I just checked the NORAD Santa Tracker and Santa is Guaymas, Mexico and headed for Tucson, Arizona next. Boulder is perhaps only an hour or so behind!
Audrey has expressed that she isn't so keen on reindeer landing on our roof and Santa entering our house on Christmas eve - it's an apprehension she has about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy as well. Once she finds that the milk and cookies and carrots (for the reindeer, of course) we left out have been eaten tomorrow morning, though, I hope her fears will ease.
What does Audrey want for Christmas? 11 cookies. Yes, you read that right. My 3-year-old wants 11 cookies and 11 cookies only. We've been asking her and that's been her answer for weeks now (although when pressed about "Why 11?" she upped the number to "A hundred ten million cookies," or something along those lines).
How great is that? 11 cookies. That's a parent's dream! Piece of cake - or, um, cookie I guess. Naturally we didn't only get her that but we've placed an assortment in a special blue tin under the tree and tomorrow she'll get just what she asked for.
It's a blessing and a curse though - the stakes will only go higher from here. I mean, next year it could be 12 cookies or something crazy like that.
Merry Christmas.
