Letters to Santa, 2009
December 7th, 2009
Every year, we have the kids dictate letters to Santa. This year, Siena wrote her own, complete with phonetic spelling and inventive punctuation. Elliot dictated his and then signed it with a bunch of capital E’s. Because if one is good, several more are better. Kind of how I feel about chocolates, or hundred dollar bills.
Anyway, here are their letters, painstakingly tapped out with two fingers onto my iPhone (random capital letters by Elliot and extraneous hyphens and apostrophes by Siena included as seen in the originals).
Elliot:
Dear Santa,
I have a Wall-e and I want Eve. I have been a good boy. I I OOO t
E E E EVE
Siena:
Dear Santa,
I want ‘ Eve. I want my one [read: own] computer. And I also want a magniflying glass. I love- you.
Love – Siena
Yeah. I think they’re getting Wall-e’s girlfriend Eve. And I don’t think Siena’s getting her own computer, although it would be kind of nice not to be pestered about PBSKids.org while I’m doing something important. Like scanning Facebook and giving the thumb’s up to people’s pictures of kids in holiday outfits, while ignoring the fact that I still need to order our stupid holiday cards that I made back in October and even bragged about in a fit of smugness on this very blog, before ignoring their existence for six weeks and oh, crap, they’re going to be late again and WHEN will I learn? Smug never works out for me.
December 8th, 2009 at 12:35 am
It’s so clear that I have a 4-year-old and 2-year-old because I read “I want my one” as “I want my own” before you even clarified.
And I also want to give my kids their own computer to keep them from kicking me off Facebook to play the stupid Curious George games.
Eve is super cool, BTW. They’ll love her. I I OOO T E E E
December 8th, 2009 at 10:24 am
You can send one of those Holliday cards to me at Chrysalis if you have an extra. I would love that.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Avery wants Siena to know what is on her list… as follows:
Play Doh ice cream set
Littlest Pet Shops
Barbie Glamour Camper
Avery is reading this over my shoulder and can read JUST enough now that I can’t crack jokes about what she will or will not actually receive.
Also – hurry up and get one of those cards to me, too.
December 13th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
So is Santa bringing the magnifying glass, by any chance? Since that would be an awesome gift, and a grandma could certainly help out, if need be.
YLM
December 16th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Thanks for clarifying. As a kidless person, I had no clue what Eve was.
About those Christmas cards…well, I think we’re going for Happy New Year cards now.