost bought the pillow for him because she couldn't stand to see him so sad, but we explained politely that Santa would most likely bring it for him, if he was good. Jay eventually did calm down and we were able to see Santa a few days later. I don't know where Jay came up with it, but instead of asking for the Wall-E bed or the Cars pillow, he asked for money. Good thing I wrote Santa myself, because we had one very happy little boy on Christmas morning when he woke up to see that Santa brought him the Wall-E bedding along with a new (to him) bed from Grandma and Grandpa Richardson that fit the bedding. Dan and I ended up getting him the Cars pillow, and we have not had a Jayden want to sleep in our bed for the first time in his life! (Thank you, Santa!) Karah got a Princess chair so that she had somewhere to sit while watching shows like Jayden with his couch, and she loves that thing. She barely sits in it, but if a certain little boy gets close, her protective instincts kick in and take over. She has perfected the word "NO" and uses it quite often with anybody within earshot. She also got a baby buggy and high chair from Santa, and the Care Bears and new babies are well fed and well traveled now, all while she's trotting around in her little Princess shoes. She wasn't that great at walking in them at first, and even bit one and threw it across the room in a fit of rage because she kept falling down. She didn't want anything to do with them the rest of Christmas day, but the next morning the first thing she did was march upstairs, grab a pair of shoes, and then she stuck her feet up in the air and demanded I put them on her. She not only walked laps around the house perfectly, but she even managed to chase down Jay after he "kidnapped" her baby without falling down. Joanne was the perfect middle name for that child...We had a wonderful Christmas this year, and we hope everyone else did, too!