“Well,” said Zeke with an air of haughtiness, “I’m gonna find out for sure this year whether Santa is real or not. We wrote letters to Santa at school today, and I asked him for a Segway.”
A month or so ago, someone showed up at the park across from our house riding on a Segway. They very generously let Elijah and Zeke try it out, and they thought it was hilarious! Since then, they’ve been saying they’d love to get one for Christmas. They retail for about three thousand dollars, so we told them that would be just a little out of our price range!
We’ve actually never encouraged a belief in Santa for any of our kids, so I’m not sure where Zeke’s pseudo-belief in him comes from. I think it’s safe to say, though, that this year will mark the end of it!
i would like one of those too! did you try it too?
No, I didn’t…I should have gone over and tried it! I stood on our deck with Phoebe and laughed at them driving around on it. It was really, really funny.
Every time Zeke comes over he tells us that he wants a segway for Christmas. After he explained it, like 20 times, I finally understood what he was talking about. I said “Zeke, I bet that cost more than $500, are you sure you’ll get it?”. He replied with “Try, like, $5,000… and I probably won’t get it because we don’t even have that much money in the the whole bank.” Josh and I still crack up everytime he tells us about it.