Kids crack me up!
Dec. 24th, 2007 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zolaThe roommate's munchkins are visiting for Christmas this year...
So today, I pulled up the NORAD Santa site, where they "track" Santa's progress, and called the eldest over. "Look!" I said. "He's almost in Africa!"
"Come and see!" she called her sister. "He's real! Look! They have him on radar. The italicized word, you understand, was pronounced in a tone of smug, knowledgable satisfaction. She wandered off again, completely content. She's sort of on the border of belief this year, so I don't expect to get away with it next year. It's a fun site and I've been just dying to get a chance to impress a child with it--when I found it some years ago, mine were past the age of believing in Santa Claus except in the spiritual sense.
The youngest came over and I showed her the youtube clip NORAD had up there of Santa leaving the North Pole to start his busy night. (All the clips).
I almost died laughing when they showed Santa passing the North Pole, a candy-cane striped pole in the snowy expanse and she suddenly said "There. The North Pole," in much the same tones her sister had used on the word "radar". Apparently she believes that there is an actual barber-striped pole stuck in the ground there.
I'd hate to disappoint her, does anyone know anybody who lives near the North Pole who can go put a striped post in the ground? ;)
So today, I pulled up the NORAD Santa site, where they "track" Santa's progress, and called the eldest over. "Look!" I said. "He's almost in Africa!"
"Come and see!" she called her sister. "He's real! Look! They have him on radar. The italicized word, you understand, was pronounced in a tone of smug, knowledgable satisfaction. She wandered off again, completely content. She's sort of on the border of belief this year, so I don't expect to get away with it next year. It's a fun site and I've been just dying to get a chance to impress a child with it--when I found it some years ago, mine were past the age of believing in Santa Claus except in the spiritual sense.
The youngest came over and I showed her the youtube clip NORAD had up there of Santa leaving the North Pole to start his busy night. (All the clips).
I almost died laughing when they showed Santa passing the North Pole, a candy-cane striped pole in the snowy expanse and she suddenly said "There. The North Pole," in much the same tones her sister had used on the word "radar". Apparently she believes that there is an actual barber-striped pole stuck in the ground there.
I'd hate to disappoint her, does anyone know anybody who lives near the North Pole who can go put a striped post in the ground? ;)
