Sunday, December 13, 2009

Is Santa Shopping?

We were taking the kids to the mall this weekend for a puppet show and a ballet performance in the holiday spirit. I was relaying the plans to Thatha/Paati in the car and I mentioned that Santa will be at the mall too.

MissPot overheard the conversation and asked "Amma - why is Santa at the mall? Is he shopping?"

- ha ha ha - yes he is shopping for toys! :) So we had to go into the details of How Santa was just there to play with children and tell them stories.

We ended up going to different malls on 2 different days over the weekend so MissPot's follow up question
"Amma - will the same Santa from NP mall be at the VR mall?"

hmmm - how do we answer this one?

4 comments:

Raji P. said...

ah! you've got a believer!! keep the magic!

Lakshmi said...

oh no - I don't think she believes it.. since she sees all the blow-ups and different Santas at every mall (including one who was on a drink break! :))!

Sudharsana said...

Too Smart for words. thats what she is. I dont think she is going to buy into this Santa idea for very long... gotta feeling she is already doubting it. :)

Era said...

Perhaps you could say that Santa has some helpers who dress like him so all the malls can let children who come there meet Santa. I don't have much of an answer. we were never very elaborate with Santa storiesd.