Merry Christmas

Christmas was officially declared once the cake and Tomas were brought out on Christmas Eve

part of the feast. Kai said "he looked pretty"

Kai's masterpiece

fa la laing

The cookies and milk set out for Santa. This was the first year that he actually understood the idea of Santa Claus. The entire month leading up to Christmas he was so excited and would pretend to call and email Santa constantly declaring he wanted a "scooter and that's it!" but sadly when it came down to the hours before Jolly Old St. Nick would arrive he was absolutely terrified of the idea of a strange chubby man entering our home in the middle of the night. He was so petrified when I tucked him in for the night he broke out into hysterical tears and begged me to call Santa and to tell him not to come. I have to admit it was a bit difficult to take these fears seriously and not let out even the slightest giggle.

Santa luckily was unreachable and the scooter arrived!

The bean vs the tree vs me. By Christmas I threw in the towel and allowed Noah to enjoy the sweet/metallic taste of victory

Preparing to give the scooter a proper go

and we're off

and we're down

Cheerful little spectator

This was our "hey we're tourists at Tokyo Tower" moment

Seems that Santa is a pretty cool guy after all and he was "just joking" of being scared of him

and now we're an unstoppable scooting pro