Saturday morning we had breakfast with Santa at one of my customers’ companies in South Boston. This is an annual event and we have been attending for 8 years. It’s one of the highlights of the holiday season for the kids. Santa and his wife told me a cute story about something that happened at the breakfast with Santa when Adlani was around 2. Santa hands out gifts to each child, which the parents assist with. The budget for the gifts is $10 each, to try to keep it equitable. So Adlani received a really cool top from Santa that year, and he just loved it. Then the little boy next to him opened a scale-model Hess truck, with a helicopter on the top. Adlani looked at the truck and looked back at his top a few times, then took his top back up to Santa, handed it over and said, “Ruck! Ruck!” I had no clue about what was going on and neither did Santa, but Mrs. Claus did and she tells the story every year.
The paper in Santa’s hand is a page that Norah colored for him.
Here’s a photo from the year of the “ruck” (2008):
This video was taken the following year and not much has changed since then…Santa is the real deal:
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