The sap that I am

For anyone who knows me, knows I can cry at the drop of a hat. Last Night was no exception!

J and I decided we would go out to dinner as a family. Well of course no one could decide what they wanted so we decided to go to the Mall. We figured we could all eat something different and then do a little window shopping!

We had dinner and of course it was just as crazy as you would think a family of 6 with 4 kids all under the ages of 8 would be. The people all around us were probably thrilled when we were done :). Dinner with my family is always an adventure!
Anyway, we decided to go walking around. As we were walking around we realized everyone had their Christmas decor up and working! I was kind of shocked ( why I don't know, they do it every year) that everything was up and out already. We haven't even had Thanksgiving yet. So we are walking, la di da... and Wild Man sees stickers on the floor and of course they are stickers with Santa's face and arrows pointing to his set.

Let me go back a week and tell you my sons excitement to know Santa comes to the Mall every year. He sees toys and games on TV and of course wants everything. He not only says he wants it, he yells at the top of his lungs, jumps up and down and says "Mom you hab to see dis"! It is a hoot and I LOVE it. So I tell him "hey buddy in a month Santa will be at the Mall and we can go see him and tell him all of the fun stuff you want"! He obviously has no concept of time and took that has lets get dressed and go! He put his clothes on faster than he ever has and brought me his jacket. I was so sad to tell him it will be a long time before Santa comes, I then apologized 100X's!

So back to last night... he sees the stickers. My bright idea was to follow the stickers (FYI, he is no longer by Von Maur) down past Vicotoria Secret and Gymboree. I kept saying to everyone I just want show Wild Man where Santa is going to be when he comes. Usually this is not until AFTER Thanksgiving, well this year they have him here SUPER early. He was there, talking to children. I almost died seeing him there, I wasn't prepared for him to be there. I thought they have him come on Black Friday or the Saturday after. So we are continuing to walk by, I say look buddy he is here. His eyes grew bigger than I have ever seen them before, he couldn't make his smile any bigger. Then this when the tears started building up. I didn't want anyone to see me crying over the fact that my son was seeing this Magical guy who will be bringing him great toys! He was so anxious to see and express his love for EVERY toy on T.V and in magazines. So I look away for a second for the tears to suck back into the ducts they came out of and we walk over to the side where Wild Man can have a great look at Santa. He looked at me with such excitment and shock that this was the moment... one tear rolled down my cheek. I couldn't stop saying I can't believe he is here already. So I look at J and ask him if it is ok to let him in and just talk to him ( NO pictures yet, too early). I wouldn't have even asked due to it being so early, but with my Wild Man getting dressed and handing me his jacket last week... I had to let him. So I ask him" do you want to go see him and tell him about your Dragon Castle"? He of course says "yes", so I proceed to get him out of the stroller and he freaked out. He wanted to go see Santa, but not sit on his lap or even get too close. He started crying and wanted to go home. We then get him back in the stroller and head back the way we came, lol :) The funniest thing of it all was when my Wild Man said, " Mom will you buy my Dragon Castle?". He no longer wanted anything to do with Santa!. I again filled with tears just because he is such a handsome and funny boy!