Dear Santa.....

It's kind of with a heavy heart that I post this picture of BB's first hand written Santa List.

We've been meaning to get round to doing it for a couple of weeks - all the groundwork had been done regarding thinking about what he would like Santa to bring with Daddy taking him for visits to the toy section in John Lewis. He spoke excitedly and animatedly about how he couldn't decide between the Lego Oil Tanker or the Police Rescue boat. Hard decision to make for a 5 year old! We were so pleased that we'd managed to avoid the console culture for another year. Or so we thought!

Big sis rather frustratingly has come for her last two visits proudly clutching her ds and it has been whipped out at every opportunity and gawped at by BB and LL. interactive play was replaced by one person sitting glued to the screen with an audience of two peeking over their shoulder. It didn't matter who was playing...the scenario remained the same - and it's for that single reason I didn't want BB to be too exposed to them. Why couldn't it have waited until after christmas?

Anyways BB came home from school today and announced that he had to write his Santa list. He was really excited about it and told me he wanted to whisper in my ear what he was going to ask for (which is what he does when he wants to tell you about something he really wants but is a bit shy about...) and my heart sank like a lead balloon when he excitedly whispered 'a DS!' it sank even more when I said to him I wasn't sure if Santa would be able to bring him that and his face fell. I told him it was quite a big thing to ask for- but that doesn't make sense to a five year old as he just explained that it was actually rather small! I told him he could put it on the list, but that he had to realise that we didn't always get all that we asked for. Why oh why didn't we do it as I said a couple of weeks ago? That way it would have been 'posted' and been unable to be altered.
He was so gracious about it though, and said that he understood that he might not get it, but could he put it on anyway? I helped him with the spelling of the words and he did all of the writing without a grumble. I did help with suggestions of what he might put on the list and we did manage to wait until number 5 before the question of the ds came up again.

With such a beautifully scribed letter and a lovely picture which he did whilst I wasn't looking, its the first time he's actually asked for something off of his own back.

How can Santa possibly shatter this little boys Christmas dreams?

Gutted, but let's see what christmas brings?