Scary Santa

Dave's cousin posted this link on her Facebook page last night, where you answer a few questions and you get a video from Santa for free.  I thought to myself "Self, you should TOTES do that for Timmy, he would be so stoked".  So I did.  I uploaded a couple pics for Santa to have in Timmy's file and I answered a few questions.  I got the video emailed to me so I could show him this morning.

I open my email, and there is an email from Santa Claus with the subject Video Message for Timmy.  This did NOT go over as planned. My imagined scenario went something like this:

Me: Timmy!  You have an email from Santa!
Timmy: What does it say? (eyes filled with childhood wonderment)
Me: Let's open it and see!
Timmy: OK!  You are the best mommy ever!  Daddy should totally buy you those Ugg boots you have been wanting since last Christmas!
Me: (opening the video) You are so sweet Timmy for thinking about mommy and how Daddy should buy me those gray cardi boots for Christmas.  That's being a good friend, now lets watch the video!
Timmy: OK

Then we snuggle together to watch the video.

BUT, this is NOT how it went.  The actual events went more like this:

Me: Timmy!  Oh MY GOSH! I got an email from Santa and it says its a message for Timmy!
Timmy: :::pulls woobie over his head:::: I just wanna watch Handy Manny
Me: Timmy, its a VIDEO from SANTA!  Sit up and lets see what he has to say.
Timmy: :::pulls blanket further over head:::: I DON'T WANT TO!  I JUST WANNA WATCH HANDY MANNY!
Me: TIMOTHY!  Take the blanket off your head and watch the video from Santa or I am going to call him and tell him not to bring you anything AT ALL!
Timmy: You are so mean!
Me: WATCH THE VIDEOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Timmy: Mommy, I swear to God if you tell me to watch the video again I am going to die.
Me: Fine.
Timmy: Good.

Sigh.  What exactly have I learned from this?  1. Apparently Timmy does not want visual reminder that Santa is coming soon and knows that he hasn't always been the nicest kid. 2. The "I'm gonna call Santa" threat is starting to not work. I think he is catching on that I just pretend to dial. 3. I am done trying to force Christmas merriment on my kids.  I can do it all by myself.  I don't need any help (except getting the tree...Tim is still on the hook for that!).  and 4. aside from the Cardi boots, a Nintendo DS would be nice.  They have them used at GameStop for 70 bucks...

 I am curious about something though...for those of you who were "bad kids" when you were little, were you afraid of Santa?  I was a perfect angel, so Santa and I were like BFF.  I never shied away from a pedophile in a Santa costume at the mall, in the grocery store, where ever.  But Timmy is NOT a fan.  So I am wondering if its some subconscious knowledge that "Awww crap, I don't always listen, and this dude is gonna call me on it and possibly rat out the things my mom doesn't know I did, so I should be afraid and mom won't make me sit on that creepers lap".  And don't get me wrong, Timmy is not a BAD kid.  He has his moments, but he IS 3 and full of more energy than one person should be allowed to have.  Maybe a better way to put that would be that he misbehaves more than your average bear.  Yeah that's it.  That's the ticket.

Feel free to pass along some advice if you have or were a Santa hating kid. 

Til later...you know you love me...XOXO