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Christmas train

K has been asking to read "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" over
and over lately. "Halloween was a long time ago," I said. "We should
get you a Christmas book."

"Christmas TRAIN."

"Christmas train?"

"We saw it at the store," said K, "but we didn't buy it YET. It's for
Christmas. Santa will bring it."

"Is this true?" I asked JW. "Is Santa going to bring him a Christmas train?"

"That electric train we saw at Home Depot with Santa riding on top?"
he asked K. "That was two weeks ago. You still remember that?"

K nodded.

"I don't think Santa is planning to bring you that train. What if
Santa brings you something different for Christmas?" I asked.

He looked dismayed. "But I LIKE trains!"

I dropped it. But now I understand why he kept asking to go to "the
store" instead of going home from school.

I told this story to CT, who suggested telling K about the time Santa
brought a dish sponge, or a bottle of eyedrops, or a computer adapter,
to give him the idea that Santa just delivers random objects. I'm
going to try it.

Full post as published by Magic Cookie on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).