Dear Santa,

Today before lunch I helped the boys write letters to Santa. William is still at that very sweet age where he is happy and content with everything that he has. His list is primarily what Henry thinks he would want. Henry had several ideas, with the exeption of a Venus fly-trap, they're mostly all things that have been consistently on his wish list for the past month or two. Speaking of the Venus fly-trap, Henry has been picking up all kinds of interesting vocabulary from the other children at school. Luckily, not interesting like 4-letter words interesting. Just things like "Bakugan", apparently the hottest new toy trend for boys in the 4's class. Here's a conversation from last week:
Henry:"I'm going to buy Jack a Bakugan for his birthday and then he's going to get me one for my birthday."
Me: "What's a Bakugan?"
Henry: "Umm, I don't know but I have to get Jack one for his birthday so he gets me one for mine."
I still don't know what a Bakugan is. But I know that Kale (another friend from school) has one and Jack is getting one from us for his birthday (whenever that is). 
Today after school he chomped me with an empty diaper box and told me it was a Venus fly-trap. Again, he wasn't sure what it was, but it's all the rage in his class. He added it to his Christmas letter as a "p.s.". Then when I explained that it's a real plant that eats things, he crossed it off.






We're planning to bring the letters to the post office to mail. They have a special box this month for Santa.