Santa Clause Came to Town

 Santa came to visit Thomas! We had so much fun watching him discover all his fun new toys. We decided that we would participate in the Christmas tradition of Santa. Both of us grew up with Santa and looked forward to watching our children enjoy it. We haven't quite ironed out the details of how it will work as Thomas gets older as we want the focus of Christmas to be on Christ's birth and not on what Santa will bring. For now, he got 3 toys from Santa like the Magi brought 3 gifts to Baby Jesus and he got a stocking. The rest of the gifts picture are small presents from us. I would like to say that I am very proud of my shopping for Thomas. It is so easy to get wrapped up in the shopping of Christmas and wanting to get the most fabulous gift for your child. I shopping consignment sales early in the fall and purchased all of Thomas' larger gifts there for very cheap. Then I was able to order several new, smaller toys from us. I managed to get everything pictured (except the Elf on a Shelf) for less the $150.

Santa's gifts are on the right. The others are from us!

He loved these little blocks. We had to drag him away to look at his other toys!

Cute boy!

I'm gettin' outta here!

Garbage bags are way more fun than toys!

Can we do this every morning!?

Silly boy!