First snowball and first Santa encounter

Kim took Aaron to a local attraction that had lights and snow and horse drawn wagons. It was his first experience with snow and he seemed to enjoy it. He doesn't own mittens or gloves since we live in a warm climate, but Kim lent him one of her gloves. (She offered him two, but he would only wear one.)

He also got to roast his own marshmallow, which he enjoyed. It didn't actually get warm since Kim wouldn't let him get close enough to the fire. And she also didn't want to let him hold a stick near other kids for too long.

But his favorite thing seemed to be the horse that was hooked up to the wagon ride. This is by far my favorite picture.

Kim said there was a Santa there. He saw other kids going to see Santa and he wanted to go, too. Since I had said we weren't going to tell Aaron that Santa is real, she texted me to see if that was ok. That was fine with me. He doesn't really understand real/imaginary yet when it comes to characters and I'm not going to keep him away from Santa if he wants to go. So they stood in line for some time, all the while he is excited to see Santa. But when they got to the front, he announced "All done!" and instead of going up to see Santa, they kept walking on by and just waved hello to Santa. This is so characteristic of Aaron to me. She texted me what happened afterwards. We thought it was hilarious.